Though he grew up in a musical family, Rauw Alejandro didn’t always think life as an artist was in the cards for him. He spent most of his life as an athlete. From age 6 to 20, the Puerto Rican artist ...

When Kathryn Seabron encounters a racist, she responds in a way that takes away that person’s power. “Who hurt you?” she rhetorically asks an author of anti-Black pseudoscience in “Angry Black Woman ...

You know it when you see it: that touch of the natural or the bohemian or the handcrafted that makes something part of the Bay Area ethos. In the second iteration of the Northern California biennial ...

Jerrod Carmichael strives to be a “Truman Show” level of candid with his audience. The comedian, actor, writer and filmmaker isn’t afraid to get real when on camera, from coming out as gay in his 2022 ...

Since the dawn of domesticity, rugs and carpets have been essential for both warmth and protection and creating a sense of home in a space. More than just utility or decor, the history of the rug is ...

Jaylah Ji’mya Hickmon, known onstage as Doechii, was on the path to becoming a professional choral singer until a friend urged her to take a shot at producing and releasing her own music online. She ...

This season’s Tony Awards will take place on June 8 at its familiar home of Radio City Music Hall, producers of the show announced the date and location Monday. A view of the stage before the start of ...

In a show about Dionysus, Trixxie Carr has staged a duet of sorts between two dildos set to Hall and Oates’ “One on One.” In a rock show about Salome, inspired by both the Oscar Wilde and Richard ...

“Tighten up!” the headmaster (Fred Pitts) says to Pharus (William Schmidt). “Like all men, hold some things in.” But in fact the headmaster in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Choir Boy,” now in a Shotgun ...

When Kung Pao Kosher Comedy creator and San Francisco comedian Lisa Geduldig decided to do a monthly comedy show on Zoom at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, she had no idea it would last ...

“Acts of Care,” a new exhibition presented by Counter Collective and Ruth’s Table, takes a look at the practices of caretaking, community-building and connection and how they can help create a more ...

Florida rapper Ski Mask The Slump God plans to stop in San Francisco on Aug. 14 as part of his “11th Dimension” tour in support of his recent album of the same name. The artist, known offstage as ...