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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK-- Celebrities are taking to social media to react to the shocking news of actor-playwright Sam Shepard's death. Shepard died last week at age 73. Fellow entertainers and co-stars alike shared ...

Philip Kaufman recalls the playwright and actor, who received an Oscar nomination for playing legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager. By Philip Kaufman, as told to Gregg Kilday In the early ‘80s, ...

When news arrived Monday of the passing of Sam Shepard, the line Hamlet says of his late father — "I shall not look upon his like again" — came to mind. Indeed, Shepard was an American original whose ...

Sam Shepard, the acclaimed playwright and actor, died Thursday at his home in Kentucky from complications related to Lou Gehrig’s disease. In October 2011, Times movie critic Mark Olsen spoke to ...

SPY OF THE FIRST PERSON, by Sam Shepard. Alfred A. Knopf, 82 pp., $18. It is impossible to dissociate Sam Shepard’s latest and last book, “Spy of the First Person,” from how and when it was written.

In the black-and-white photo, Richard Gere is stiff-backed, his muscles tensed, booted feet flat on the slightly raised platform. He’s wearing jeans and a T-shirt, the short sleeves rolled up. Leather ...

Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers. By Héctor Tobar “True West” is a ...

Jessica Lange, with Hannah Shepard and Samuel Walker Shepard – the children, now grown, that she had with Sam Shepard – entered the Ellen Stewart Theatre quietly as an audience of age-burnished talent ...