A cross between a musical profile and a rock and roll show, Randy Johnson’s “A Night with Janis Joplin” is…
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.
From Mira Nair’s Golden Globe-nominated 2001 movie comes her world premiere musical version of “Monsoon Wedding,’ a big-hearted earnest extravaganza…
The aftermath of a horrifying mass shooting is not the cheeriest subject for the theater, although these days, it is…
Since I wanted to learn more about Dorothea Lange, Berkeley resident Elizabeth Partridge, Lange’s goddaughter and the granddaughter of photographer…
“Five years earlier, I would have thought it enough to take a picture of a man, no more. But now,…
“Battlefield,” prodigious director Peter Brook’s unusual new offering, presents a small portion of the “Mahabharata,” the ancient Sanskrit epic poem…
“Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin” is one in a series of one-man musical biographies written and performed by Hershey Felder….
Robert Lepage’s 1991 creative drama of transatlantic love, loss and foreign complications intersperses tales of American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis…
“Matisse always surprises me…. It’s the restraint coupled with the sensuousness that’s so utterly exceptional.” Richard Diebenkorn The distinguished artistic…
“Monet: The Early Years” is visually gorgeous and academically significant. Presenting Monet’s work from the early phase of his career…
“Hand to God,” a Tony-nominated, riotously funny romp, shaded with black undertones, uses a foul-mouthed sock puppet to demonstrate the…