“Anora,” Sean Baker’s raunchy screwball comedy about a sex worker whose dangerous adventure begins when she elopes with the ...

In his often charming but oddly coy new book, Callum Robinson, a woodworker of some renown in his native Scotland, takes us inside his shop near Edinburgh, where his team builds custom-made furniture ...

Bay Area-raised film director Jon M. Chu skipped two scheduled Bay Area screenings of his smash-hit musical “Wicked” because he and his family were fleeing the wildfires that have engulfed Southern ...

It’s quite a day former boxing champ, jailbird and recovering alcoholic “Irish” Mikey Flannigan has in “Day of the Fight.” Played soulfully and as subtly as a role so back-loaded with trauma could be ...

In ‘I Might be in Trouble,’ author Daniel Aleman follows a struggling writer who’s exceptionally good at making all the wrong decisions. "I Might Be in Trouble" by Daniel Aleman. Photo: Grand Central ...

On Aug. 9, 1980, two teens — 19-year-old Kelly Drew and Timothy Hack — went missing after a wedding at the Concord House, an event venue just outside Watertown, Wis. They were supposed to meet up with ...

The Oscar- and Grammy-winning comedian comes clean in “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was …” But he doesn’t just reveal the nature of the 2023 medical emergency that almost took his life on his new ...

No holiday experience can be complete without a contemplation of the past. The 4 Star Theater is providing a chance for people to come together in that spirit, with a program that includes a screening ...

The young Donald Trump drama “The Apprentice” also landed nominations for its two central performances, by Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. Karla Sofia Gascon, of Spain, winner ...

Turns out the theatrical quality meter is a circle, not a spectrum. A show can be so dumb that it crosses over a threshold, like a swing ride that loops over the top of the set, and actually gets kind ...

American Bach Artistic Director Jeffrey Thomas has conducted Handel’s “Messiah” in Grace Cathedral almost every year since 1998. Photo: American Bach When baritone Jesse Blumberg was a teenager in ...

We were supposed to finally get a better holiday show at American Conservatory Theater, now that it’s put its long-running “Christmas Carol” out to pasture. A few moments in “A Whynot Christmas Carol” ...