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, 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 ...

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 ...

PLAY TIME — Sam Shepard's plays are almost always a little weird. His people live in a world of their own, usually hostile and dysfunctional. And so it is with "Buried Child", Shepard's Pulitzer Prize ...

In “Fool for Love,” two ex-lovers reunite one fateful night to shed plenty of bad blood. But this thrilling play by the late playwright Sam Shepard is more than just any old spat between former lovers ...

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 ...

Stepping into a character role featured in any of the plays by the late playwright Sam Shepard takes both the chosen actor and theater audiences on travels to the darkest reaches of the mind. Shepard, ...

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He was close with punk poet Patti Smith, toured with Bob Dylan and earned an Oscar nod for his portrayal of ...

These days, I can’t watch a Sam Shepard play without having my brain thronged with ghosts of Shepard viewings past. So as Chasm View’s Fool for Love unfurled in front of me, I found myself clicking ...

A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving the San Gabriel Valley without fully establishing the power of his work.