Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West
Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theater. And here are seven of his very best.
"One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."
-The New Yorker
"The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society."
-New York Magazine
"If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard."
-Time
"Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage."
-Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of 'Night, Mother.
"One of our best and most challenging playwrights...his plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape."
-Newsweek
"His plays are stunning in thier originality, defiant and inscrutable."
-Esquire
"Sam Shepard is phenomenal..the best practicing American playwright."
-The New Republic
