Sona Tatoyan (foreground) with Ara Dinkjian in a developmental workshop of Golden Thread Productions' "Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)." Photo: Jared Mezzocchi / Golden Thread Productions Her ...

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 ...

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 modern fairy tale is a tricky thing, what with phones and cities and all the trappings of now that tend to suck the magic out of a story and make it impossible to suspend disbelief. But Natalia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nacho Tambunting, left, and Richard B. Watson in Capital Stage's "Everything Beautiful Happens at Night." Photo: Charr Crail You can see how narrowly Ezra’s had to live his life when he says, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...