NEW YORK - 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 ...

Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died on Thursday at his home in Kentucky. He was 73. Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin’s “Tongues and Savage Love,” featuring Estelle Parsons, David Strathairn and Jack DeJohnette, will take place on Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. and Sept. 23 at 3 p ...

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 ...