Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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It can happen here: Three L.A. museums shine spotlights on Hollywood Blacklist
April 17, 2023Learning about yesterday’s anti-communist Reds-under-the-beds hysteria can empower us to resist today's rising tide of book banning, school curriculum gagging, censorship, disinformation, history denial, expulsions, redbaiting and more.
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Traffic jam at the juncture of Black and ‘Blue’
April 11, 2023The second I entered the Matrix Theatre on the opening night of June Carryl’s Blue, Rogue Machine’s new play immediately got me into the mood indigo.
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Brecht’s ‘The Mother’: The Revolution will not be dramatized
February 16, 2023Brecht’s 'The Mother' is a 1932 adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s 1906 novel of the same name about the 1905 Russian Revolution, which has been called “the dress rehearsal” for 1917’s Bolshevik Revolution.
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‘Southern Girls’: A ‘woke’ play suitable for banning in today’s Florida
February 1, 2023“The playwrights who wrote this absolutely lived it. The play is very authentic.”
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‘Ubu the King,’ a raunchy play from 1896, revived in Culver City
November 23, 2022Its fanciful lunacy won me over and I ended up quite enjoying this 40th anniversary revival and tribute to one of L.A.’s greatest theaters.
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Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist
October 13, 2022Members of the motion picture industry who refused to “cooperate” by informing on themselves and others about their leftist politics were forbidden from working in the movies.
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‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’: Still dreaming of Genie
August 25, 2022The beautiful-looking Longing is for fans of fantasy productions, such as HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon.
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Life of the party: Portrait of L.A.’s perpetual progressive Jan Goodman
August 1, 2022In The Tempest, Shakespeare mused “What’s past is prologue,” which is certainly true for Jan Goodman, whose radical roots set the stage for a lifetime of activism.
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