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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sam Shepard is gone, but a new documentary "California Typewriter " captures the lauded playwright happy and in his element at work. In a clip released Tuesday by Gravitas Ventures, ...

Images of severed heads recur throughout actor Sam Shepard's new collection of short stories, "Day Out of Days." Several stories sprinkled throughout the collection deal with a man who finds a severed ...

He travelled from California to New York, taking with him the disappointment of 1960s America and changing the course of its history. Sam Shepard, the man, was born in 1943 Illinois. Son to a drunk ...

Sam Shepard, paragon playwright of the American West, was born to roam. With a father who was an Army officer and sometime farmer and a mother who was a teacher, Shepard _ born in 1943, the oldest of ...

A former New York City director and producer now living in Southwest Virginia will pay tribute to one of the giants in the film industry. Glenn Laszlo “Bob” Weiss, a veteran of the theatre, will ...

Lauded director, playwright, and actor Sam Shepard has passed away at the age of 73. BroadwayWorld first reported the news this morning. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ...

I will never forget when I first saw Sam Shepard’s play Buried Child on stage. The year was 1979, the evening was cold, the small theater in the West Village was drafty, and the stage was well heated.

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 ...

In 1974, Sam Shepard directed the debut of his play Geography of a Horse Dreamer at London’s Royal Court Theater. Irish actor Stephen Rea starred as Cody—a mysterious man, held captive in a hotel room ...