In San Francisco for only a few weeks before it premieres on Broadway this summer, “Head Over Heels” is an…
Emily S. Mendel
Emily S. Mendel, a writer, and photographer, has been a regular contributor to culturevulture.net since 2006, where she concentrates her reviews on San Francisco theater and art. As a native New Yorker (although now a long-time San Francisco Bay Area resident), Emily grew up loving and studying theater, from Off to On Broadway, as her multi-volume Playbill collection attests. Ending her 30-year law practice has given Ms. Mendel the time to indulge in her love of travel and the arts.
I didn’t sleep well the night I saw “Office Hour,” and to my mind that’s a good thing, because my…
Yes, there was an actual person named Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) from whence the epithet originated. The Venetian libertine and adventurer,…
The vital, welcoming, multicultural Ubuntu Theater Project, founded in Oakland in 2012, is currently performing one of Tennessee William’s best…
It’s a pleasure to see a fine production of any play by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), but especially one of…
Curators of The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) explored their storage facilities and put together the first…
Lillian Hellman (1905 –1984), celebrated author and left-wing political activist, would be both pleased and saddened that her 1940 play…
TheatreFirst has commissioned 12 enlivening and exhilarating short plays by outstanding playwrights that are designed to provoke thought, discussion and…
While many theatre companies put on undemanding feel-good musical shows for the holidays, leave it to Shotgun Players to produce…
Although it’s over 100 years since the first African-American boxer, Jack Johnson, won the world heavyweight boxing championship in a…
A new and unique exhibit of more than 120 creations and artifacts highlighting the fabulous style, artistry and complexity of…
Broad Stage, Santa Monica, January 11-28, 2018 AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas, January 31-February 4, 2018 Arsht Center, Miami, February…