Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘Witness Uganda’ musical takes on neocolonialism, sexuality, AIDS, and rocks!
February 28, 2019The Uganda-set song and dance show now winding up its residency here at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts has an unusual subtitle: A Documentary Musical.
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‘Two Trains Running’ is August Wilson’s 1960s play in his Pittsburgh Cycle
February 27, 2019Despite my questions about the play itself, the production is a triumph.
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‘America Adjacent’ world premiere explores high cost of American Dream
February 26, 2019In America Adjacent, the playwright asks, “How far would you go to give your child a better future?”
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‘The Sacred Veil’ opens hearts to the poignancy of death and loss
February 22, 2019Every culture has its ways of honoring the sacredness of life—and of death.
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‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ treats disability, poverty, cruelty with dark humor
February 21, 2019I found myself not understanding every word uttered, but after a while not caring, for McDonagh clearly finds joy purely in the gift of language itself.
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Teachers win victory for public education in L.A. strike settlement
January 23, 2019The strike began on Mon., Jan. 14, and lasted all that week through four days of steady rain until the skies cleared on Fri.
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Walking and talking with L.A. teachers on strike
January 23, 2019Angelenos are a lot wiser now as to what they’re up against—nothing less than the destruction and selloff of our public ownership of schools.
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‘Period. End of Sentence.’ Short documentary about menstruation and sanitary pads
January 18, 2019The film gives us scenes of awkward young women and men interviewed as to what they actually know about menstruation.
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