A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving ...

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as ...

Playwright, actor and director Sam Shepard has a new book of short stories, Great Dream of Heaven. Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for his ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the ...

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and ...

In a new revival of Sam Shepard’s “Curse of the Starving Class,” one cast member gets to provide comic relief and become a tragic figure without uttering a single word. Her name is Lois, and she’s a 4 ...

With “Fool for Love” playing at the Steppenwolf Theatre and now “A Lie of the Mind” at the thriving Raven Theatre, Chicago is having something of a Sam Shepard revival. The late, great bard of the ...

The 1976 track might epitomize Joni Mitchell’s prowess as a lyricist and composer, but it wouldn’t have become the song it did without playwright Sam Shepard. While both on the road for Bob Dylan’s ...

The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy. By Maya Phillips Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural ...

Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers. By Héctor Tobar “True West” is a ...