“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sam Shepard, playwright, actor and an icon of understated cool, died last week at the age of 73 due to complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. Shepard grew up on his family's avocado farm in ...

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 ...

In 1983, Sam Shepard was at the height of his powers. He’d already won a Pulitzer Prize for his play “Buried Child” (1978), and his latest, “Fool for Love,” which premiered that February at the Magic ...

Police in Illinois say actor and playwright Sam Shepard has been arrested on preliminary charges of speeding and drunken driving. Police Lt. Mark Kotte says officers stopped Shepard early Saturday in ...