The actor died of complications from ALS -- a disease he battled privately in his final years Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

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.

The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy. By Maya Phillips Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural ...

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 ...

"We compliment each other. It's not that you need to be the same, it's just that you need to fit." Oscope Labs has revealed a new trailer for the documentary film Shepard & Dark, which originally ...

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, Work, and ...

Sam Shepard, the experimentalist cowboy-style poet who became one of the most significant American playwrights of the 20th century, honored with the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play "Buried ...

If you're a fan of the iconic Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, you might be disappointed that the film never got a traditional sequel. Though many actors along the way have taken up the ...

He won the Pulitzer Prize for his play, 'Buried Child,' was nominated for an Oscar for his role in 'The Right Stuff' and recently appeared on Netflix's 'Bloodline.' By Duane Byrge, Hilary Lewis Sam ...