Considered Sam Shepard’s signature masterpiece, True West premiered on July 10, 1980 at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where Shepard was a resident playwright. Robert Woodruff directed Peter Coyote and Jim Haynie in the lead roles. Shepard wanted to write a play about “double nature” and the devastating ways people can be two-sided.
The production opened off-Broadway at The Public Theater in December 1980 with Tommy Lee Jones and Peter Boyle. In 1982, Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre staged a landmark production starring then-unknown actors Gary Sinise and John Malkovich. That production
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