Fool for Love is a play written by American playwright and actor Sam Shepard. The play focuses on May and Eddie, former lovers who have met again in a motel in the desert. The play premiered in 1983 at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where Shepard was the playwright-in-residence. The play was a finalist for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Fool for Love: Directed by Robert Altman. With Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid. May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from.

Fool for Love is a 1985 American psychological drama film directed by Robert Altman, and starring Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid, and Martha Crawford.

Jan 30, 2025 · Perhaps the sexiest, most haunting play of the 20th century, Fool for Love is a twisted, tequila-soaked love letter from one of the greatest American playwrights, indulging the need to get inside someone just to tear them apart.

3 days ago · The play also has to compete with the memory of Robert Altman’s 1985 film version of “Fool for Love,” which, despite flopping at the box office, understood this landscape and gave these two ...

6 days ago · Hold on tight—FOOL FOR LOVE is extending! Our searing revival of Sam Shepard's masterpiece is now playing thru March 23. This visceral, emotional gut punch e...

Eddie, an old flame and childhood friend, finds her there and threatens to drag her back into the life from which she had fled. Reality and dream; truth and lies; past and present mingle in an explosive, emotional experience. Shepard wrote Fool …

4 days ago · Steppenwolf triumphs again with 'Fool for Love,' a play perfectly suited for theater's acting artistry Company veteran Caroline Neff and newcomer Nick Gehlfuss perfectly inhabit the volatile ...

Perhaps the sexiest, most haunting play of the 20th century, Fool for Love is a twisted, tequila-soaked love letter from Sam Shepard, one of the greatest American playwrights, indulging the need to get inside someone just to tear them apart.

Nov 13, 2024 · Fool for Love will play January 30 – March 16, 2025 in Steppenwolf’s Downstairs Theater. Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced full casting for its revival of Sam Shepard ’s dark...