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.

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ali Benjamin, whose bestselling novel “The Thing About Jellyfish” has been adapted into a new play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, knows it can be easy to misinterpret a young person’s silence. Her ...

In the late 1990s, Lauren Francis-Sharma attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearings when she briefly lived in Johannesburg while attending law school. The hearings were set up ...

Katy Perry performs at Jingle Ball in Philadelphia in December. Her forthcoming world tour includes a stop at San Francisco’s Chase Center on July 18. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Katy Perry is ...

The MacArthur Fellowship genius grant recipient draws on her deep knowledge of jazz, gospel and more for the orchestra’s experimental concert series. Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan is curating ...