Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Sex, rock ‘n’ roll, and baseball: Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!”
April 7, 2016Amidst the drink, drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll and baseball are funny sight gags, revealing a slapstick sensibility.
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“The Brainwashing of My Dad”: Rightwing agitprop’s cult-like effects
April 6, 2016Senko's 90-minute documentary explores the techniques of and effects rightwing media has on listeners/viewers/readers.
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“Six Characters in Search of An Author”: Performing Pirandello’s pirouettes
April 6, 2016Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's iconoclastic play is all the more impressive when one takes into account that its premiere in Rome was way back in 1921.
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“Film” and “Notfilm”: Playwright Samuel Beckett meets Buster Keaton
April 1, 2016On the face of it, a collaboration between Beckett and Buster Keaton sounds like an unlikely alliance of artists.
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“Madame Butterfly”: The racial/sexual politics of cross-cultural concubinage
March 30, 2016LA Opera's current production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" hits not only a homer, but a grand slam.
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Open letter to Motion Picture Academy, L.A. Women’s Theater Festival
March 28, 2016"Dear Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, you have come under intense criticism for Cloroxing this year's Oscars..."
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“Spies Are Forever”: When genres collide
March 18, 2016The conventions of the espionage thriller meet the attributes of the musical, with lots of comedy along the way.
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“Summer and Smoke”: Tennessee’s waltz and the blindness of neighbors
March 14, 2016Tara Battani's is among the finest acting I've ever seen on the L.A. boards, and is by itself worth the price of admission.
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