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 ...
Los Angeles Times: Sam Shepard made stardom look easy — his demons got in the way
“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 made stardom look easy — his demons got in the way
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died on Thursday at his home in Kentucky. He was 73. Chris Boneau, a spokesperson for Shepard's family, tells CNN he died ...
Sam Shepard wasn’t born a cowboy. The actor and writer made himself into one. The dusty blue jeans, cattle drives, and folksy drawl suited his taciturn profile, giving Reagan-era America someone ...
Yahoo: Sam Shepard made stardom look easy — his demons got in the way
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving the ...
Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer-winning play, Buried Child, is a choking, claustrophobic drama about menace, secrets, incest, insanity, and estrangement. Staged with five antagonists in an Illinois ...
BroadwayWorld: Buried Child, the Pulitzer Prize winning play, written by by Sam Shepard at Old Academy Players