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EXCLUSIVE: Aidan Quinn and Steve Buscemi are working on a movie adaptation of the Sam Shepard play Ages Of The Moon. Quinn and Buscemi are working to get the indie project off the ground and have ...
With “Fool for Love” playing at the Steppenwolf Theatre and now “A Lie of the Mind” at the thriving Raven Theatre, Chicago is having something of a Sam Shepard revival. The late ...
But this thrilling play by the late playwright Sam Shepard is more than just any old spat between former lovers. “Fool for Love” taps into all kinds of mythical tropes, including the Old West ...
Originally published in 1987 by Esquire, Shepard went to Dylan’s home in California with a six-pack of beer, a tape recorder, and multiple notebooks. Seemingly with no specific intention in mind ...
Glenn Laszlo “Bob” Weiss, a veteran of the theatre, will spotlight the work of the late Sam Shepard, an actor and an award-winning playwright, author, director, and screenwriter who died in ...
Sam Shepard's Action, the U.S. Premiere Of Little Ocean, and The Unseen Hand will wrap up their runs at The Black Box of Englewood this weekend. As noted by Jay Lustig on NJArts.net ...
Though he died less than six years ago, at the age of 73, there have already been three biographies of the playwright-actor Sam Shepard. Now we have a fourth: “True West: Sam Shepard’s Life ...
Just as he had first done as a nineteen-year-old in 1962, when he went to visit his grandparents in Illinois, Sam Shepard was again crossing America on a train. Now, however, he was, in his words ...
By Robert Greenfield In the fall of 1975, Sam Shepard — the hottest playwright on both sides of the Atlantic — returned to his new home in Northern California one day to find a note waiting ...
I first met Sam Shepard in Chicago at a rehearsal for Steppenwolf’s production of his play “Buried Child” in 1995. At the morning coffee break, over bagels and orange juice, he asked if I ...
Award-winning playwright / actor Sam Shepard and eccentric deli clerk Johnny Dark met in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and, despite leading very different lives, have remained close friends ...
when he introduces himself — there is another Sam Sheppard. That Sam Sheppard might have been pushed into high school football by his dad, although he really would’ve preferred to run track.