Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ stuns with dance, vocals, and spectacle
July 14, 2022The show pays homage to over 160 years of music, from Jacques Offenbach, who reveled in the cancan era, to Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Soft Cell, the Eurhythmics, White Stripes, and countless others.
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Is ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ a gigantic Broadway ‘afterschool special?’
July 7, 2022The performance is riveting, with fine delivery all around.
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‘The Braille Legacy’: Musical stars an all-blind cast
July 6, 2022History was made last weekend when a musical about the inventor of the Braille alphabet that first premiered in London at the Savory and Charing Cross Theatre in 2017, received its American premiere.
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‘To T, or Not To T? A Comedic Trans Journey through (T)estosterone and Masculinity’
July 5, 2022It turns out that, uh, like most important art, the specific becomes the universal once you peel back the cultural dress and uncover the human skin beneath it.
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‘The Beautiful People’: America’s toxic epidemic of hypermasculinity
July 1, 2022“This season at Rogue Machine we’ve committed ourselves to having difficult conversations."
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Peter Lownds explains how and why he translated a recent Brazilian novel
June 27, 2022International Publishers has just released Never-Ending Youth, a recent novel by Northeast Brazilian writer Urariano Mota, in Peter Lownds’s translation.
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‘Kinderland’: A documentary visit to two century-old secular Jewish summer camps
June 24, 2022The film short Kinderland tells the story of two camps in upstate New York that have cultivated social activists for almost a century and are still in existence today.
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Visiting or living in Los Angeles? Consult the ‘People’s Guide’
June 16, 2022The book is ten years old but still worth checking out.
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