Dear Mick LaSalle: I once met Gene Hackman at a boxing match and spoke with him. Nice man. Did you ever meet him? Robert Freud Bastin, Petaluma Dear Robert Freud Bastin: I never really met Gene ...

Particularly grating is when the two — beautiful — middle-aged actors, Fey and Kerri Kenney (“Reno 911!”) crack fatphobic jokes, especially at their own expense. It’s not funny, and it’s not ...

Say you just broke up from a serious relationship. You’re raw and lost. The questions of why and what now are abysses you see no way out of. You might channel the resulting thoughts into a journal ...

“Tenderness” is the word that keeps coming to mind while watching Alex Ketley’s “An Approximation of Resilience.” The dance is unfailingly, unflaggingly, extraordinarily tender. This is surprising, ...

As Timo is leaving his old friend Mickey to die in an icy crevice on a barren planet, he says, “Nice knowing you, have a nice death” — before adding, “See you tomorrow.” Mickey (Robert Pattinson), you ...

Francis-Sharma deftly captures the subtleties of racism at the business dinner with Matshediso, as well as the microaggressions Black people face. She also neatly observes Global North and South ...

Written inside the lead ballerinas’ costumes in San Francisco Ballet’s “Manon” is a familiar name: “T. Rojo.” Tamara Rojo, who is entering her second repertory season as the Ballet’s artistic director ...

“Eh, I don’t think so,” he said. “I’ve been watching ball games out of Candlestick Park for years, and the people there are wearing overcoats — in July!” I’d expected San Francisco to be my East Coast ...

The new work offers something familiar and different, said Robertson, a frequent Adams collaborator. “There are the classic hallmarks of John’s in terms of how he makes the orchestra sound and how he ...

Welcome to the boomtowns, Southwest style. Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city in the United States. The population of metro Las Vegas is nearing 3 million. The cities and their states proved their ...

Paul Schrader is clearly going through some things. The director is nobly caring for his wife, actress Mary Beth Hurt, during her long journey through Alzheimer’s; dealing with health issues of his ...

The show, which comes to Berkeley Repertory Theatre in April, is about a photo album that an anonymous U.S. Army lieutenant colonel donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007. It depicts ...