Ed Rampell

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell

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  “Reaching for the Moon”: Love dares speak its name

  December 4, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  I really liked this movie, mainly because of its unusual characters based on actual historical figures.

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  Mozart, propagandist, in new rendering of old classic

  November 27, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  The current version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute at Los Angeles Opera raises two essential artistic questions (plus, perhaps, eyebrows).

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  Rushes to judgment: Top 10 assassination / conspiracy movies

  November 22, 2013 By Ed Rampell

  Conventional thinkers, hacks and propagandists may seek to perpetrate and perpetuate lone gunman, magic bullet and other cover-ups about assassinations and the like - but the big screen knows better!

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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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