{"id":8540,"date":"2017-08-01T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2017-08-02T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:31:59","slug":"sam-shepard-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/01\/sam-shepard-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Shepard Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/08\/sam-shepard-has-died-at-73-1202139154\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from DEADLINE\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Broadway Will Dim The Lights For Sam\u00a0Shepard<\/h1>\n<p>by <a title=\"Posts by Jeremy Gerard\" href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/jeremy-gerard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Jeremy Gerard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/rexfeatures_5884697p.jpg?w=446&amp;h=299&amp;crop=1\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Ben Rothstein\/Warner Bros.\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Broadway, Shepard debuted with his contribution to the musical revue <em>Oh! Calcutta!<\/em> (1969) followed by<em> Operation Sidewinder<\/em> (1970), a revival of <em>Oh! Calcutta!<\/em>(1976), <em>Buried Child<\/em> (1996), <em>True West<\/em> (2000), and <em>Fool for Love<\/em> (2015). He received Tony Award nominations in 2000 for <em>True West<\/em> and 1996 for <em>Buried Child<\/em>, for which he had earlier been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSam Shepard was a prolific storyteller who created provocative, thoughtful, and exciting work for Broadway, off-Broadway, and film. His original voice was a definite draw for audiences and had an undeniable influence on other artists,\u201d said Charlotte St. Martin, President of the Broadway League. \u201cHe will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>PREVIOUSLY<\/strong> <strong>with more information:<\/strong> Sam Shepard, whose snaggle-toothed smile, craggy good looks and outlaw style as actor and writer made him an American icon in the mold of Gary Cooper and Marlon Brando, died July 27 at home in Kentucky. He was 73 and had been suffering from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease. He was surrounded by family at the time of his death, according to Chris Boneau, a family spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, author, screenwriter and director, Shepard\u00a0was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in Philip Kaufman\u2019s 1983 film\u00a0<em>The Right Stuff<\/em>.\u00a0The author of 44 plays, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for\u00a0<em>Buried Child\u00a0<\/em>and was best known for such works as <em>Fool for Love<\/em>,\u00a0<em>True West <\/em>and<em> A Lie of the Mind<\/em>. In 2009 he was named\u00a0the PEN\/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/08\/sam-shepard-has-died-at-73-1202139154\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at DEADLINE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from DEADLINE\u00a0 Broadway Will Dim The Lights For Sam\u00a0Shepard by Jeremy Gerard Ben Rothstein\/Warner Bros.\/REX\/Shutterstock On Broadway, Shepard debuted with his contribution to the musical revue Oh! Calcutta! (1969) followed by Operation Sidewinder (1970), a revival of Oh! Calcutta!(1976), Buried Child (1996), True West (2000), and Fool for Love (2015). He received Tony Award nominations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}