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 ...

The cast of 'Action' by Undermain Theatre. (Photos courtesy Undermain) Undermain Theatre opened Sam Shepard’s Action on Nov. 6, an early play by the prolific writer. At less than an hour, a whole lot ...

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 ...

At one point in "Action" at Undermain Theatre, Shooter (Taylor Harris), right, acts like a dancing bear to the astonishment of the other characters trapped in a house with him. Paul Semrad Real food ...

Patti Smith’s album début album, “Horses,” came out fifty years ago, on November 10, 1975, launching her to stardom almost overnight. An anniversary reissue came out this year, to rapturous reviews.

“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 ...

“I was obsessed with wearing the same leather jacket over and over for so many years, with these chinos,” the actress tells PEOPLE Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

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," ...

In 1967, I stepped out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal with a plaid suitcase. My desire was to become an artist. Perhaps I lacked the necessary skills, but I had the willingness to develop them, ...

Diane Keaton never really played the part of glamorous movie star. She was in iconic films and she dated some of the biggest stars of her generation, and yet she somehow remained other and defiantly ...

In writer-director Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” out Oct. 10 from A24, Christian Slater is more heard than seen. His raspy voice — familiar from a host of memorable movies, from ...