Cirque du Soleil returns to Oracle Park with “Echo,” featuring a unique cube set and running Nov. 20 to Dec. 21.

Lance Gardner, Marin Theatre’s artistic director, rediscovers his passion for acting in new collaboration with Carey Perloff.

The orchestra’s former music director leads a program of Schubert and Brahms with grace, if occasional shakiness.

Brittany Newell, San Francisco author and professional dominatrix whose new book, “Soft Core” comes out Feb. 4th, poses for a portrait in the upstairs office at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in the Tenderloin ...

Carrie Mae Weems, “Painting the Town #4,” 2021. Photo: © Carrie Mae Weems/Gladstone Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; Galerie Barbara Thumm ...

Flanked by backup dancers, Aespa (Ningning, left, Winter, Giselle and Karina) thrilled with next-level choreography. Photo: Chloe Catajan The steady ascent of K-pop girl group Aespa feels like a ...

Roots musician Taj Mahal will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards this year. Photo: Courtesy Taj Mahal Taj Mahal wasn’t shocked to get the news that the Recording ...

The final sitcom from legendary television creator Norman Lear, “Clean Slate” premieres, as well as a trip of intense thrillers. Science fiction series “Cassandra” is streaming on Netflix starting ...

Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon come from two very different comedy worlds. Ferrell is slapstick, over-the-top silliness and pop culture irony; Witherspoon is classic rom-com, sweetness with ...

Readers of all ages can find much to appreciate in stories about Black Americans centering family, justice, history and resilience. “Beacon of Hope: The Life of Barack Obama” by Doreen Rappaport.

Personal remembrances, emotional reunions and unseen footage mark this effort as the 50th anniversary of the war’s end approaches. U.S. Marine Jeff Hiers in “Vietnam: The War That Changed America,” ...

As hard as it is to overstate the scope of Twyla Tharp’s choreographic career — she started making dances as a postmodern rebel in the 1960s and “crossed over” into ballet virtuosity in the 1970s — it ...