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Review: Steppenwolf’s Fool For Love Perfects Sam Shepard’s Haunting Work

The script of Sam Shepard’s romantic drama Fool For Love begins with the stage direction, “This play is be performed relentlessly, without a break.” The superb actors at Steppenwolf Theatre […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • February 11, 2025
    • Lit , Nonfiction , Stages , Theater

    Review: Sam Shepard, an Unreliable Narrator of His Own Life, Gets a New Biography by Robert Greenfield

    It’s appropriate that True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work and Times by Robert Greenfield ends with the 2019 Broadway staging of True West, Shepard’s iconic play about the American West, manhood and brotherhood. […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 2, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: AstonRep Mounts an Appropriately Bleak Production of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child

    There’s nothing more satisfying than a sharply directed and well-acted production of a Sam Shepard play. Shepard’s America is middle America at its seamy, seedy worst with family secrets, lies […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 25, 2022
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: True West, a True Time Capsule at Steppenwolf Theatre

    The play that launched Chicago’s lauded ensemble returns to the substantially larger stage for the first time since 1982. Sam Shepard’s True West propelled the Highland Park High School and […]

  • Karin McKie
  • July 18, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    New York Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in a True West That Flips the American Dream

    True West, Roundabout Theatre’s staging of the Sam Shepard play, stars two fine actors—Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano. It’s a play that descends from brotherly rivalry to rage and chaos, […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 15, 2019
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    There’s Little Brotherly Love But Plenty of Poteen in The Lonesome West by AstonRep

    The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh is a story of two Irish brothers, locked in a codependent relationship of affection and hatred (mostly the latter). Throughout the course of the 100-minute […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 23, 2018
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