Serendipity befalls two unhappy people in Ritesh Batra’s charming musical version of his 2013 lauded film, “The Lunchbox,” in Berkeley…
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.
Famed French artist Henri Matisse (1869 –1954) set off a dramatic dispute with the public debut of his painting, “Femme au…
It’s been ten years since portions of the exceptional Fisher art collection, the 1,100 pieces of world-class art collected by…
In playwright-actor Ngozi Anyanwu’s engrossing and endearing “The Monsters,” we meet half-siblings Big and Lil. In the few years they…
It’s difficult to imagine that Claude Monet, the world-famous founder of the Impressionism painting movement, ever had a crisis of…
With acute honesty, shrewd intelligence, soft humor, and more than a bit of poignancy, lawyer and retired judge Amy Oppenheimer…
“After Happy,” Central Works’ 79th premiere, is a delightful blend of broad comedy with a message about the climate crisis….
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When “M. Butterfly” opened on Broadway in 1988, it was the talk of the town for its avant-garde exploration of…
The phrase “tour de force” is overused, but it is an apt description of Jacob Ming-Trent’s performance in “How Shakespeare…
“Mother of Exiles,” developed in The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work, is…
“The Hills of California” is a poignant tale of a mother’s ambition that irrevocably altered the lives of her four…