Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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‘Memnon’: Harlem comes to Malibu (ancient Black Lives Matter too)
September 12, 2024The approximately 80-minute one-act play can be a bit talky with lengthy monologues or soliloquies, although I imagine this may be how some Greek dramas were presented in those ancient amphitheaters under the starry Grecian skies...
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Fighting racism on two fronts: ‘The Double V’ on stage
August 28, 2024Carole Eglash-Kosoff has thankfully rescued an important chapter in human rights history from obscurity and crafted an enjoyable anti-racist, antifascist, feminist drama about Blacks joining the crusade to make the world safe for democracy.
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Bridging the great cultural chasm: A fractured comic fairy tale of ‘Human Error’
August 13, 2024Beyond our dogmas and ideological differences, we’re only human, and to err is human, while to laugh is divine.
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Arthurian legends, Cold War realpolitik and sexual politics in ‘Camelot’
July 31, 2024Set in medieval England, Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Camelot, one of Broadway’s top musicals of all time, is as fabled as the legends this play is derived from.
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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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