Sam Shepard

Off-Broadway Review: “Curse of the Starving Class” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater

Sam Shephard’s iconic 1977 “Curse of the Starving Class” is enjoying its second revival production at The Pershing Square Signature Center. The 2019 Terry Kinney revival (also at Pershing Square Signature Center) starred Maggie Siff and David Warshofsky as Ella and Weston. The current revival, directed by Scott Elliott and starring Calista Flockhart as Ella and Christian Slater as Weston,…

Off-Broadway Review: Ice Factory’s “True Right” at the New Ohio Theatre

July 15, 2017 | Off-Broadway > | "True West", Adin Lenahan, Angie Nortz, Bailey Bretz, Barbara Bush, Ben Gullard, Brittany K. Allen, Gemma Kaneko, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Ice Factory, Lauryn McCarter, New Ohio Theatre, Sam Shepard, Yoshi Nomura

Originally devised by Bess and George, “True Right” is a scrappy and loose retelling of Sam Shepard’s tale of sibling rivalry “True West” without the grit and depth and requisite existential core of the original play. Written by and featuring Gemma Kaneko, Brittany K. Allen, and Adin Lenahan, “True Right” is the third installment in the New Ohio Theatre’s Ice…

“Fool for Love” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed December 6, 2015)

October 10, 2015 | Broadway, fool for love > | "Fool for Love", Manhattan Theatre Club, Sam Shepard

Manhattan Theatre Club rolls out a kinder, gentle, more cerebral “Fool for Love” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre with bruises more internal and spiritual than external and physical. Self-discovery on a dualistic battlefield is, after all, more cerebral though the wounds no less severe and long-lasting. True seekers often wrestle with demons in the desert and it is in…