The actor and writer died at 73.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright was also an acclaimed actor, whose magnetic screen presence graced such films as "Days of Heaven" and "The Right Stuff"
The actor and writer died at 73.
Last night in Brooklyn, Patti Smith gave a stunning performance in tribute to her longtime friend Sam Shepard, who died just after completing his new and final book.
Ed Harris played pool with him. Kathy Burke called him to say sorry. He gave Lynn Nottage some 3am advice and watched the chaos of 9/11 with Matthew Warchus. Theatre stars share their encounters with the great playwright
Talking about all women's topics
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Suzan-Lori Parks, Robert Woodruff, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and Loretta Greco recall what America's great bard of the West meant to them.
On re-writing the rulebook, breaking the mold, and finding liberation in dark places.
“Spy of the First Person,” published a few months after Shepard’s death, holds no answers, but reminds us why its creator was intent on seeking them all the same.
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Playwright, actor and director who exposed the gap between myth and reality in American life
Police in Santa Fe, New Mexico, arrested actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard, 71, outside a restaurant on suspicion of aggravated drunken driving after he failed a sobriety test.
An ode to the art of relationship sculpted in time.
Police in Santa Fe, New Mexico, arrested actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard, 71, outside a restaurant on suspicion of aggravated drunken driving after he failed a sobriety test.
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 straps secure his shins and forearms to the solid wooden frame of what could pass for a throne in a medieval torture chamber. His […]
“There can be a real meeting between two people at the point where they always felt marooned. Right at the edge.”
Sam Shepard is dead. America's Pulitzer-winning playwright who also was an actor and screenwriter was 73
The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor still drives cross country to most of his film sets, still raps out with his former girlfriend and best friend Patti Smith, still writes some of the best American fiction, and still acts with all the power of his Days of Heaven and The Right Stuff youth—maybe more so, according to him.
Hilton Als remembers the late playwright and actor Sam Shepard and writes about Shepard’s connection to black music.
Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in 1983's The Right Stuff
