“Monet: The Early Years” is visually gorgeous and academically significant. Presenting Monet’s work from the early phase of his career…
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.
“Hand to God,” a Tony-nominated, riotously funny romp, shaded with black undertones, uses a foul-mouthed sock puppet to demonstrate the…
Against the current rage of Islamophobia infecting our nation, the world premiere of “The Thousand Splendid Suns” at ACT’s Geary…
”I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.”…
SF MOMA’s remarkable new exhibit of early works by the brilliant photographer, Diane Arbus (1923-1971) contains about taken by the…
I’m a huge Harry Potter fan. The two terrific full-length plays (one matinee and one evening performance, separated by about…
Yes! Another fab English costume drama to savor over the long winter nights. Fans of “Downton Abbey” will relish the…
Sandra Tsing Loh, performer, writer and comedian, is a bright, gutsy woman whose newest on-stage memoir, “The Madwoman in the…
Tomás Saraceno (b. 1973) burst onto the art and architecture scene about 10 years ago with his innovative, beautiful and…
The Kneehigh Theatre of Cornwall (“The Wild Bride,” “Tristan and Yseult,” “Meow, Meow”) in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre is…
Keith Josef Adkins has written an admirable play that tells the tale of two free brothers of color in 1843’s…
I’ve appreciated and admired Frank Stella’s abstract art for many years, but the de Young Museum’s exciting retrospective enriched my…
“The Last Tiger in Haiti,” a world premiere co-production between Berkeley Rep and the La Jolla Playhouse, was written by…
This fascinating first retrospective of the diverse oeuvre of Bruce Conner (1933-2008) contains more than 250 objects in many media…