Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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‘Last Night at Mikell’s’ with James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Miles Davis
April 18, 2025The play imagines a final meeting of the minds at their beloved and historic gathering place.
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AOC, Sanders, Baez, Neil Young, rock the free world at L.A. ‘Bernie-chella’
April 16, 2025Themes of class struggle, people power, labor militancy, and anti-authoritarianism ignite the massive Fighting Oligarchy rally.
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‘Jane Eyre’: Charlotte’s web captures Me Rochester, You Jane on stage
April 8, 2025Jeanne Syquia embodies the title character’s intensity, integrity, intellect and sensitivity with her finely etched portrait of the 19ish-year-old governess yearning to breathe free.
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Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival: Theatre review
April 1, 2025Annual festival and gala honors multi-cultural one-woman shows—and then some.
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Take me to your reader: ‘Don Quixote,’ ‘Daily Worker’ for Florida’s cigarmakers
March 10, 2025The production has elements of proletarian theater and uses Brechtian techniques. Ybor City is also imaginatively staged in cinematic ways, incorporating projections of waves, the moon, musicians and more, plus a montage at the end.
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‘Bacon’ stageplay explores sexuality, toxic masculinity, and class politics
February 11, 2025The play explores the fraught relationship between two troubled young men as they come to grips with their sexuality and trauma.
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Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’: Euthanasia takes a holiday
January 6, 2025This is an excellently acted drama about a very serious subject—death, and how we face it.
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Walter Salles’ fact-based ‘I’m Still Here,’ among the best recent political films
December 5, 2024It succeeds so completely because it is very much a family drama, but one that shows how politics can profoundly affect a family.
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