Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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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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Artist Ben Shahn was moved by the Tom Mooney case
July 25, 2018Ben Shahn was moved in the early 1930s to paint a series of works based on the infamous Tom Mooney case. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) currently has a display of these works...
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‘Mayakovsky and Stalin’ stride the stage in an L.A. world premiere
July 24, 2018Mednick devotes some attention to the pre-revolutionary era, when Stalin and Mayakovsky were both unscrupulous brigands for the cause; we see that theoretically, at least, they are on the same side.
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World premiere love story ‘Arrival & Departure’ features Deaf and hearing actors
July 17, 2018In Stephen Sachs reinterpretation, Sam, a Deaf man (Troy Kotsur), and Emily, a hard-of-hearing woman (Deanne Bray), two married strangers, meet by chance in a New York City subway station. Their casual friendship evolves over the...
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Injecting life into socialism: Post-1956 Hungarian art and Soviet flower power
July 12, 2018If you have received opinions, best leave them at the door when you visit the Wende Museum of the Cold War.
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Hopefully ‘Cabaret’ will seem dated some day, but we’re nowhere there yet
July 10, 2018Cabaret entertains mightily, with remarkably good singing-actor voices, as its chilling messages creep into your bones.
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Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles takes a knee
July 3, 2018A ten-year landmark has just passed in this city. Only a few thousand people took notice of it, but wow, did they stand up and cheer!
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‘Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America’
July 2, 2018Clearly not meant to be “read like a novel,” as a work of scholarship in a field of profound interest to radicals, it merits a worthy place on your shelf.
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