Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving the San Gabriel Valley without fully establishing the power of his work.