Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard’s most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed “Shepard Country”–a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies.
FOOL FOR LOVE * ANGEL CITY * GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER * ACTION * COWBOY MOUTH * MELODRAMA PLAY * SEDUCED * SUICIDE IN Bb
With an Introduction by Ross Wetzsteon
“Sam Shepard is phenomenal…the best practicing American playwright.” —
The New Republic
“Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage.” –Marsha Norman
“The most ruthlessly experimental and uncompromising of today’s young writers.” –John Lahr
“Sam Shepard fills the role of professional playwright as a good ballet dancer or acrobat fulfills his role in performance. That is, he always delivers, he executes feats of dexterity and technical difficulty that an untrained person could not, and makes them seem easy.” –Michael Feingold,
The Village Voice
“One of the most original, prolific, and gifted dramatists at work today.” —
The New Yorker
“Increasingly recognized as one of the more significant dramatists in the English-speaking world.” –Charles R. Bachman,
Modern Drama
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Hi, I'm Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard (1943-2017) was a playwright, actor, author, screen writer, and director whose work is performed on and off Broadway and in other theaters across the country. In 1979, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Buried Child. In 1983, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff. His other famous works include True West, A Lie of the Mind, and Curse of the Starving Class. His two books published by City Lights are Motel Chronicles (1982) and Fool for Love (1983).
