Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about how much sex is necessary to a story and which time ...

“Noises Off,” running Sept. 25-Nov. 8, opens the company’s 2025-26 lineup at its Union Square venue on the second floor of ...

John Brougher, left, and Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe in Magic Theatre’s “The Boiling.” Photo: Jay Yamada/Magic Theatre The art form might be called drama, but gentleness is a perfectly valid approach ...

It’s hard to imagine better timing for the release of Vauhini Vara’s first book of nonfiction, “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.” Recently, my Instagram feed has been filled with screenshots ...

The Fair Trade USA founder’s new book, “Every Purchase Matters,” explores how conscious consumer choices and Fair Trade practices can create global change amid rising tariffs and economic… Paul Rice ...

One good thing about Eddie Izzard’s one-person “Hamlet” is that it suggests how great Izzard (who also goes by Suzy in some contexts) would be in pretty much anything that’s not a one-person “Hamlet.” ...

The "Late Night" afterparty benefitting the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco returns to the de Young Museum Thursday, April 10. Photo: Sam Cooper Late Night returns to the de Young Museum following ...

Back in 2001, when Naomi Watts blew everyone away in her breakthrough performance in “Mulholland Drive,” you might have predicted she would go on to receive two Oscar nominations. But few could have ...

San Francisco author Jon Hickey’s debut novel centers on Mitch Caddo, a mixed-race tribal operations director navigating political and personal turmoil on a fictional Anishinaabe reservation. Jon ...

Michelle Williams is devastatingly real once this FX/Hulu show about a terminally ill woman’s fulfillment quest drops the juvenile humor. Michelle Williams, from left, and Jenny Slate play best ...

Though he grew up in a musical family, Rauw Alejandro didn’t always think life as an artist was in the cards for him. He spent most of his life as an athlete. From age 6 to 20, the Puerto Rican artist ...