“R.O.I. (Return on Investment)” is a delightfully sophisticated play created by author Aaron Loeb. The highly entertaining, 90-minute, one-act drama…
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.
“Orpheus Descending” is not one of Tennessee Williams’ well-known, often-produced plays, like “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “The…
The de Young Museum, part of San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums (FAMSF), is honored to be the first of two…
Serendipity befalls two unhappy people in Ritesh Batra’s charming musical version of his 2013 lauded film, “The Lunchbox,” in Berkeley…
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….
No drama could meet the moment more than this transcendent, heart-wrenching 1947 Tony Award-winning play about two business partners and…
When “M. Butterfly” opened on Broadway in 1988, it was the talk of the town for its avant-garde exploration of…