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Making Drama With a Bite

The Wall Street Journal

November 29, 2025

IN 1983, SAM SHEPARD was at the height of his powers. He'd already won a Pulitzer Prize for his play "Buried Child" (1978), and his latest, "Fool for Love,"which premiered that February at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, would go on to become his longest-running show when it moved to New York in May.

- ALEX BELTH

SMOKING Sam Shepard in 1983.

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This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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