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Movies: Bruce Lee Day, ‘Omaha,’ ‘Blue Heron,’ ‘Marama,’ ‘Two Women’

Family dramas and a cathartic historical revenge thriller are among this week's picks.

The multi-award-winning show premiered at New York’s Public Theater in 2023 and went to Broadway in 2024.

The isolation of the pandemic spurred Hua to investigate what she calls “the loneliness epidemic.”

The wacky 12K race featuring costumed runners -- and plenty of spectators -- takes place Sunday, May 17.

Plus, San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers at Freight & Salvage on Saturday.

Ayelet Waldman; Margaret Juhae Lee, Vanessa Hua; poetry workshops with Ray Hsu; and the Bay Area Book Festival on tap this month.

Students will perform the full piece this weekend, accompanied by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.

Judy Collins, Terriona “Tank” Ball, Invoke, and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir will join Downes onstage.

More than 60 movies are on the bill for the 44th run of the Center for Asian American Media's annual festival this weekend.

Sue Gilmore of Local News Matters traces the history of the epistolary novel from 1740 to today's bestseller "The Correspondent."