Just as he had first done as a nineteen-year-old in 1962, when he went to visit his grandparents in Illinois, Sam Shepard was again crossing America on a train. Now, however, he was, in his words, "On ...

Though he died less than six years ago, at the age of 73, there have already been three biographies of the playwright-actor Sam Shepard. Now we have a fourth: “True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and ...

Samuel Shepard Rogers III, known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an influential American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author, and musician whose career spanned over five decades.

"We compliment each other. It's not that you need to be the same, it's just that you need to fit." Oscope Labs has revealed a new trailer for the documentary film Shepard & Dark, which originally ...

Sam Shepard, the preeminent US playwright of his generation celebrated for depicting a darkness to contemporary American life ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard has died from complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a representative ...

I first met Sam Shepard in Chicago at a rehearsal for Steppenwolf’s production of his play “Buried Child” in 1995. At the morning coffee break, over bagels and orange juice, he asked if I liked ...

PLAY TIME — Sam Shepard's plays are almost always a little weird. His people live in a world of their own, usually hostile and dysfunctional. And so it is with "Buried Child", Shepard's Pulitzer Prize ...

If you're a fan of the iconic Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, you might be disappointed that the film never got a traditional sequel. Though many actors along the way have taken up the ...

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 ...

An exclusive excerpt from a new biography of Shepard reveals how bottomless booze, copious cocaine, a fling with Joni Mitchell, and a collision with an enigmatic superstar proved too much for the ...