Kausar Mohammed is dreaming of a theatrical Christmas. The queer Pakistani actress, who grew up in San Jose, is thrilled to be playing one of the heroines of the Jane Austen canon, Elizabeth Darcy, in "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley."

The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus will welcome all comers to its annual Holiday Spectacular and Home for the Holidays shows this December. The latter show will be held this year for the first time at Davies Symphony Hall.

As the holidays approach, one uplifting thing we are giving thanks for is gay actors giving great TV. Colman Domingo checks all the boxes. He's set to star in two upcoming series; plus Ronan Farrow's chilling "Surveilled" and more must-see shows.

Probably England's finest prose stylist, in his latest book Alan Hollinghurst has created an elegy, a reminiscence on gay life from the 1960s to the present, but through the lens of class and race as it impacts on art and sexuality.

2024 is a big year for "The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes." The annual drag parody, which began almost two decades ago, will for the first time perform at the Curran Theatre.

Ken Burns documentaries are their own category. There are documentaries, and then there are Ken Burns documentaries. Burns' latest, with Sarah Burns and David McMahon, "Leonardo da Vinci" (PBS), crowns his achievements to date.

In his latest book, "My Gay History," Mark Abramson opens a window to a wealth of personal journal entries from 2003 to 2008. The longtime San Francisco author has mastered the art of reflective writing.

The long, long, long-awaited film adaptation of the stunningly successful Broadway musical "Wicked" is finally upon us. After years of delays and months of inescapable marketing, one can scarcely believe it.

Button up your overcoat because it's getting dark by three, it seems. Take good care of yourself and enjoy some arts and nightlife events, all in Going Out.

Laughter and tears, insult and injury; motherhood, sisterhood and the lifeblood of a neighborhood is all in a day's work at Jaja's African Hair Braiding, the eponymous Harlem salon of Jocelyn Bioh's piquant microcosmic comedy, now at Berkeley Repertory.

Under the leadership of Artistic Directors Matt Kent and Renée Jaworski since 2011, Pilobolus has flourished as one of America's most unique and engaging cultural institutions. The company performs in Berkeley Nov. 30-Dec. 1.

The major new production of "La Cage Aux Folles" that debuted at the Pasadena Playhouse on November 17 would qualify as seasonal theater based on tinsel quantity alone.

Illustrator par excellence Mel Odom used his formidable talents to introduce to the world the emerging gay culture of the 1970s. His new book, "Mel Odom: Gorgeous" is a celebration of a career that is staggering in its versatility.

The new Netflix documentary "Martha" tries to reconcile the visionary Martha Stewart, "who made the world a more beautiful place and democratized fashion, taste, and style," with her unlikable, controlling, contradictory, perfectionistic reputation.