Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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“Unbound”: A generational saga from Panthers to Occupiers
October 31, 2016Playwright D.G. Watson’s Unbound proves the old cliché “politics makes strange bedfellows.”
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“The Source” updates opera for the WikiLeaks age
October 26, 2016"The Source" is to be applauded for daring to tackle such controversial subject matter.
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Babs’ majordomo in solo play “Buyer & Cellar”
October 21, 2016Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar is one of those clever concoctions where it’s hard to know where fact ends and fiction begins.
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Double play: “Billy & Ray” and “The Stand-In”
October 17, 2016The cynicism Wilder’s oeuvre is known for suggests that he may not necessarily have been so wild about us - the human race.
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“Kevin Hart: What Now?”: Black off-topic comedy
October 14, 2016Kevin Hart: What Now? makes a contribution to the growing cinematic surge of Black-themed films.
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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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