It begins with a bottle of milk. That’s what dewey-eyed cub reporter Timmy Laughlin is drinking, in the opening street scene of the opera “Fellow Travelers,” when a stranger approaches. The man, a ...

Told with attitude and snark, the book examines the team’s working-class, community-based roots. When the Quakes entered the North American Soccer League in 1974, owner Milan Mandaric, an early tech ...

Bertlin: The other scene that’s wrenching is the scene of the creature dancing with the boy and then killing him. Howard: Yeah, it’s hard to watch. Bertlin: And then again, in the design, you know, ...

When June Squibb answers the phone in one of the first scenes in her new movie “Thelma,” what she hears on the line may sound familiar to the approximately 68 million Americans who fell victim to ...

But San Francisco fans recently showed Erivo love during her one-night performance with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall. “Erivo unleashed a voice of emphatic attacks, coruscating ...

‘Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant’ By Curtis Chin (Little, Brown and Co., 304 pages, $30) Curtis Chin’s funny and touching memoir details his childhood growing up gay and ...

Frameline programmer and new Executive Director Allegra Madsen remembers one of her first San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival experiences. It was some two decades ago at the Herbst ...

He’s on Death Row at San Quentin for two murders. This S.F. dance performance advocates for his release “An Approximation of Resilience” by Alex Ketley uses dance to explore a real-life murder case ...

Fans of John Steinbeck might recognize that town as the homestead of the Joad family in “The Grapes of Wrath.” In Octavio Solis’ play, which opened Thursday, June 20, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, ...

As California residents’ rates have increased this year, so have businesses’ — including theaters, which are most active when electricity is most expensive, between 4 and 9 p.m. This year’s increase ...

In the teaser for the reboot of the “The Naked Gun” parody films, Berkeley-born director Akiva Shaffer wastes no time making a joke at the expense of the original series’ problematic cast member. In ...

Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s “Uncle Vanya” marks its first play from the theatrical canon since Johanna Pfaelzer became artistic director in 2019. Hugh Bonneville stars in “Paddington,” based on the ...