Rock-and-roll Jesus with a cowboymouth (revisited); Sam Shepard gets personal with American Theatre once again--20 years later.(Biography)
American Theatre, April, 2004 by Shewey, Don
"SO, WHAT ARE WE UP TO HERE?"
It doesn't take long for Sam Shepard to get to the heart of the matter--casually, directly, existentially. Here we are, in a restaurant in downtown St. Paul, Minn., on a cold and gray November afternoon. What we're up to is an interview, obviously, though the occasion is a little murkier than usual. A playwright of Shepard's stature ordinarily sits down for a major interview only when there's a new project to promote. As it happens, shepard does have a new play, but he's not quite finished writing it, and it won't be produced until the ...
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