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Einstein on the Beach: A Prematurely Air-Conditioned Opera — Crashing the Musical Glass Ceiling

By Ed Rampell

o, you know, I was in “a prematurely air-conditioned” opera house to experience composer Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach. Instead of the traditional opera with horned helmets and bronze breastplates I encountered a four hour, four act, nonstop multi-media happening that shatters the musical Glass ceiling of operatic work with new modes of expression. […]

Posted on October 13, 2013

The Sunshine Boys: Simple Simon and Well Cast If Odd Couple

By Ed Rampell

he best thing about Center Theatre Group’s revival of Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys is its canny casting. At the heart of this comedy is the reunion of a hit vaudeville team, Lewis and Clark, who were  known during their 43-year-long run as “the Sunshine Boys,” haven’t performed together — or seen one another — […]

Posted on October 3, 2013

Lab Rat: Of Mice and Übermensch

By Ed Rampell

Flowers for Agernon Theatre Review his is the second time this weekend I wished to see a play that is based on the same source material as two of my favorite 1968 films I originally saw when I was a boy were derived from. The theatrical version of James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter that’s […]

Posted on October 1, 2013

Lion in Winter: Long Day’s Journey into Knight

By Ed Rampell

ames Goldman’s The Lion in Winter is an actor’s actor piece of theater. The 1968 movie adaptation with bravura acting by Peter O’Toole as England’s King Henry II and Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine left an indelible impression on me when I was a boy. The supporting (!) cast included Anthony Hopkins as Richard […]

Posted on September 29, 2013

Awake and Sing: Group Rep Presents Rousingly Resonant Clifford Classic

By Ed Rampell

love me some Clifford Odets, and I guess you can call me a “groupie” who’ll see any play by the Group Theatre’s greatest dramatist. Newcomers to Odets’ oeuvre as well as long-time fans familiar with this avatar of proletarian theater are in for a treat at North Hollywood’s Lonny Chapman Theatre. If you look “good […]

Posted on September 26, 2013

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