Ed Rampell

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell

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  In Verdi’s “Falstaff,” all the world’s a jest

  November 18, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  What better way to celebrate Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's bicentennial than with a production of Falstaff?

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  Thrills are alive with sound of Audra McDonald

  October 31, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  Audra McDonald revealed herself as not only possessing a stellar soprano voice, but also a sparkling wit, winning personality and a strong social consciousness and conscience.

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  “The Lion in Winter” delivers royal drama with rip-roaring wit

  October 29, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  John Rafter Lee and Diane Hurley deliver bravura turns as the title character and his imprisoned, estranged wife Eleanor.

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  “The Summit:” Adventure, death, jaw-dropping cinematography

  October 9, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  The Summit provokes many questions, but should appeal to aficionados of adventure (in particular mountaineering).

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  “Awake and Sing!”: Classic proletarian theater, so timely

  September 27, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  Newcomers to the work of Clifford Odets, the Group Theatre's greatest dramatist, as well as longtime fans familiar with this avatar of proletarian theater, are in for a treat at North Hollywood's Lonny Chapman Theatre.

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  Che Guevara of antiquity on stage in “Prometheus Bound”

  September 10, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound is this southern California theater season's exceptional undertaking of transcendent artistry with insight into and about the human condition and spirit.

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  “Red”: Abstract art’s odd couple makes great drama

  August 29, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  John Logan's multiple Tony Award-winning Red is a theatrical time machine that transports audiences back to those heady days when abstract expressionism was the vogue.

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  “Nickel and Dimed” – rich drama of working poor

  August 19, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  The crisis of capitalism has led to a glorious rebirth of left-leaning theatre: Nickel and Dimed is one of this dissident wave's finest, most compelling dramas.

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