San Jose author and journalist Gary Singh’s passion for soccer has turned him into the premier historian for the San Jose Earthquakes. Soccer fans cheer during the MLS soccer match between the San ...

Octavio Solis’ reverse-migration sequel to John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” feels as overladen as the Joad family jalopy. James Carpenter as William Joad, left, and Emilio Garcia-Sanchez as Martín ...

The lead actor plays a grandmother who gets scammed and then goes on an action-packed quest to get her money back. Actor June Squibb, 94, and “Thelma” director Josh Margolin chat in a suite at the San ...

“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, ...

A critic hated this box office smash, back after seven years. A ballet dancer loved it. As soon as the curtain fell, they discussed. Frances Chung, top, and Wei Wang in Liam Scarlett’s “Frankenstein.” ...

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 the teaser for the reboot of the “The Naked Gun” parody films, Berkeley-born director Akiva Shaffer wastes no time making a joke at the expense of the original series’ problematic cast member. In ...

A scene from Olivia Kuan’s “The Herricanes,” a documentary about the first women’s full tackle football league in the U.S. in the 1970s. Photo: Frameline Frameline programmer and new Executive ...

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 own; and mourning the impending death of humanity — he ...

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.

One of the first reviews of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in the London newspaper the Morning Post in 1885, which lauded the novel as “never having a moment’s cessation of fun of ...

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 ...