Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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“Moby-Dick”: Melville’s masterpiece gets an operatic treatment
November 2, 2015Although it has some fishy alterations, this is a mind-blowing production.
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“Scott and Hem”: An imagined second act of the crack up
October 27, 2015Mark St. Germain's "Scott and Hem" imagines a 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meetup in Hollywood.
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Something for everyone: The sounds of Sondheim
October 26, 2015This bio-play of Stephen Sondheim dominates footage projected on a screen above the stage with six live singer/dancers onstage accompanied by a four-piece orchestra.
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“The Exit Interview (An Existential Comedy)” in L.A.
October 23, 2015If you want to get your Brecht on, and have a rip-roaring time, head on down to Hollywood's Theatre Row for a good laugh.
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“All My Sons”: Arthur Miller’s scathing critique of capitalism
October 22, 2015If you are a fan of drama you just owe it to yourself to see this play.
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War and anti-war films at Zürich Film Festival
October 15, 2015NGO workers entangled behind the lines of a combat zone during the final days of former Yugoslavia's warfare; Danes embroiled in Afghanistan.
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The Chile coup and Pinochet’s “Christian” torture chamber in “Colonia”
October 9, 2015German director Florian Gallenberger's Colonia is arguably this year's Zürich Film Festival's hardest-hitting film.
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Media exposés in new films “Spotlight” and “The Program”
October 8, 2015"Spotlight" deals with the heavy subject matter of child abuse perpetrated by those posturing as Christians.
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