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List of Sam Shepard plays with descriptions, including any musicals by Sam Shepard, playwright. This Sam Shepard plays list includes promotional photos when available, as well as information about co-writers and Sam Shepard characters. This list of plays by Sam Shepard is listed alphabetically and includes art of the play's posters when ...
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Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century. [1] . He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.
- 1963–2017
- Samuel Shepard Rogers III, November 5, 1943, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, U.S.
- Mt. San Antonio College
- July 27, 2017 (aged 73), Midway, Kentucky, U.S.
Buried Child is a play written by Sam Shepard that was first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright.
- Sam Shepard
- June 27, 1978
- 1978
- Magic Theatre, San Francisco
- USA TODAY Books Editor
- Buried Child (1978) Shepard proved his writing chops by winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama with this play, which launched his career. A dysfunctional farm family in the Midwest sees the American Dream disappear, their lives shattered by alcoholism and incest.
- True West (1980) Shepard brings us another unhappy family (no two are alike). Two estranged brothers — one a screenwriter, the other a drifter and a thief — meet at their mother’s house.
- Fool for Love (1983) A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Fool for Love takes place in a favorite Shepard setting, the desert. It has echoes of other Shepard works, an alcoholic father called the Old Man, and two former lovers, reunited in a motel, who share a shocking family secret.
- A Lie of the Mind (1985) More bleakness from Shepard in this play which won the Drama Desk Award. An alcoholic father has abandoned his family. His son has tried to kill his wife.
Fool for Love (play) Fool for Love is a play written by American playwright and actor Sam Shepard. The play focuses on May and Eddie, former lovers who have met again in a motel in the desert. The play premiered in 1983 at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where Shepard was the playwright-in-residence.
- Sam Shepard
- May, Eddie, The Old Man, Martin
- 1983
- 1983
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Eleven of Sam’s plays won Obie Awards, including Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, and Curse of the Starving Class. Other award-winning plays include Fool for Love , A Lie of the Mind , True West and Buried Child , for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979.
Feb 18, 2016 · For this old house is the setting for the New Group production of “Buried Child,” Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama from 1978, which opened on Wednesday night with a cast led by a...
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