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.
All Stories About Sam Shepard
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.
Running Off With Sam
It started with acting exercises. Then in one night my life changed.
Myths Mix in Plays by Parks, Shepard and Kneehigh
Playwrights superimpose ancient myths over contemporary concerns, in a theatrical alchemy that makes the old seem new again—and the new seem timeless.
This Month in Theatre History
Check out what happened in theatres across the country many Octobers ago!
