Playwright/Actor Sam Shepard on the set of Stealth.

Magic Theatre - San Francisco

Magic Theatre has announced it will launch its 47th season with a legacy revival production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Buried Child. In 1978 the play’s world premiere was held at Magic.

The production is directed by producing artistic director Loretta Greco and will run September 11 – October 6, 2013 at Magic Theatre in San Francisco (at the Fort Mason Center).

Buried Child won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright.

Playwright/Actor Sam Shepard on the set of Stealth.
Playwright/Actor Sam Shepard on the set of Stealth.

Shepard’s play depicts the fragmentation of the American nuclear family in a context of disappointment and disillusionment with American mythology and the American dream, the 1970s rural economic slowdown and the breakdown of traditional family structures and values.

Stark Insider last covered a production of Buried Child at San Jose Stage Company where it played in 2012.

As we like to say around here: Let the show begin…

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MAGIC THEATRE

By Sam Shepard

Directed by Loretta Greco

Featuring Patrick Alparone, Denise Balthrop Cassidy, Elaina Garrity, Rod Gnapp, Patrick Jones, Lawrence Radecker, and James Wagner

September 19 – October 6, 2013

Tickets $20-65

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