Emily S. Mendel, a writer and photographer, has been a regular contributor to culturevulture.net since 2006, where she reviews theater, art, film, television and destinations. Ending her 30-year law practice has given Ms. Mendel the time to indulge in her love of travel and the arts, and to serve as the theater reviewer for berkeleyside.com.
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Writes in: Art & Architecture, Dance, Destinations, Etc, Features, Film, Television, and Theater.
EtcBerkeley,
Tony Taccone, Berkeley Rep’s acclaimed Artistic Director for the last 21 years, is about to launch the last production of his last season, before turning over the reins to incoming artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer. During ...
TheaterBerkeley,
There’s nothing better than a bright and boisterous musical show to enhance one's mood — and boy, do we need a mood-changer these days. “Kiss My Aztec!,” with its book co-written by John Leguizamo (“Latin History for Morons”) and ...
TheaterSan Francisco,
"Humanism is dead, those who follow it are just old sentimentalists" — Eugène Ionesco In “Rhinoceros,” the celebrated absurdist play by Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), we witness herd mentality gone amuck in its most literal form. ...
TheaterSan Francisco,
San Francisco’s current, and unfortunately too brief, special engagement of the Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning Broadway hit “Beautiful: The Carol King Musical” retains its magic in this, its fourth run in ...
Art & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
The first retrospective organized in the U.S. since 1989 looks afresh at the oeuvre of Andy Warhol (1928–1987), one of the most talented American artists of the second half of the 20th century. He was a creative and thoughtful ...
TheaterBerkeley,
“The Good Book’s” authors, Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, creators of Berkeley Rep’s 2012 “An Iliad,” take on a colossal subject, one that may not be capable of mastery in one evening of theater. The lengthy, chock-filled production creatively ...
TheaterBerkeley,
“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.’’ — Oscar Wilde A lot of what passes for entertainment ...
TheaterSan Francisco,
“This is Vanity Fair, and it is not a moral place. Nor is it often a merry one." It’s no easy trick to distill William Makepeace ...
Art & ArchitectureOakland,
The distinctive multimedia and interactive exhibit, “Queer California: Untold Stories,” the first in California to focus on LGBTQ+ history and culture, just opened at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). The exhibition contains a variety ...
TheaterSan Francisco,
The West Coast premiere of the immersive theater experience, “The Jungle” assaulted the April 4th opening night audience at San Francisco’s Curran with harsh lights, loud noise, beating drums, fits of anger, bouts of tears, ...
