Stories about Theatre
Homeless people — in cages
A poverty scholars national tour finds people locked up in St. Petersburg.
The sun hasn’t set yet on Sonny Smith’s SF
The garage rock stalwart launches new label Rocks In Your Head and still believes deeply in the local scene.
Review: Tuskegee Airmen take flight again in ‘Black Eagles’
African-American Shakespeare Company production views heroic saga of segregated WWII squadron through poetic lens.
Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic
Two installments of playwright Mfoniso Udofia's acclaimed nine-play Ufot Family Cycle—'In Old Age" and 'Her Portmanteau'—come to the Magic Theatre and ACT Strand.
Exploring consent—and its conversations—in ‘Actually’
Michael A. Curry plays a Black freshman under pressure at Princeton in Anna Ziegler's play about a fraught encounter.
Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….
Campy Australian horror, RIP Albert Finney, a Chinese gangster epic, Albany Film Fest, and more in cinemas this week.
In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy
The playwright's latest, at San Francisco Playhouse, joyfully takes on mindfulness and commercialism.
Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’
Mfoniso Udofia's play at ACT Strand explores the complexity of mother-daughter relationships once circumstances have torn them apart.
Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….
Mapplethorpe, Styx, Giant Little Ones, tributes to Delphine Seyrig and Hirokazu Kore-eda, and more in cinemas this week.
Review: ‘Fiorello!’ sets the LaGuardia legend to rousing music
A union-backing, immigrant-boosting, Tammany-busting mayor to inspire a new generation in 42nd Street Moon's latest.