Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Culture
‘Lizastrata’: Make eros, not thanatos, says Aristophanes
September 15, 2021The Troubadour Theater Company’s uproarious mounting of Lizastrata at the Getty Villa’s amphitheater is the latest of countless versions of Aristophanes’ Greek classic Lysistrata.
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Opinion
U.S. imperialism’s original sin in Afghanistan began in 1979, not on 9/11
September 10, 2021As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 is observed, we also must pay attention to what led up to it back in 1979.
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Culture
‘The Big Scary “S” Word’: Documentary film viewers of the world, unite!
September 3, 2021
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Culture
Breakfast at Truman’s: Unanswered questions in ‘The Capote Tapes’ film
August 25, 2021This excellent, entertaining, informative documentary chronicling the life and career of one of America’s literary and gay icons is a cautionary tale.
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Opinion
No socialism, please! CNN gives AOC the corporate media treatment
August 13, 2021Remarkably, Fox News is more honest about the left-wing congresswoman's politics than CNN.
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Culture
Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all
August 3, 2021In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.
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Culture
On the Topanga Trail of the Assassins: ‘Caesar’ on stage in L.A.
July 14, 2021After an extended intermission suffering under the twin tyrannies and plagues of Trumpism and COVID, the return of Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum marks a major milestone on our road back to fully living. For what is life...
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Culture
A man’s man: Tinseltown’s gay star lives again in ‘Taming the Lion’
July 13, 2021William Haines loved to act and make motion pictures. He also adored having sex with other men.
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