Robert Pattinson credits the Oakland native with helping him through a scene that drove him “crazy for three days.” ...

The “Shrinking” and “How I Met Your Mother” star to get TV Performance of the Year Award at the April 24-27 event celebrating podcasts, series, films and social content. Actor, writer and producer ...

If TheatreWorks and Center Rep’s world premiere more galumphs than fizzes, failing to root for it anyway would be like cheering against true love. Vicki (Lucinda Hitchcock Cone, left), Larry (Michael ...

This movie, which stars Jack Quaid, is about a man who doesn’t feel pain, but its makers sure want you to feel it. Nathan (Jack Quaid) is on the run in “Novocaine,” an action comedy directed by Dan ...

The Berkeley City Club is always an up-close-and-personal venue, but it’s a special thrill when actors’ necks are bulging and steaming to lift giant weights. Clark (Andre Amarotico, left) and Nolan ...

"Stuff: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos" by Kim Hastreiter. Cover art by Jim Joe. Photo: Jim Joe Kim Hastreiter has lived an extraordinary, only-in New York life as the co-founder of the beloved ...

Isn’t someone going to do something? It’s a refrain we’ve been hearing quite a bit lately. That feeling of exasperation – and what happens when the despairing find common cause – permeates the ...

Baritone Craig Irvin, left, as Thalasso, soprano Shayla Sauvie as Kosmo, soprano Angela Yam as Orsia and members of the San Francisco Girls Chorus in Opera Parallèle’s world-premiere production of ...

Even before William Kentridge decided to invite a boatload of rowdy, quarrelsome new guests on board, the SS Capitaine Paul-Lemerle’s passenger manifest brought together one of history’s most ...

German actor Max Schreck plays Count Orlok, an unofficial Dracula copy, in F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror classic, "Nosferatu." Photo: Cinequest Robert Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu” is an atmospheric ...

During the pandemic, Alex Ketley – a former Lines Ballet dancer who has gone on to a boldly experimental choreography career – began a correspondence with Bill Clark, a prisoner on San Quentin’s death ...