As it charts a terminally ill woman’s (Michelle Williams) seriocomic sexual experimentation with a series of men, “Dying for Sex” causes enough secondhand embarrassment to want to smash your remote’s ...

Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about how much sex is necessary to a story and which time period had the best movies. Jon Voight cruises Times Square in John ...

Director Tara Moses and Artistic Director and Founder Bill English during rehearsal for San Francisco Playhouse’s “Cashed Out” in San Francisco on Jan. 11, 2023. Photo: Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle ...

The orchestra under guest conductor Juraj Valčuha plays a subtly defiant program that spotlights strong soloists, including violinist Gil Shaham. Violinist Gil Shaham is the soloist in Brahms’ Violin ...

Of all the things that distinguish performer and playwright Ellen McLaughlin as a consummate theater artist, it may be her voice that registers and resonates most deeply. A thing of arresting beauty ...

Kit Connor stars as a Navy SEAL caught in battle during the Iraq War in Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's "Warfare." Photo: Murray Close/A24 One of the most realistic war movies ever made is opening in ...

Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is reimagined in this production, directed by Margo Hall, as a vibrant comedy exploring the complexities of modern manhood. Juicy (Devin A. Cunningham) sets up for the barbecue ...

The connection between “The Odyssey” and post-traumatic stress disorder is potent from the opening lines of the one-woman show “Penelope,” as writer-performer Ellen McLaughlin sings about a “stranger ...

“A Working Man” is another workmanlike Jason Statham bloodbath. As he did last year in “The Beekeeper,” the English hardman again plays a guy who used to employ a very particular set of skills, but is ...

The horror comedy, starring Ortega and Paul Rudd, serves up a darkly comic tale where the rich are the prey and the unicorns steal the show. Paul Rudd, left, and Jenna Ortega as a father and daughter ...