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.” ...

Mickey agrees to be an Expendable, meaning he’s the guinea pig in testing out potentially fatal viruses and other dangerous ...

Around the one-hour mark on Tuesday, March 4, Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter strummed the opening chords of “Change (In ...

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 ...

In American Conservatory Theater’s “Nobody Loves You,” a skepticism about the show’s own mechanisms lends it an agreeable edge. Ana Yi Puig, from left, Molly Hager, A.J. Holmes, Seth Hanson and ...

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 ...

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. Happy Pleasant Valley Senior Apartments residents, ...

Alfred Moretti was the most dominant pop star of the ‘90s, a reclusive, technopop legend that reached David Bowie-level fame and created a cultlike following. But that was then. Now Moretti (John ...

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 ...

Dear Kristin: Pornography exists exclusively to titillate. The sex in “Anora” is not for that purpose. Nor does half the movie consist of sex scenes. It’s just not porn. I mean, seriously, have you ...