In Adam Bock’s “A Small Fire,” we watch a woman lose her senses through a mysterious disease, yet she persists…
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.
Exceprts from an interview with Emily Mendel. Her review of “Octet” is here. On the human voice:“I was the stereotypical…
The rock musical, “Passing Strange,” is a quirky amalgam of the autobiography of a young Black American, a raucous comedy,…
Alice Neel (1900–1984) is one of many American women artists underappreciated during her lifetime. She didn’t fit in with the…
The world premiere “Swept Away” is the tragic tale of four starving shipwrecked sailors — and it’s a musical. But…
What an absolute delight it was to see this sensational revival of the legendary 1956 Lerner and Loewe musical, “My…
The appointment of Furio Rinaldi as the new Curator of Drawings and Prints of the two Fine Arts Museums of…
Now at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) are nearly 140 powerful works by a broad collection…
I savored immersing myself in the music of the transformative singer/songwriter/poet Leonard Cohen in the days before I attended “Experience…
It was thrilling to see a live Shakespeare play at California Shakespeare Theater’s Bruns Amphitheater in Orinda. “The Winter’s Tale”…
A good retrospective art exhibit presents an overview of an artist’s oeuvre with biographical details and commentary about the work….
Excitement filled the crowded press conference at San Francisco’s de Young Museum last week as the pioneering iconic artist Judy…
East Bay theaters are planning live productions starting late this summer after more than a year of valiantly entertaining and…