Two years ago, the prequel “Minions: The Rise of Gru” prompted me to wonder whether there was much excitement or innovation left for star Steve Carell to mine in his animated alter ego Gru.

Other Minds Festival is set to return to San Francisco for its 28th year, transforming Brava Theater into a hub for composers from all over the world to showcase their works. The four-day festival, ...

Gryffin is scheduled to return home to the Bay Area on Dec. 31 for a New Year’s Eve show at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. Photo: Harold Feng/Getty Images Dan Griffith has toured all over the ...

Artistic Director Tamara Rojo’s second repertory season draws heavily upon her experiences at the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet.

East Bay native Sameer Pandya’s latest novel explores masculinity and identity through the lens of a Gandhian legacy, high school football and a life-altering incident among three friends.

Stevie Nicks embraced her inner Swiftie at the Eras Tour in Dublin, Ireland, over the weekend, receiving a personalized surprise song segment and partying the night away with Swift after the show. The ...

Dakota Johnson stars as Girlie, a woman who talks about her personal life with a New York City taxi driver in “Daddio.” Photo: Phedon Papamichael/Sony Pictures “Daddio” is one of the best movies of ...

Rob McClure, who originated the musical’s title role, tackles both its joys and criticisms ahead of the Bay Area premiere. Rob McClure as Mrs. Doubtfire roams the Castro in San Francisco on May 29 to ...

‘MaXXXine’ review: 1980s Hollywood is under attack in Ti West’s trilogy finale Director Ti West and fearless actress Mia Goth neatly wrap up their “X” trilogy with a bloody valentine to Tinseltown.

Captured in Argentina and sentenced to hang by Israel’s supreme court in the early 1960s, Holocaust-organizing Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s state-sanctioned killing is pretty justifiable, so Jake Paltrow’s ...

Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn is a team-up few may have expected. But the actors’ challenging, compelling work together is just one of the unexpected pleasures in “Daddio.” A cinematic two-hander set ...

The Opera Parallèle production, about a clandestine relationship during the shadow of the Joseph McCarthy era, had its West Coast premiere at Presidio Theatre on Friday.