True West” — 4 stars One of my favorite Sam Shepard monologues occurs in “True West,” his dark, 1980 dramedy in a superbly ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author Sam Shepard, once a familiar figure on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall and the Corner when he lived in Albemarle ...

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 ...

In the fall of 1975, Sam Shepard — the hottest playwright on both sides of the Atlantic — returned to his new home in Northern California one day to find a note waiting for him that said Bob ...

Shepard kept returning to the troubled backwaters that nearly everyone on the coasts has lately come to call, patronizingly, forgotten America. But Shepard plays are back in season, and they are ...

Sam Shepard, the Oscar-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who premiered many of his works at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, died Thursday at his home in Kentucky.

Sam Shepard, playwright and director of "The Late Henry Moss," is photographed during an interview in San Francisco, Nov. 10, 2000. Shepard treads familiar ground in his latest three-act, three-hour ...

When I read that Sam Shepard died, I called my friend Richard Warren. I knew that Richard, a playwright himself and a deep thinker, would understand why I wanted to talk about how the loss of ...

Broadway will dim its lights for Sam Shepard on Wednesday night, a gesture that, if he’s looking down on Times Square from that big ranch in the sky, should bring a wry smile to his weathered ...

Matthew McConaughey’s reaction to first hearing about the death of acclaimed playwright and actor Sam Shepard was caught on camera while the actor was on the red carpet for his upcoming film ...