“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, ...

Opera Parallèle presents the West Coast debut of “Fellow Travelers,” based on Thomas Mallon’s McCarthy-era novel that also inspired the Showtime LGBTQ miniseries. Thomas Mallon, author of “Fellow ...

In his inspiring book, “The Chair and the Valley,” Martinez author Banning Lyon details how the outdoors helped him survive his traumatic past. Author Banning Lyon poses for a portrait in May near his ...

Dear Robert Freud Bastin: I never really met Gene Hackman, but I was at a press conference where he was getting interviewed, and I was close to him and saw how he spoke to people and carried himself.

“Tuesday” blends two artistic universes, and it would have helped if both were of equal quality. It’s a Julia Louis-Dreyfus movie that concentrates on a mother-daughter relationship, and to that ...

June Squibb, in her first leading role, plays a nonagenarian who gets help from a friend, played by Richard Roundtree, in retrieving money that was stolen from her in “Thelma.” Photo: Magnolia ...

In 2019, “Disappearing Earth” — Julia Phillips’ haunting, suspenseful debut about two young sisters who get kidnapped on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East — was a finalist for the ...

Dear Teresa Concepcion: Well, in one sense of the word “best,” I’d say the Roxie Theater, the Stanford Theatre, the Rafael Film Center and the theater inside the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

Can a comedian take on the Israel-Palestinian conflict?

Despite the comedic star power of Tina Fey, Will Forte and Steve Carell, the series remake of Alan Alda’s 1981 film on midlife marriage feels old and tired. Steve Carell, from left, Kerri Kenney, Tina ...

Kristen Stewart almost saves “Love Me.” To see her here — that is, to see her comfortable in her own skin, her intense way of listening and the freshness of her reactions — as well as to hear the ...

Before transgender performers like Laverne Cox, Indya Moore, Hunter Schafer and Hari Nef burst into pop culture in the 2010s, Candy Darling was the world’s first trans actor to make a major impact.