Patti Smith has penned a stirring and poetic tribute to Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor who died from complications of ALS last week at age 73.

Patti Smith penned a moving and evocative tribute to her longtime friend and collaborator Sam Shepard for The New Yorker.The writer and actor died at his home in Kentucky Sunday due to ...

Last night in Brooklyn, Patti Smith gave a stunning performance in tribute to her longtime friend Sam Shepard, who died just after completing his new and final book.

During the 1970s, Shepard ran with some of the coolest and most culturally impactful figures of that era. That included poet and rock icon Patti Smith , with whom he shared a romantic relationship ...

As BroadwayWorld sadly reported yesterday, playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director Sam Shepard has passed away. Shepard, who had been ill with ALS for some time, died peacefully on ...

RIP Sam Shepard" - Screenwriter Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith on Twitter. - "So sad about the news of Sam Shepard... We still have his theater and his characters, which will live forever." ...

Sam Shepard, Patti Smith Reunite at 92nd Street Y. By . Steven Kurutz. Share. Resize "I thought this could make a good story," Sam Shepard said last night at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, ...

Following Shepard’s death, Smith penned a tribute to her friend where she discussed working on the writer’s final manuscript. “He eventually stopped picking up and leaving,” Smith wrote.

Sam Shepard, the acclaimed playwright and actor, died Thursday at his home in Kentucky from complications related to Lou Gehrig’s disease. In October 2011, Times movie critic Mark Olsen spoke to ...

Sam Shepard once said, "I could go on and on about death. One of my favorite subjects — so long as you can keep it at arm’s length." Death came for Shepard this past summer, when at age 73 the ...

Shepard was the person who convinced Patti Smith, a poet, to try standing in front of a loud and unruly group of musicians, to become a rock star. He won his first Obie Award in 1967 for “La ...