Hollywood is mourning the death of Sam Shepard after his death of complications from ALS. He was 73. Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

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 ...

Sam Shepard has died, and American theater has lost one of its last remaining giants. Shepard is the author of dozens of plays, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Buried Child (1978 ...