Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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A playwright named “Shagspeare” in Bill Cain’s “Equivocation”
September 24, 2014"Shag" for short receives a royal commission to write about Guy Fawkes and England's 1605 Gunpowder Plot.
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“Persians” theater review: War is Hades
September 22, 2014"Outrage, once ripened, yields a bumper crop of retribution."
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The Los Angeles Swiss Film Festival in review
September 17, 2014Swiss cinema and television has a rich heritage. This motion picture plenitude was on full display at Hollywood's Harmony Gold Theater on Sept. 7.
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Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman warns about nuclear nightmares
September 12, 2014"The thyroid cancer death rate for children in the Fukushima area is 40 times higher than normal; tuna caught near California have signs of cesium traceable to Fukushima."
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For Whom the Whistle Blows: “The Kill Team”
August 14, 2014This documentary's real target market are those young impressionable people who have bought into the madness of Washington's endless imperial misadventures.
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Robey Theatre Company celebrates with Paul Robeson Theatre Festival
August 5, 2014The two-day Festival celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Robey Theatre Company, dedicated to developing "innovative new plays written about the Black experience."
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“Get On Up” says it loud: He’s Brown and he’s proud!
August 1, 2014Tate Taylor's well-directed Get On Up is the latest movie about tortured artiste who acts in self-destructive ways, a biopic about "The Godfather of Soul," James Brown.
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“Buddy”: The day the music… lived
July 30, 2014Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story is a highly entertaining musical about the meteoric rise - and, alas, fall -- of the 1950s rock 'n' roll icon.
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