Framing his work in elemental terms of self-sufficiency, Shepard considered his analog tools: “When you go to ride a horse, ...

Coyote,” a new biography by Robert M. Dowling, recounts how the cowboy laureate of American theatre invented himself.

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

“Theater is a big bust,” Sam Shepard told Newsweek in 1967, just as his star was rising in the off-Broadway world. “Nobody is taking big chances.” It was a bold statement for Shepard, who in the years ...

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 ...

The playwright Sam Shepard was also a commanding presence on the screen. As a colleague he could be distrusting and wary.

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and what the record shows. In "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard," ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...