Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
‘Shanghai Sonatas’ receives world premiere: Displaced Jews and Chinese under Japanese occupation
March 28, 2023The originality of the concept and the generally high quality of both book and score combine to make the musical’s popular success likely.
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Culture
Israeli dramatist Hanoch Levin’s ‘Yaacobi & Leidental’ in U.S. premiere
March 22, 2023Even as we laugh at the antics of the brash Yaacobi, the timid shlemiel Leidental, and the not-as-sweet-as-she-looks Ruth Shahash, we are reminded of our own shared human frailty in the face of desire and suffering.
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Culture
Dalí, Brathwaite, Soin: Dialogues about change at the Art Institute of Chicago
March 20, 2023A high-powered draw at the Art Institute.
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Culture
Private detective Harry Palmer returns in ‘The Precinct with the Golden Arm’
March 15, 2023In Precinct, Broe’s attention turns to the seamy world of the LAPD, a major prop for a racist political and economic system.
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Politics
People’s World—the home for people’s culture
March 9, 2023People’s World makes a critical contribution to the American mediascape—and we do it without a dime of corporate cash.
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Culture
‘The Last Sorcerer,’ 1867 opera by Pauline Garcia Viardot, receives world premiere
March 9, 2023It was billed as a “World Premiere 155 years in the making.”
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Culture
‘The Secret Garden,’ musical created by two stellar women, revived in L.A.
March 7, 2023Time hailed the original production as “elegant, entrancing... The best American musical of the Broadway season.”
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Culture
‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ explores the world of true-ish journalism
February 24, 2023“The play urges us to take a harder look at the content we read and the stories we’re told—even from sources we trust."
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