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 ...

After a well-received first run in 2024, the Fraenkel Gallery’s Fraenkel Film Festival will return to the Roxie Theater this summer. The news of the festival’s second year comes as the nonprofit seeks ...

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 ...

The art form might be called drama, but gentleness is a perfectly valid approach onstage. Such plays slow time down, the way bird-watching does. Your breath resets to the rhythm of wind between boughs ...

What Jon Hickey has created with “Big Chief” is a masterclass on identity and what it feels like to be at peace within our skin. There is power in those actions. Through Mitch , Hickey shows us there ...

The primary focus of “Change, Not Charity,” which premieres Tuesday, March 25, on PBS’ “American Experience,” is the push to pass the Americans With Disabilities Act, which President George H.W. Bush ...

On July 19, 2023, Saou Ichikawa won Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize for her short but mighty debut novel, “Hunchback” — making her the first disabled person to be given the honor in the award’s 90 ...

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 ...

Nicole Graev Lipson’s sharp, sparkling collection “Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays” triumphs at its mission: mapping out Lipson’s life as a young mother who also fiercely ...

If you’re at all involved in the theater scene, you may have heard of the name Betty Shamieh. A celebrated Palestinian American playwright, Shamieh is the author of 15 plays, including the sold-out ...

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 ...