Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best.

One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today.-The New Yorker

The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society.-New York Magazine

If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard.-Time

Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage.-Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of 'Night, Mother.

One of our best and most challenging playwrights...his plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape.-Newsweek

His plays are stunning in thier originality, defiant and inscrutable.-Esquire

Sam Shepard is phenomenal..the best practicing American playwright.-The New Republic