Although he brought a laconic cowboy style to his screen roles, Sam Shepard wore a number of different hats: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor, screenwriter and director.

“Theater is a big bust,” Sam Shepard told Newsweek in 1967, just as his star was rising in the off-Broadway world. “Nobody is taking big chances.” It was a bold statement for Shepard, who in the years ...

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The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy. By Maya Phillips Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural ...