Everything about 'Chicago' suggests we're in the company of young, 1960's radical theater types who want to disorient if not shock themselves and the audience, thus to rediscover the primal …

Sam Shepard was born on November 5, 1943, in the Chicago suburb of Fort Sheridan, Illinois. [5] He was named Samuel Shepard Rogers III after his father, Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr. …

Sam Shepard The Beckettian dilemma of Stu, puppet and demiurge ensconced in his bathtub, moves from his particular problem (his lover is leaving him) to the threat posed to the human …

Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard, who died at age 73 of complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease, was the bard of America’s flat highways, wide-open spaces and wounding, dysfunctional families.

He was a dynamic and prolific writer, winning his first Obie Awards for Best Distinguished Play in 1966 for Chicago, Icarus's Mother, and Red Cross.

Chicago is a play of vivid stage imagery, slippery symbols and an unbridled indulgence of imagination. It possesses the barest outline of recognizable reality…. [I] think Mr....

One-act play. A 20-ish man named Stu sits in a bathtub wearing only a pair of jeans, while his girlfriend Joy makes preparations to leave for Chicago, where she has taken a new job. …

Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943, Fort Sheridan, near Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.—died July 27, 2017, Midway, Kentucky) was an American playwright and actor whose plays adroitly …

What gives the play its delights is Mr. Shepard's ability to follow fast after the ephemeral half-thought that is usually unspoken…. The ending—in which the hero's private world...

May 17, 2018 · Sam Shepard (Samuel Shepard Rogers VII; born 1943) began his career as a playwright in the livelyoff-off-Broadway scene of the 1960s and became one of the United …