Tag Archives: Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard’s True West Explodes At New City Players

An explosion of passionate performances (and flying silverware) mark New City Players’ production of the late Sam Shepard’s True West.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Bill Hirschman
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Report From New York: Revival Of Shepard’s Fool For Love Is Tightly-Coiled Intimate Evening

A low-rent motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert has never been more claustrophobic—nor more intense—than the shabby one in which three people collide against each other in Sam Shepard’s 1983 Fool for Love, getting a superb revival by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Bill Hirschman
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Dramaworks’ Buried Child Is Harrowing Thrilling Theater

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Buried Child is not a pleasant evening of entertainment; it’s more of scathing abrasion therapy that purges the mental palate with fare that is as harrowing as a plow etching a deep gash in the land. But it is theater at its best.

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Bill Hirschman
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Palm Beach Dramaworks To Unearth Shepard’s Buried Child

Director J. Barry Lewis has a way of approaching a play like Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, the Pulitzer Prize-winning work that gets a staging by Palm Beach Dramaworks beginning March 27 and through the month of April.

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Bill Hirschman
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