Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Edward Albee dies, “The Play About the Baby” premieres
September 30, 2016On the very day Edward Albee died his 1996 play had its Los Angeles premiere.
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Jean Genet’s “The Maids”: Uncivil servants in Pasadena
September 29, 2016"The Maids" focuses on characters often overlooked in the arts - lowly, unlettered, relatively unskilled, servile, manual laborers.
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“Macbeth”: A specter haunts the Los Angeles Opera
September 26, 2016LA Opera's outstanding production of Giuseppe Verdi's operatic version of Macbeth is simply one of its best.
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Greg Palast’s “Best Democracy Money Can Buy”: Billionaires and ballot bandits
September 22, 2016The film's central focus is an alleged conspiracy to nullify the votes of at least 1 million mostly minority people at the polls.
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“Bridget Jones’s Baby”: Good fun for women and men
September 19, 2016The story has lots of laughs generated by sight gags, broad slapstick, witty dialogue and many mature references (minus snickering) to sex, body functions, body parts and paternity.
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“Arcadia”: Tom Stoppard’s complex Byronic drama to the manor born
September 14, 2016This two-acter is so complex that the playbill actually includes a "character map" which, like a genealogical diagram, traces who is who in a series of linked boxes.
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“Haunted House Party”: Roman comedy makes a comeback after 2200 years
September 12, 2016After the proverbial curtain fell I felt like paraphrasing Hamlet: "I have of late, but wherefore I know why, lost all my misery...."
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Florence Foster Jenkins of the trachea: Go with the Flo
August 12, 2016Meryl Streep fully incarnates Jenkins, endowing the fleshy, flashy, flawed dowager with her full humanity.
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