The late Sam Shepard wrote to a friend about popping the ... “terrible sadness” that consumed him after he left his first wife and son for the actress. The actor, author and playwright ...

In a new revival of Sam Shepard’s “Curse of the Starving Class,” one cast ... The patriarch, Weston, played here by Christian Slater, is an alcoholic prone to fits of violence; his wife, Ella, ...

Forty-five years after a jury convicted Dr. Sam Sheppard of bludgeoning his wife to death in his home, the Ohio courts will once again hear testimony in a Sheppard trial. In January 2000 ...

Sam Shepard’s “Curse of the Starving Class ... Ella (Calista Flockhart) is his fed-up wife who wants to leave him and move to Europe; Wesley (Cooper Hoffman) is the son who serves as ...