Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘The Mother of Henry’: An anti-war play in 1960s East L.A.
April 3, 2019While not groundbreaking theatre, it does relate an important and effective story that a lot of people can relate to.
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Interviewing the principals of San Francisco’s Hollywood Blacklist festival
April 2, 2019By viewing these films and reading these articles in People’s World, audiences are ending the blacklisting of, among others, Hugo Butler, Edward Huebsch and George Pepper.
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Daniel Amat and his jazz conjunto wow in Cuban classical music
March 29, 2019There were no tricks of the trade that the exuberant madman Amat did not know or exploit.
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‘Sobibor’ dramatizes a successful heroic revolt in a Nazi death camp
March 28, 2019In 2018, resistance fighters around the world commemorated the 75th anniversary of the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda,’ a feminist ode to teachers, dazzles as a musical
March 26, 2019The protagonist is a precocious 5-year-old girl with mystical psychic powers, a love of reading and a gift for wild, inventive storytelling, who overcomes the cruel fate of being born into a family of con-job masters...
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‘The Wolves’ explores the inner lives of a girls’ soccer team
March 22, 2019Girls’ and women’s sports may still be underreported and undervalued, but it seems it’s a hot subject in the theatre right now.
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A requiem could be sacred or secular: It’s the same grief
March 21, 2019The final bows, with an all-women cast of conductor, composer and the three poets, seemed like a fitting tribute to Women’s History Month!
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‘The Joy Wheel’ and “Friends with Guns’: Survivalist apocalypse has arrived
March 19, 2019Despite my own reaction to the play—perhaps because of it—I believe this is a highly important play for our time.
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