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.
“The Great Wave” should have been a great play. It seemingly has all the right ingredients: a spine-tingling story based…
After two years on Broadway, the evocative and entertaining musical “Anastasia” is now touring the United States, to be followed…
Cal Shakes’ world premiere of “House of Joy” by emerging playwright Madhuri Shekar is a dramatically staged and spectacularly costumed…
It’s not often that theater reviewers heap praise on the set designer in the same way that they do on…
On display in one large gallery at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is “No Horizon,” comprising…
The little lifeboat is swiftly sent down./ Too many men too greedily/ Hold on to it as they drown. —…
Tony Taccone, Berkeley Rep’s acclaimed Artistic Director for the last 21 years, is about to launch the last production of…
There’s nothing better than a bright and boisterous musical show to enhance one’s mood — and boy, do we need…
“Humanism is dead, those who follow it are just old sentimentalists” — Eugène Ionesco In “Rhinoceros,” the celebrated absurdist play…
San Francisco’s current, and unfortunately too brief, special engagement of the Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning Broadway hit “Beautiful: The Carol…
The first retrospective organized in the U.S. since 1989 looks afresh at the oeuvre of Andy Warhol (1928–1987), one of…