Photo: Curse of the Starving Class stars, from left, Christian Slater and Calista Flockhart. Photo courtesy of Monique ...

Fifty years apart, the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard examine our national obsession with family inheritance.

Directed by Scott Elliot, the revival of "Curse of the Starving Class" is funny, strange, dramatic, explosive — and not very ...

Sam Shepard's drama about the aftermath of a horrific incident of domestic violence gets a stirring revival at Raven.

Muscular, gritty, blistering — they’ve all been used often to define Chicago theater. And while they might be cliche, Raven Theatre’s incendiary production of Sam Shepard’s violently intense “A Lie of ...

Give that sheep an Obie Award. Rarely have I felt so concerned for a live performing creature as I did watching the excellent ...

First produced in 1977, three years before Ronald Reagan was elected president, ‘Curse’ has only gained power as an ...

The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy.

Reviews are in for Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class at The New Group, starring  David Anzuelo, Kyle Beltran, Calista ...

I found Steppenwolf’s “Fool for Love” overly styled and tentative, but that’s far from the case with director Azar Kazemi’s ...

Sam Shepard's A LIE OF THE MIND follows two families ... Shepard's plays dig deep into the ideas of family, destiny, and American idealism. Raven's production, directed by Azar Kazemi, deepens ...