Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Bridging the great cultural chasm: A fractured comic fairy tale of ‘Human Error’
August 13, 2024Beyond our dogmas and ideological differences, we’re only human, and to err is human, while to laugh is divine.
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Arthurian legends, Cold War realpolitik and sexual politics in ‘Camelot’
July 31, 2024Set in medieval England, Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Camelot, one of Broadway’s top musicals of all time, is as fabled as the legends this play is derived from.
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‘Into the Woods’: Enchanting fairy tales for grown-ups
July 29, 2024This superb revival of Into the Woods is a stellar show, that movingly ponders the meaning of life and all the chances we must take while we embark upon our journeys.
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‘The Spy Who Went into Rehab’: A dramatic spoof on a film fantasy
July 23, 2024Gregg Ostrin has taken this potent potion and cannily shaken and stirred it with the notion and concoction of putting this vodka martini-swilling smoker, gambler, compulsive seducer, and multiple killer in a rehabilitation center.
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Still advertising for himself: ‘How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer’
July 19, 2024Did I come alive while viewing How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer and thoroughly enjoy it? Guilty as charged!
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Love among the artists: Leo and Gilda and Otto in ‘Design for Living’
July 11, 2024Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is presenting a spicy adaptation of Noël Coward’s salaciously audacious, eyebrow-raising ribald romp Design for Living.
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‘Unbroken Blossoms’: D.W. Griffith’s self-correction after ‘Birth of Nation’?
July 10, 2024Unbroken Blossoms is a highly entertaining, enlightening play that helps break the chain and yoke of racist narratives.
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‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: Viggo Mortensen as Lord of the Gunslingers
June 5, 2024The thoughtful, left-leaning Western is well-acted and well-made, and in his second time up at bat as a writer/director, Viggo Mortensen proves that he’s much more than a mere lord of the rings.
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