Tag: Sam Shepard
Two sparring brothers spur ‘True West’ at City of Fairfax Theatre...
Sam Shepard's family feud makes an enjoyable show for theater buffs.
Review: ‘Simpatico’ at McCarter Theatre Center
“Do you want to talk, or do you want to be cryptic and weird?”
Those words – which sound like they might belong in a...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘This Too Comes By Hard’
No way around it, this is a dark, harsh, and gritty domestic drama. For some, it may be too dark, too harsh, too gritty,...
Review: ‘Tame.’ at Avant Bard
Audiences of all generations and emerging Millennial-aged playwrights should rejoice at Avant Bard's production of DC playwright Jonelle Walker’s TAME. Avant Bard took a...
Review: ‘Fool for Love’ at Princeton Summer Theater in Princeton, NJ
Fool for Love is a pretty short play, and its plot isn’t especially complex: A couple of longtime lovers with a volatile history meet...
Review: ‘Fool for Love’ at Port City Playhouse
Sam Shepard's 1983 one-act play, Fool for Love, is now playing at Port City Playhouse. This talented four-person cast, directed by Jon Townson, lights up the...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2015 #11: New York’s Ten Best of 2015...
It was an active year, heavily marked by new and revisited musicals. The attendance and box office numbers were good, both on and off...
‘Fool For Love’ at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City
This play by Sam Shepard was first presented by Circle Rep in 1983; it was a great success for them with Ed Harris and...
Spine: ‘Famous Puppet Death Scenes’
Gordon Craig, one of the early giants of modern theatre, provocatively wrote: "There is only one actor – nay one man – who has...
‘Famous Puppet Death Scenes’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Ready for some comic puppet anarchy? Ready for some situational, very visual humor within nearly two dozen short puppet-driven skits? Ready to indulge into,...
Spine: Who’s the Fool in ‘Fool for Love’?
Round House Theatre has opened its 2014 season with Sam Shepard's Fool for Love (1983), one of his many scripts--Curse of the Starving Class (1976), Buried...
‘Fool for Love’ at Round House Theatre
Burnished to an earthy golden, Director Ryan Rilette's absorbing, sensually deep, measured take on Sam Shepard's Fool for Love(1983) is full of the stickiness...
Round House Theatre Announces its 2014-2015 Season by Sarah Pressler
Round House Theatre announces its 2014/15 season:
FOOL FOR LOVE
By Sam Shepard
FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN
By Will Power
The NUTCRACKER
By Tommy Rapley, Jake Minton, Phillip Klapperich, and...
ARTISTIC SPOTLIGHT: An Interview with the Founder and Producing Director of...
ARTISTIC SPOTLIGHT: Ed Herendeen
“New plays are the future,” says Ed Herendeen, the Producing Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF), located in Shepherdstown,...
‘Heartless’ at Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) by Mark Dewey
Shephard’s Heartless Probes an In-between Existence
All I remember from my first encounter with Sam Shepard’s plays is that one of the characters in La...
‘The Tooth of Crime’ at WSC Avant Bard by Amanda Gunther
Sam Shepard's lost play The Tooth of Crime comes to WSC Avant Bard. Directed by Kathleen Akerley this play explores a battle of music, style, motor metaphors,...