Performances are July 16-August 31, 2025, in Paramount's intimate Copley Theatre, 8 E. Galena Blvd. in downtown Aurora. Nominated for four Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, True West made Chicago's ...

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.

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 ...

One of my favorite Sam Shepard monologues occurs in “True West,” his dark, 1980 dramedy in a superbly acted revival at Aurora's Paramount Theatre. It comes at the end of the first act, as rival ...

Coroner Gerber questions Sam Sheppard at the Normandy Elementary School inquest. The inquest was held after some finger pointing headlines from local newspapers. Deputy Sheriff James Kilory fiddles ...

Throughout his work, playwright Sam Shepard’s subject boils down to the ache of human need. His dialogue rarely reveals what someone’s thinking but always hints at the weight of it. It’s the stare of ...

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard was arrested Monday on suspicion of drunken driving after a Santa Fe restaurant's security complained about a possibly ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard has died from complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a representative ...

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“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 ...