Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving the ...

In Sheppard v. Maxwell, the U.S. Supreme Court set standards for how judges should manage media coverage in high-profile trials while maintaining a defendant’s right to a fair trial. In 1954, a ...

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 ...

It took 20 years before Sam Shepard’s 1980 play “True West” premiered on Broadway. In retrospect, it was a long time coming for a work considered by many a visceral depiction of sibling rivalry like ...

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 ...

Real food is rarely consumed on stage, and pre-show speeches don’t often include an explicit instruction not to walk through the performance area afterward. Both happen and may be related in Undermain ...

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 ...

Deep Ellum. Directed by Artistic Associate Christina Cranshaw, Action opens officially on Saturday, November 8, following preview performances on November 6 and 7. In Action, four friends seek solace ...

Falling in love is such a dumbfounding experience. In one way you wouldn’t trade it for the world. In another way it’s ...

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," ...

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.