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 ...

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 ...

Like happy endings? You’re not going to get one. Calling all play enthusiasts, dark comedy lovers, people with good taste and those looking to gasp and perhaps fall out of their seats! Through ...

One of my favorite Sam Shepard monologues occurs in “True West,” his dark, 1980 dramedy in a superbly acted revival at Aurora's Paramount Theatre. It comes at the end of the first act, as rival ...

Performances are July 16-August 31, 2025, in Paramount's intimate Copley Theatre, 8 E. Galena Blvd. in downtown Aurora. Nominated for four Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, True West made Chicago's ...

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 ...

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 Ghent Playhouse will present Sam Shepard’s dark comedy, True West from Friday, May 19 through Sunday, June 4 with performances Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m.

True West is a searing portrait of sibling rivalry and the fractured American dream. Set in a California suburb, the play follows Austin, a screenwriter on the verge of a big Hollywood deal, and his ...

The Ghent Playhouse presents Sam Shepard’s dark comedy,True West, which opens on Friday (May 19) and runs through Sunday, June 4 with performances Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sunday afternoons at ...

"True West," a dark comedy centered around family ties and the mystique of the American West, opens Friday at the Willits Community Theatre. The play was written by the late Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam ...

THE PROVERBIAL GUN on the wall in Sam Shepard’s True West is a loaf of bread, and it goes off in the play’s second act, when a stack of toast becomes the unlikely embodiment of years of rage and ...