Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical is relevant whenever nationalism, groupthink and racial othering are on the rise, which seems to be always. Hedonistic nightlife thrives at the Kit ...

Theater director and film director Peter Brook stands for a portrait at ACT’s rehearsal studios in San Francisco. Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle 2017 Brook’s cast stripped every pretense away. That ...

Jason Reitman’s tale of the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975 is chaos, but wins you over. Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle, left), Jacqueline Carlin (Kaia Gerber) and her future husband ...

Midway through his concert at a packed Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, global pop superstar Jackson Wang opened up to his Bay Area fans about the toll a decade of pleasing everyone ...

The publication of a little-known manuscript by chief Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter this fall is a find like no other to date, according to the Bay Area band’s official historian. “The Silver ...

Soloist Sayaka Shoji partners with conductor and orchestra for a scorching performance of the Russian composer’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, right, leads the San Francisco ...

The lobster Tots from Alice Collective. Photo: Jess Lander/The Chronicle BottleRock Napa Valley is as beloved for its culinary offerings as it is for its musical acts. It’s a great opportunity to ...

Actor Christopher Reeves’ children, Matthew Reeve, left, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve, attend the premiere of “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ...

In Cirque Flip Fabrique and Ex Machina’s circus-theater hybrid, deep understanding and love of wrestling norms yield delightful scenarios. Maeva Desplat, top, and Naomi Eddy in Cirque Flip Fabrique ...

The company asked artists to come up with new renderings using its artificial intelligence tools. The results were shown at an immersive art exhibition in S.F. Artists Erik Carter and Shawna X spoke ...

A London party girl returns to her Scottish homeland, where fresh trauma awaits, in an effort to get sober in “The Outrun,” a predictable yet solid drama anchored by a typically outstanding ...

The preposterous but pleasingly escapist “G20” imagines a Black woman as the United States president, which of course almost happened in real life a few months ago. But Viola Davis’ Danielle Sutton is ...