Shepard is the author of dozens of plays ... He gnawed that bone until it broke. Sam Shepard, dead at 73. Long may he live in repertory.

Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the ...

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He was close with punk poet Patti Smith, toured with Bob Dylan and earned an Oscar nod for his portrayal ...

Sam Shepard, scribe of the angst-ridden American prairie, was the playwright who made Steppenwolf’s bones. In 1982, the theater company’s signature staging of his “True West” was the ...

Fool for Love” — 4 stars In “Fool for Love,” two ex-lovers reunite one fateful night to shed plenty of bad blood. But this ...

It fuels the simmering tensions between brothers Austin and Lee in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard’s popular 1980 drama “True West.” Austin is an Ivy League-educated writer ...