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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Val Kilmer once proclaimed that he’s almost been fired from all his movies. Thankfully for us, he wasn’t. Though he might have frustrated more than a few directors, they too knew the headaches were ...

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 ...

The country’s first openly transgender choreographer brings his acclaimed company back to San Francisco with a program celebrating LGBTQ personal histories. Sean Dorsey at Dance Mission Theater in San ...

March Madness, the annual men’s NCAA national basketball championship tournament, is coming to the Bay Area this week. On Thursday, March 27, Chase Center will host a Sweet 16 matchup between Arkansas ...