It took 20 years before Sam Shepard’s 1980 play “True West” premiered on Broadway. In retrospect, it was a long time coming for a work considered by many a visceral depiction of sibling rivalry like ...

In the unlikely setting of a small civic theater in downtown Aurora, director Jim Corti and crew are staging what appears to be an ongoing series of very intense and distinctive versions of 20th ...

The late playwright Sam Shepard was more verbose than most in his written staging directions for his plays. For his Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1983 play “True West,” he specified in the script the color ...

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He was close with punk poet Patti Smith, toured with Bob Dylan and earned an Oscar nod for his portrayal of ...

The play "True West" can lay claim to many distinctions: More beer is swilled by just two characters … more stolen toasters stack up … and more histrionics occur in a kitchen than in probably any ...