Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Atonement and redemption in stage treatments of commies, religion, reality TV
August 21, 2018Who doesn’t love a good redemption story?
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‘Yiddish Glory’ CD records Jewish pain and resistance in World War II
August 20, 2018Even as WWII was still raging, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars undertook an ambitious project of preserving Jewish culture of the 1940s while and soon after it was created. Linguists, folklorists, and historians joined to...
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The 1802 Haitian Revolution on stage: Liberty, equality and fraternity for all
August 14, 2018I can’t imagine that theatergoers will ever get a chance to see this work again—unless a film director might take it on as a project (hint, hint). Take my advice and see it while you can!
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Dylan Thomas’s ‘Under Milk Wood’ receives an inspired stage production
August 1, 2018Open Fist Theatre Company just unveiled its interpretation of Under Milk Wood, originally written as a 1954 radio play but revived from time to time as a stage work and in film.
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The world burns as global warming crisis explodes
July 31, 2018People coughing, suffocating, dying. Everywhere. The fires of hell are right here on Earth.
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Hear Beethoven roar in Hershey Felder’s new biographical treatment
July 30, 2018There can be little disagreement that Hershey Felder is the greatest one-man “theatrical impressionist” interpreting the lives of the great composers.
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Marc Blitzstein’s ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ now recorded with full orchestra
July 27, 2018The Cradle Will Rock finally achieved what the composer-librettist had always imagined: A fully orchestrated staged production.
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Turgenev’s ‘Three Days in the Country’ a lusty romp of social commentary
July 26, 2018A version of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, rewritten by playwright Patrick Marber, is now enjoying its West Coast premiere production by the Antaeus Theatre Company.
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