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 ...

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 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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Playwright Sam Shepard was about 28, three years older than songwriter Patti Smith, when they rapidly co-wrote ...

"True West," a dark comedy centered around family ties and the mystique of the American West, opens Friday at the Willits Community Theatre. The play was written by the late Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam ...

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 ...