The Time Sam Shepard Taught Playwriting Way Out West
Recruited by Padua Hills Playwrights founder Murray Mednick, Shepard joined an ad-hoc faculty in 1978 for the experimental workshop. Among his pupils: a young David Henry Hwang.
All Stories About Sam Shepard
This Month in Theatre History
2 auspicious births (Al Pacino, Bill Irwin), a Shepard premiere, a ‘Hedwig’ closing, and a Covid anniversary.
This Month in Theatre History
From early-1900s Florida to 1930s-era Seattle, theatremakers both practical and idealistic clocked some milestones.
Why We’re Back in Print
A hard-copy magazine about this ephemeral art form can mark its progress over time like no other medium.
What’s True in ‘True West’?
A new biography of Sam Shepard focuses on the man as an icon rather than as a writer—though, as with everything in the late dramatist’s work, such delineations are never so neat.
Wynn Handman, Unflappable Off-Broadway Champion
With his American Place Theatre and his teaching, he launched countless essential theatrical careers, though he was humble to a fault.
‘True West’: Sam Shepard’s Super Smash Brothers
In a Roundabout revival of the nearly 40-year-old play, it holds up as a withering portrait of the myths and traps of American masculinity.
Signature Season to Include Its First Musical, From Dave Malloy
Also on the slate are two comedies by Lynn Nottage and revivals of work by former resident playwrights Athol Fugard, Will Eno, and Sam Shepard.
Streep and Shepard: 2 Straight Arrows Ascending
Sam Shepard and Meryl Streep both made defining marks on New York stages before wandering afield.
Sam Shepard: Mystery and Magic, Freedom and Fire
Suzan-Lori Parks, Robert Woodruff, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and Loretta Greco recall what America’s great bard of the West meant to them.
