Young actor Matilda Lawler is brilliant in a difficult, internalizing role as teen at the center of Ali Benjamin’s story ...

Young actor Matilda Lawler is brilliant in a difficult, internalizing role as teen at the center of Ali Benjamin’s story ...

The Thing About Jellyfish delves into a young girl’s wonder with a topic she believes will satisfy her need to explain a ...

If you’ve ever been a middle-school girl whose best friend drifted away (maybe because she became interested in boys and you ...

From a cool double bill of 1980s bands to a revered classical music quartet, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosted a Lunar New Year party at the only Mandarin-service chapel in ...

Why can’t you idealize a friendship when you memorialize it? Tyne Rafaeli directs the world premiere for Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Among the many options for eating and drinking in the area, perhaps ...

A gripping Holocaust drama explores the banality of evil as museum archivist grapples with Nazi leisure photos at Auschwitz. Strong performances and innovative staging illuminate how ordinary people ...

The past year of Leslye Headland’s work has been a love letter to her teenage self. The multitalented ...

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 ...

Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier presented the Midwest premiere of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” a comedy that enjoyed a twice-extended Broadway run and was nominated for five Tony Awards ...

A new world premiere from prolific master of stage comedy Ken Ludwig, writer of Crazy for You and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. You know Holmes and Watson. You know Nick and ...