Time was when Sam Shepard was the hottest young playwright in America. From his off-off-Broadway debut with “Cowboys” in 1964 (when he was 21) to his 1979 Pulitzer Prize drama “Buried Child ...

His eyes – beautiful eyes on the beautiful face of a beautiful young actor – are completely ... Related Stories News Sam Shepard: Hollywood & Broadway Mourn Actor-Writer's Death News Meet ...

But as someone who has taught playwriting for years, I can say that, if Samuel Beckett has been the god of modern theater, Shepard has been the more accessible demigod who has inspired more young ...

Sam Shepard once said, "I could go on and on about ... the void instead filled by his own patriarchal pride in the fine young children he’d played a part in bringing into this world.

His father, Samuel Shepard Rogers, was not yet the violent alcoholic who would be such a central element in his son’s oeuvre. As a high-schooler, young Sam—or Steve, as he was known at the ...

Jessica Lange, with Hannah Shepard and Samuel Walker Shepard – the children ... from the Village Voice and Newsweek that praised the young playwright for plays that were “a form of exorcism ...

And so when Malick met Sam Shepard — a handsome young writer whose genius had already manifested itself in a series of acclaimed plays — he wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Shepard ...

Here we were, two young guys. He was Sam Shepard and I was one of the up-and-comers from New York. I’m sure there was some competition between the two of us, but I had enormous respect for him.

Sam Shepard, the experimentalist cowboy-style poet ... when Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company produced it with the young John Malkovich and Gary Sinise in a show that transferred to New ...