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 ...

Although he brought a laconic cowboy style to his screen roles, Sam Shepard wore a number of different hats: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor, screenwriter and director.

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 ...

Sam Mendes once spoke about one of the films that had a lasting impact on him as a filmmaker. On the BBC podcast This ...

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, ...

Town Hall Theatre Company will present True West, written by Sam Shepard and directed by Katja Rivera, will begin previews on June 5. The show will open on June 7 and run through June 28.

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 ...

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 ...

Joni Mitchell's "Coyote" might epitomize her writing prowess, but the song wouldn't be what it is today without Sam Shepard.

The play marks a series of returns for Shepard: to New York, where he hasn’t staged a play in four years; to the Public Theater, where he hasn’t worked since the premiere of “Simpatico” in ...