Ed Rampell
By Ed Rampell
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The Schmooze ‘Rachel Corrie’ Controversy Comes to LA
The controversy surrounding “My Name is Rachel Corrie” has followed the play to Los Angeles. The one-woman show, starring Samara Frame as the 23-year-old American activist who was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, opened this month at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, an outdoor theater space in Topanga Canyon. According to artistic director…
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Culture Lulu’s Back in Town
‘Mlle. God” opens with an aging painter named Melville wooing the sexually liberated Lulu. Annika Marks’s bravura performance channels the almost divine sensuality from Franz Wedekind’s “Lulu” plays and G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film “Pandora’s Box,” upon which Nick Kazan’s new work is loosely based. Unlike those dramas, though, the play’s goal is not simply sensual…
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