In “Center Stage,” released in May 2000, young Jody Sawyer makes it into the school of the fictional American Ballet Academy in New York, where the company’s star dancer Cooper Nielson casts her in ...
Back in the early 1970s, San Francisco photographer Michael Jang had a Chronicle press pass. And one from Rolling Stone. And one from the New York Times. None of them were real. In that analog era, he ...
“On Swift Horses” is about two people searching for their own unique destiny in the post-Korean War United States, and another who buys into the American dream of the 1950s. Lee and Julius, products ...
The publication of a little-known manuscript by chief Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter this fall is a find like no other to date, according to the Bay Area band’s official historian. “The Silver ...
“Clown in a Cornfield” will never be ranked among the classics of our time, but there are aspects of it that are worthy of admiration. Based on Adam Cesare’s 2020 novel of the same name, it’s not only ...
Daisy Ridley performs swimmingly as legendary swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle. Real-life story becomes an inspired feminist saga about the first woman to swim the English Channel. Daisy Ridley stars ...
The Marsh’s production benefits from sources who are so good that you want to see a whole separate play about how Dan Hoyle found these people. Dan Hoyle in his new solo show, “Takes All Kinds,” at ...
The vintage Grateful Dead T-shirt sold for a record price through auction at Sotheby’s. Photo: Sotheby's After expenses and fees, auction winner Bo Bushnell paid a total of $19,315.80 for the Grateful ...
Thomas P. Campbell, former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, will become director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Photo: FAMSF / © 2018 ...
Muriel Leung, author of the apocalyptic but hopeful novel, “How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster.” Photo: Muriel Leung In the early days of the COVID pandemic, author Muriel Leung ...
Dede Wilsey poses for a portrait with her dog Dazzle at her home in San Francisco. Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle 2015 After 21 years as president of the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San ...
Cynthia Erivo, left, is Elphaba and Ariana Grande is Glinda in “Wicked,” directed by Jon M. Chu. Photo: Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures The marketing of “Wicked” has been so obnoxious for so long — ...