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.

“Theater is a big bust,” Sam Shepard told Newsweek in 1967, just as his star was rising in the off-Broadway world. “Nobody is taking big chances.” It was a bold statement for Shepard, who in the years ...

Sam Shepard, the preeminent US playwright of his generation celebrated for depicting a darkness to contemporary American life and Oscar-nominated actor, has died. He was 73.

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 ...

In 1983, Sam Shepard was at the height of his powers. He’d already won a Pulitzer Prize for his play “Buried Child” (1978), and his latest, “Fool for Love,” which premiered that February at the Magic ...

Give that sheep an Obie Award. Rarely have I felt so concerned for a live performing creature as I did watching the excellent, ferociously intense New Group revival of Sam Shepard’s 1977 ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Aidan Quinn and Steve Buscemi are working on a movie adaptation of the Sam Shepard play Ages Of The Moon. Quinn and Buscemi are working to get the indie project off the ground and have ...

Resurrection Theatre will present Sam Shepard's provocative dark comedy "The God of Hell," opening February 28, 2025 at The Wilkerson Theatre, 2509 R Street, Sacramento, CA 95816. This politically ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy. By Maya Phillips When a member of ...

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 American West, has ...