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

Shepard’s Academy Award–nominated turn as test pilot Chuck Yeager (in 1983’s ... He gnawed that bone until it broke. Sam Shepard, dead at 73. Long may he live in repertory.

The pilots of the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army helicopter late Wednesday night have been identified ...