Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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‘A View from the Bridge’: It’s a Miller time, of rats and men
August 22, 2023Bridge is a searing exploration of troubled family dynamics, incestuous urges and repressed homosexuality, betrayal, as well as a dramatization of the plight of “illegal” immigrants.
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‘Walid’ tracks down child traffickers in new Malaysian martial arts film
August 16, 2023The first hour emphasizes the importance of education and thoughtfully dramatizes the problem of the commodification of children and their abductions in the Third World.
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East meets West meets Topanga in Terrence McNally’s ‘A Perfect Ganesh’
August 1, 2023The two-act play is well-acted and spiced with humor, as Katharine and Margaret are the classic fish-out-of-water characters, with all the comic implications that holds.
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‘Queen Margaret’s Version of Shakespeare’s War of the Roses’: A theater review
July 14, 2023A perfectly captured damaged spirit of a character whom the world made suffer because of his physical differences, and is therefore hellbent on vengeance.
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‘Garden of Alla: The Alla Nazimova Story’: Brilliant one-woman theater
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The Champ and the Chump: Colliding worlds in ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’
July 6, 2023Recommended for theatergoers who love: Great acting, stories about racism, Muhammad Ali, film history, boxing, and searching for what lies beneath the surface to discover the substance.
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Passing the baton: The Memphis metaphysics of Martin Luther King in ‘The Mountaintop’
June 26, 2023Hill finds the nuance in depicting a character with the status of a prophet, but who is, as those picket signs of the sanitation strikers he’s supporting declare, “a man,” after all.
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The real and reel Ava Gardner: What price celebrityhood?
April 25, 2023As a film historian, when I heard a bioplay was being mounted about silver screen siren Ava Gardner at one of L.A.’s finest theaters, the Geffen Playhouse, it was “Westwood Ho!” for moi.
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