Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy’ in world premiere
May 22, 2024“Mix-Mix” is an English translation of “Halo-Halo,” a dessert that’s a mixture of jellies, tapioca pearls, fruit, beans, corn, shaved ice, condensed milk and ice cream—an appropriate metaphor for the mixed cultures that came together as...
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Women’s liberation comes to the world of mariachi in Los Angeles premiere
May 14, 2024Funny how the theme of oppression of women keeps coming back in the playhouse.
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Oliver Mayer’s ‘Ghost Waltz’ about Indigenous Mexican composer Juventino Rosas receives world premiere
May 7, 2024The story is an important one, and it is told with great imagination and a wonderful score of waltzes, polkas, classical song, opera and ragtime.
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‘H*tler’s Tasters’: Four young women waiting for Adolf in expressionistic, absurdist play
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Stalin, Zhdanov, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich star in ‘Stalin’s Master Class’
April 22, 2024Politics collide with art, terror, and rich helpings of morbid comic relief when “Father of the People” Joseph Stalin and Soviet Cultural Minister Andrei Zhdanov summon the Soviet Union’s two most eminent composers, Sergei Prokofiev and...
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‘Pender Denton—Outlaw’: An affecting, understated Old West gay love story
April 18, 2024The love that dared not speak its name has been shouting from the rooftops for well over half-a-century now. And in Martin David’s new book, it’s making an appearance at an even earlier time.
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August Wilson’s ‘King Hedley II’ continues the playwright’s ‘American Century Cycle’
April 10, 2024King Hedley II is a tautly conceived, densely plotted play with six characters.
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‘Power & Light’ shows clash of genius between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla
April 4, 2024The play tracks more than half a century of inspiration and invention as we come to understand some of the intellectual processes that eventually took the world to the technological landscape we know today.
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