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.
It was a pleasure to watch some of my favorite Bay Area artists and director doing their best work at…
The extraordinary and applauded theatrical production of “Gatz” has played to sold-out theaters in the United States and Europe since…
Two-time Emmy Award-winning actor Tony Hale (Gary on “Veep,” Buster on “Arrested Development”) returned to the stage for the first…
Berkeley’s Indra’s Net Theater is now staging the first American production of the newly revised version (2018) of playwright Michael…
Sarah Ruhl rules! The MacArthur Fellowship “genius” award winner’s latest play, a world premiere, and her sixth at Berkeley Rep…
Good news for San Francisco’s Harry Potter fans: the most awarded theatrical entertainment in theater history, “Harry Potter and the…
Some stories are so satisfying that they seem to live on and on, sometimes in different modes and renditions. Such…
Since 1967, the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)…
“Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 –1983” celebrates and dignifies the significant body of artwork by African American…
In a departure from its typical retrospective or mid-career show of a sole contemporary or renowned artist, (typically in the…
Happily, Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks (“Topdog/Underdog,” “Father Comes Home from the Wars”) has a sense of humor that ameliorates a bit of the stark, sobering…