The Cherry Lane Theatre, the Off-Broadway venue now owned by film studio A24, has unveiled more of its opening week programming, including events featuring Spike Lee, Sofia Coppola, Jodie Foster, Michael Shanno…

The Off-Broadway theatre will reopen its doors with a week of one-night only events.

The weeklong events will also include a staged reading of 'True West' featuring Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks and Marylouise Burke.

Manhattan Theatre Club will present the Broadway premiere of Bug, written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts, and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer. This production of Bug comes to Bro…

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced initial casting for the world premiere of The Balusters, by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon. The Baluster…

Paul Libin, the Theater Hall of Fame inductee and longtime Broadway producer who received 12 Tony Awards, including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, died on June 27 in New York Ci…

Steppenwolf Theatre Company just celebrated opening night of Noah Diaz’s Chicago premiere of You Will Get Sick. Directed by Artistic Director Audrey Francis (Noises Off, POTUS–Director), the cast features e…

Photos by Monique Carboni The show: “Curse of the Starving Class” by Sam Shepard, revived by off-Broadway’s The New Group What makes it sp…

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Sam Shepard’s powerful play about the toxic relationship between two brothers – True West – is back at the Jefferson Performing Arts’ Westwe…

Claire van Kampen, a musical director and Tony-nominated playwright who frequently worked with her husband Mark Rylance, died on January 18 in Kassel, Germany. Her daughter, Juliet Rylance, said on social media…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company will soon present a new Broadway production of Sam Shepard's Tony & Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama True West, directed by James Macdonald (The Children).

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of Sam Shepard's Tony & Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama True West, directed by James Macdonald (The Children), opened last w…

Julia May Jonas turns the menacing male siblings of Sam Shepard’s “True West” into squabbling pregnant sisters in Vermont.

Steppenwolf has long had a way with wildly dysfunctional family dramas. From Anton Chekhov’s Seagull to Sam Shepard’s True West to Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County, the off-Loop institution has shown ti…

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington has been cast in the U.K. premiere of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris. The production—which, as previously reported, Harris announced on Instagram—will have a limited run …

The Signature Theatre presentation also starred Ann Dowd and Denis O'Hare.

The reading of Sam Shepard’s contemporary classic 'True West' is directed by Steppenwolf founding member Terry Kinney. The post Ebon Moss-Bachrach, David Harbour, Ann Dowd, and Denis O’Hare Perform Reading…

Signature Theatre will present the Sam Shepard play, which will also star Ann Dowd and Denis O'Hare.

Signature Theatre today will present an all-star benefit reading of Sam Shepard’s contemporary classic True West, led by acclaimed actors Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear, Girls) as Austin, David Harbour …

A highly conceptualized production of True West at People’s Light offers striking visuals but scant drama. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

A new biography of Sam Shepard focuses on the man as an icon rather than as a writer---though, as with everything in the late dramatist's work, such delineations are never so neat.

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“True West” is a new biography of a playwright and actor who was laconic in person but spoke volumes in his work.

Town Hall theatre, GalwaySteppenwolf’s staging at Galway International Arts festival has a smart political and racial awareness as it unpicks the American myth Sam Shepard’s story of two warring brothers wa…

Sam Shepard's family feud makes an enjoyable show for theater buffs.

Main Street Players has gifted South Florida audiences with some memorable evenings such as a ferocious True West. But its current production of Rapture, Blister, Burn executed by earnest hard-working artists …

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently. Watch the New Trailer for High School Musical Series There's a face-off happening at East High in season two of High School Musical: The Music…

This Week in  Broadway History: February 2 - 8  🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭  February 2, 1966: The thriller Wait Until Dark began its 373 performance run at the Barrymore Theatre starring Lee Remick and Robert …

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently. Ethan Hawke to Release New Novel A Bright Ray of Darkness Oscar and Tony nominee Ethan Hawke, who was last seen on Broadway in the 2019 revival…

Matthew-Lee Erlbach first realized he would become an actor and a playwright when he saw “True West” on Broadway at age 14 – “It was like gods performing rituals to mortals,” he says. It took years be…

BROADWAYHD debuts a slate of Popular Titles in August with, Sam Shepard's "True West," Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and "Summer Stock" starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. August 2, 2020:  BroadwayHD, the pr…

BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming service for theater fans, today announced its hot new August lineup with popular comedy and musical titles to watch all month long! Leading the way this month is Summer Stock,…

Also announced…Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Sam Shepard’s True West head to BroadwayHD.

During this time when productions all over the world have been put on pause, we are coming together to celebrate plays that have left their mark on theater history. This week we will be focusing on the plays of…

Melbourne Theatre Company has announced the cancellation of its next six productions in a bid to ensure business continuity during this global health crisis. Berlin, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, T…

by Jason Gong. @TrashMannequin. PROVIDENCE, RI - Ticket sales have spiked for a local production of Sam Shepherd’s True West after the play’s lead actors - in a nod to the classic practice of swapping roles…

Enloe Magnet High School is the first school (and regional/community theater) to produce Jack Murphy and Frank Wildhorn's musical WONDERLAND anywhere. The Enloe Magnet High School production of WONDERLAND is po…

Church & State, about the collision of faith, politics and gun control after a school shooting, obviously could not be more timely or more resonant for South Florida audiences. Unfortunately, Main Street Pl…

You might not think “True West” and “Our Country’s Good” have much in common besides being written by white authors at either end of the ’80s. But the accident of them running in concurrent Seattle …

Emmy-winning Sopranos star Joe Pantoliano has signed on to headline William Francis Hoffman's world premiere play Drift. Bobby Moresco, an Oscar-winning screenwriter of Crash, will direct the off-Broadway produ…

Malkovich, who celebrates his birthday December 9, co-starred with Gary Sinise in the 1982 Steppenwolf production at Cherry Lane Theatre.

CYNDY A. MARION (Playwright/Director) is Producing Artistic Director of The White Horse Theater Company. A native New Yorker, Cyndy was named one of nytheatre.com's “People of the Year” for 2007. She direc…

Jennifer Tuttle is a director, actor and teaching artist. Her recent projects include: devising and directing Immigration Stories: A Celebration of the Individual and Collective Voice for The Culture Project’…

With the fearful ferocity of twin jackhammers running amok, the brothers of Main Street Players’ True West clash and crash, attack and retreat in an anguish-fueled release of pent-up frustration that their ch…

Sam Shepard’s gritty drama gets a riveting exploration in Braddock, while laughter bubbles over in the musical by the “Despicable Me’ team.

The actor-director got the nudge he needed from Bingo O’Malley before taking on the Sam Shepard play in Braddock.

12 of the Best Ensemble Acting Scenes For All Boys  Written by Tiffany Wilkie August 28, 2019 It’s competition season. You are probably looking for a powerful scene to feature your awesome boys, so we…

The Sam Shepard play begins Sept. 6 at the Black Box theater in Braddock; the new play “Dance Nation” runs Nov. 22-Dec. 15.

Steppenwolf's revival of Sam Shepard's classic play is only as potent as the sum of its parts.

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Steppenwolf Theater presents a revival of Sam Shepard's "True West," a play that originally brought the company national attention. The post Reimagining a Steppenwolf Classic: ‘True West’ appeared first on …

Perhaps you've seen him opposite Sandra Bullock in the popular new Netflix film, Bird Box, which has been gaining a lot of buzz lately, or maybe you remember him from way back in the eighties in the 1984 fi…

Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood breathe fire into Steppenwolf’s revival. If you've been banging around the Chicago theatrosphere longer than 25 seconds, you know the myth of …

The Sam Shepard classic returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company through August 25.

(left to right) David Warshofsky and Gilles GearyPhoto Credit: Joan Marcus It is doubtful whether there will be a more spectacularly stunning opening minute for any play this season....and the new season has ba…

When it was reported in late April that Rona Munro’s play My Name Is Lucy Barton was headed to Broadway, the story carried an obvious selling point: Four-time Tony nominee Laura Linney was back on the Great W…

Marylouise Burke True West and Andre De Shields Hdestown are the recipients of the annual Richard Seff Award presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation to veteran female and male character actors for the best p…

The Actors' Equity Foundation has announced Sarah Stiles and Ephraim Sykes as winners of the 2019 Clarence Derwent Awards, given to the most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan s…

Actors’ Equity Foundation will honor the two actors in June in Manhattan.

With today's opening of Beetlejuice, the Broadway 2018 - 2019 is in the record books. Actually, the season doesn't officially end until May 26th, but unofficially, the Tony Awards cut off is today. That's what …

Take, for instance, the recent Broadway production of Sam Shepard’s True West and the wreckage Ethan Hawke left behind every show. “How would anyone, save for a skilled team of crime scene cleaners, be able…

St. Louis Actors' Studio presents Sam Shepard play.

The Tony Awards administration committee met on April 11 for the third time this season to confirm the eligibility status of seven Broadway productions for the American Theatre Wing's 2019 Tony Awards. The adm…

Few match-ups of this Broadway season seemed more right from the get-go than the Roundabout Theatre Company’s True West, director James Macdonald’s staging of Sam Shepard’s 1980 play starring Ethan Hawke …

St. Louis Actors' Studio presents the play, ranked among Shepard’s finest achievements.

Boys will be boys. And, sometimes, as in the case of feuding brothers Austin and Lee in Sam Shepard’s “True West,” men will also be boys. Performance Arts at CCBC presents this American tragicomedy almost…

Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of Sam Shepard's Tony amp Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama True West, directed by James Macdonald, plays its final performance tonight, March 17, at the Americ…

The Sam Shepard play, starring Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano, wraps up its limited engagement.

While Tony Award–winning scenic designer Mimi Lien was preparing for this season’s Broadway revival of True West, Sam Shepard’s blazing account of fraternal warfare, she drew inspiration from a photo of t…

“The unfortunate thing about [stage] fights is the more you practice them, the better they get, the more out of control they can seem. … We have to work really hard to make sure we actually feel like the ot…

11 actors have taken home Tony Awards for Roundabout Theatre Company shows. Could True West's Ethan Hawke be 12?

Katharine Farmer directs Lin Blakely Eastenders Silent Witness as Bea, Michael Brandon EpisodesJerry Springer the Opera as Jorgy, Amy Burke Serial Thriller as Kate, Rob Locke NCIS, General Hospital as Larry and…

When Ethan Hawke was 14, his mother let him stay up late to watch the American Playhouse presentation of Sam Shepard’s True West, a filmed performance of original stars John Malkovich and Gary Sinise as broth…

Stage and screen great Ethan Hawke discusses taking on Sam Shepard's True West and more.

A slew of stage and screen stars—from True West's Ethan Hawke to Hillary and Clinton-bound star Laurie Metcalf to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Rachel Rachel Brosnahan—attended the Roundabout Theatre Com…

In a Roundabout revival of the nearly 40-year-old play, it holds up as a withering portrait of the myths and traps of American masculinity.

The fan-favorite musical Be More Chill had a strong start in its first week on Broadway, setting a new house record at the Lyceum Theatre. With a gross of $738,383.50, the show set a new record for a seven-perf…