The secret horror Hal’s father has placed on him and his twin brother Bill (both played as adults by Theo James) is an ...

Daisy Ridley, left, and Matthew Tuck star in the action film “Cleaner.” ...

For more than a decade starting in the early 1980s, author and critic Misha Berson led Theatre Bay Area as one of its earliest executive directors.

Strong singing and direction give Béla Bartók’s one-act chiller plenty of thrills in this production from OSJ’s Shawna Lucey. Baritone Zachary Nelson and soprano Maria Natale star in Opera San José’s ...

Grief is the ultimate video game boss. You can try to quash it with drinking, sleeplessness, soap operas, exurban chain establishments or running away. You can avoid talking about it and seek out ...

Hi Mick: I’m sure you’ve noticed how frequently “category fraud” occurs in Oscar nominations. This year there are two, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña, both nominated in the supporting category and both ...

It’s not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto has been substituted for the Big Apple. Matthew Rankin, though, has gone ...

“Cuckoo Edible Magic,” inspired by gaming and anime, suffers from typical early-career shortcomings, but playwright Reed Flores proves himself a rising star. Ren (Dom Refuerzo, left) and Mai (Nicole ...

Is Emily J. Smith’s “Nothing Serious,” with its hoodie-clad egomaniacs and needless social media products, a piercing tech industry takedown? Does an important character’s untimely death lend her ...

Available in English after it was published in Italian more than 40 years ago, the book by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini is as crisp and dizzying as ever. “Runaway Horses” by Italian authors ...