Theatre Review: 'Heartless' at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Sam Shepard's Heartless is perhaps his best–and definitely his most mature–play, which is not to say it is his most accessible. For it is not. In fact, though the characters resound with a mysterious authenticity"a deft mix of down-home domesticity and Hollywood's larger-than-life eccentricity"the story is as inexplicable as it is captivating, as long as one does not [...]