Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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‘The Clemency of Titus,’ Mozart’s morality play about the enlightened leader
March 7, 2019Mozart’s The Clemency of Titus (La Clemenza di Tito), dramatizes part of the life and reign of the Roman emperor Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus.
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Wrap-up of the 27th annual Pan African Film Festival
March 4, 2019The L.A.-based Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF) continued to emit a dazzling light of brilliant positivity and hope.
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An ‘Othello’ for our time: Was Shakespeare a white supremacist or anti-racist?
February 20, 2019Fresh from that championship season, A Noise Within’s Spring 2019 season blasts off with a must-see modern dress Othello.
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‘An Inspector Calls’: A super supernatural socialist show
January 28, 2019As the British emerged victoriously from WWII, having fought a “people’s war,” the masses wanted something to show for their six-year-long struggle.
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How will Trump’s presidency end? Seven ways it may
January 14, 2019Assessing the unprecedented nature of Trump’s presidency and its fate requires thinking outside of the conventional boxes of politics. Thus it stands to reason Trump may leave the White House in an unconventional, if not a...
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‘Desert Rats’: TV or not TV? That is the question
January 9, 2019Desert Rats was the first live play of the New Year I saw and is a kickass way to kick off 2019.
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George H.W. Bush, dirty tricks, and regime change in nuclear-free Palau
January 4, 2019To find out who commits a crime, see who benefits from it.
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‘Aquaman’: The life aquatic with Hawaiian Polynesian Power superhero Jason Momoa
January 3, 2019If noisy action, violence, CGI and other eye-popping special effects in a superhero movie is your thing, then you will love the mind-boggling Aquaman.
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