On September 18, 2018, I had the pleasure of interviewing Max Hollein, who became the new Director of New York’s…
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.
National Book Award finalist Christina García, author of six novels, including the satirical, “King of Cuba,” from which this play…
How many works of literature can you name that have given rise to a regularly used English adjective? Not many?…
In a rare combination of beauty and scholarship, San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum is presenting “Truth and Beauty: The…
Just when I was bemoaning the dearth of newly minted original musicals, along comes “Soft Power,” a wonderfully innovative, exciting,…
It seems that there are very few newly minted original musicals these days. They are either revivals or are based…
When most of us think about the brilliant and influential Belgian artist, René Magritte, we imagine his two most iconic…
Heidi Schreck, talented award-winning playwright (“Grand Concourse”) TV writer (“Billions”), and Obie award-winning actress (“Drum Of The Waves Of Horikawa”)…
It’s difficult to see Berkeley Rep’s impressive and astute new production of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning two-part epic, “Angels in…
Talented playwright Jonathan Spector has achieved the almost impossible. He’s created an exceptional play that is laugh-out-loud funny, yet with…
“Artists always want to see something. They don’t make the work so they can sell it, they make it so…