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May 8, 2024 · By Chuck Graham. Originally published by TucsonStage.com. Come for the energy (and the laughs) but stay for the artistic insight, that’s my advice when it comes to seeing Arizona Theatre Company’s bristling smack-down production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated True West. I’ll guarantee you this – no one who watches this show thoughtfully will go […]
May 6, 2024 · By Ann Brown. Originally Published by the Arizona Daily Star. Arizona Theatre Company’s production of Sam Shepard’s True West is a powerful, poignant portrayal of family dysfunction and sibling rivalry punctuated with laugh-out-loud humor. True West which opened Friday, May 3, closes the ATC season on May 18. Prolific playwright Shepard (1943-2017) is known for […]
May 7, 2024 · Nominated for a Pulitzer, Sam Shepard’s “True West," on stage in Tucson, is a powerful, poignant portrayal of family dysfunction and sibling rivalry punctuated with laugh-out-loud humor.
May 6, 2024 · True West explodes onstage at Arizona Theatre Company. This is the single greatest piece of live theater I have ever seen. True West is the story of two estranged siblings forced to interact while one of them house-sits for their mother. Written by Sam Shepard and directed by Jenn Thompson, True West is a triumph of acting and storytelling.
May 9, 2024 · Prior to reading True West by Robert Greenfield, I’d read a decent chunk of Shepard’s work, including Motel Chronicles, Cruising Paradise, great dream of heaven, the play Simpatico, Two Prospectors — the collection of letters Shepard exchanged over forty years with his friend Johnny Dark — and the last thing Shepard wrote before passing ...
May 14, 2024 · Other award-winning plays include Fool for Love, True West, A Lie of the Mind, and Buried Child, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. In 1986, Shepard was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992. He was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame two years later.
May 5, 2024 · Written by Sam Shephard and directed by Jenn Thompson, TRUE WEST is a triumph of acting and storytelling. TRUE WEST was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and for three Tony Awards in 2000.
