Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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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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Aristocrats, acrobats, anarchists, marriage proposals and a plane crash populate Shaw’s ‘Misalliance’
June 3, 2024Let the worldly wise tomfoolery and drollery unfold.
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‘Topsy Turvy’: From Covid to Ovid, a pandemic parable
May 29, 2024The play not only lampooned but harpooned the Bush administration and the professional flatterers of mass murderers.
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