A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving ...

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 ...

Although he brought a laconic cowboy style to his screen roles, Sam Shepard wore a number of different hats: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor, screenwriter and director.

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 ...

The actor died of complications from ALS -- a disease he battled privately in his final years Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

Playwright, actor and director Sam Shepard has a new book of short stories, Great Dream of Heaven. Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for his ...

NEW YORK-- Celebrities are taking to social media to react to the shocking news of actor-playwright Sam Shepard's death. Shepard died last week at age 73. Fellow entertainers and co-stars alike shared ...

Sam Shepard's ex-partner and former collaborator Jessica Lange had opened up about the late actor and playwright's style of humour in an article that was published the same day his death was announced ...

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and ...

The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy. By Maya Phillips Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural ...