I first met Sam Shepard in Chicago at a rehearsal for Steppenwolf’s production of his play “Buried Child” in 1995. At the morning coffee break, over bagels and orange juice, he asked if I liked ...

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.

Sam Shepard was a true American original. A theater and film icon who lived life on a mythic scale, Shepard became an embodiment of the fierce independence and wild freedom of the American West.

The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy. By Maya Phillips Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural ...

“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 ...