A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving ...

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 ...

You can’t go home again — but you never can escape it, either. Such is the maddening paradox of family ties imprisoning the characters in the late Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child” at A Noise Within. With ...

Sam Shepard, scribe of the angst-ridden American prairie, was the playwright who made Steppenwolf’s bones. In 1982, the theater company’s signature staging of his “True West” was the apotheosis of a ...

“True West” is a new biography of a playwright and actor who was laconic in person but spoke volumes in his work. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

Every time I see a fair-to-middling production of a brilliant play by the irreplaceable Sam Shepard, who died in 2017, at the age of seventy-three, I leave the theatre with conflicted feelings. On the ...

With “Fool for Love” playing at the Steppenwolf Theatre and now “A Lie of the Mind” at the thriving Raven Theatre, Chicago is having something of a Sam Shepard revival. The late, great bard of the ...