The boardroom drama seizes an opportunity many established local theaters have been slow to act on: the chance to delve into ...

Guest conductor Elim Chan returns with a passionate yet graceful program that pairs “Swan Lake” with the “Pathétique” ...

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

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 ...

About a third of the way through “Dope Thief” you might get hit by a gnawing and familiar thought: This should have been a two-hour movie, not an eight-episode limited series. It is sporadically ...

Cate Blanchett, from left, and Michael Fassbender play married espionage agents in Steven Soderbergh’s “Black Bag,” which opens in theaters on Friday, March 14. Photo: Claudette Barius/Associated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...