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 ...

Coroner Gerber questions Sam Sheppard at the Normandy Elementary School inquest. The inquest was held after some finger pointing headlines from local newspapers. Deputy Sheriff James Kilory fiddles ...

Performances are July 16-August 31, 2025, in Paramount's intimate Copley Theatre, 8 E. Galena Blvd. in downtown Aurora. Nominated for four Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, True West made Chicago's ...

One of my favorite Sam Shepard monologues occurs in “True West,” his dark, 1980 dramedy in a superbly acted revival at Aurora's Paramount Theatre. It comes at the end of the first act, as rival ...

Deep Ellum. Directed by Artistic Associate Christina Cranshaw, Action opens officially on Saturday, November 8, following preview performances on November 6 and 7. In Action, four friends seek solace ...

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard was arrested Monday on suspicion of drunken driving after a Santa Fe restaurant's security complained about a possibly ...

Real food is rarely consumed on stage, and pre-show speeches don’t often include an explicit instruction not to walk through the performance area afterward. Both happen and may be related in Undermain ...

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and what the record shows. In "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard," ...

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.

“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 ...