Sam Shepard News

Irish playwright John Austin Connolly has been awarded the inaugural David C. Horn Prize for Playwriting, presented as part of the Yale Drama Series

Wynn Handman, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The American Place Theatre was toasted by a gathering of theater and film luminaries at a reception in his honor

On April 26, 2007, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee will announce the inaugural winner of the Yale Drama Series competition -- a new annual award for emerging playwrights in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the Republic of Ireland.

Actress Deirdre O'Connell talks about her latest role at Cherry Lane Theatre.

On April 26, 2007, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goat) will announce the inaugural winner of the Yale Drama Series competition -- a new annual award for emerging playwrights in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the Republic of Ireland.

The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco has announced its 2007-2008 season.

The Third Annual PEN World Voices Fest will feature the participation of Sam Shepard, Steve Martin and Don DeLillo, among others.

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn M. Lipuma, Executive Director) announced today that it would extend August Wilson's KING HEDLEY II one additional week since the originally scheduled run has been sold-out for weeks.

Signature Theatre Company announced today that Erika Mallin has been named the company's new Executive Director

The characters and conventions of film noir get flamboyantly comical facelifts in Adrift in Macao, a new musical by Peter Melnick and Christopher Durang that, as presented by Primary Stages, will open at 59E59 Theaters on February 13th. Melnick has previously written musicals and has scored many films and TV shows, and Adrift in Macao is the talented composer's most high-profile project to date.

Theater for the New City will present 'Love 'N Courage,' the 4th annual benefit for Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program.

Peter Boyle, the versatile character actor who was known for his turn in Young Frankenstein and for his more recent work on the sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' died on December 12th, 2006 at New York Presbyterian Hospital at the age of 71

Legendary director Robert Altman has died at the age of 81

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard will appear at the 92nd St. Y Unterberg Poetry Center to read from a new work of fiction

Victoria Stewart's Live Girls, the first production of Urban Stage's 2006-2007 season, will begin previews on Monday, October 23rd toward an opening on Wendesday, October 25th

A special edition recording of Doric Wilson's And He Made a Her will coincide with the Drama Book Shop's Best Plays Book Party on November 5

Urban Stages has announced that Victoria Stewart's Live Girls will be the first production of their 2006-2007 season. The show will be directed by Lou Jacob.

While dripping in political comedy and appropriateness, Sam Shepard's 'The God of Hell,' now playing the Magic Theatre, offers a cold slap of reality a few years late.

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announce that the U.S. premiere of WRECKS, written and directed by Neil LaBute and featuring Ed Harris, has sold out for its run and will be extended for three additional weeks with performances running through November 19th. Previews began on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 in the Anspacher Theater. The press opening is Tuesday, October 10, 2006.

Buried Child returns to Off-Broadway beginning October 5th