Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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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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Down with the Republic! Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” in Topanga
August 4, 2016Ellen Geer tackles a tragedy written in 1594 set in ancient Rome, resets it in the future, and does so as comment on contemporary America.
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“Jason Bourne” film: Don’t trust the CIA
August 1, 2016What's arguably most interesting about Jason Bourne is its up-to-the-minute topicality, ripping those proverbial headlines right off the front pages.
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Molière’s madcap merriment amuses
July 14, 2016"The Imaginary Invalid" pokes fun at doctors and the class system with ribald humor.
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“Hunt for the Wilderpeople”: Outlandish outlaws in New Zealand’s Maori bush
June 30, 2016This is a banner week for South Seas Cinema, the film genre set and shot in the Pacific Islands.
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Anti-slavery classic revived for the stage as “Tom”
June 23, 2016A nineteenth-century American classic, re-imagined for the stage as a tale of racial injustice.
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