Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Interracial unity ends discriminatory ‘Mexican Day’ at L.A.’s Bimini Baths
June 27, 2018It was a gift to experience this trilogy in all its historical, cultural and artful depth.
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‘The Humans’: 2016 Tony Award-winning Best Play dissects American social decline
June 26, 2018Maybe just zeroing in on the problems of an inhumane society is enough to stir the conscience.
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The struggle for democracy continues: German and American perspectives
June 22, 2018The struggle for democracy is in high gear—or as they say in the global South, a luta continua, the struggle continues.
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Washing the crime away: ‘Tar’ and ‘The Women of Lockerbie’
June 20, 2018My weekend playgoing curiously featured two plays centered on the theme of washing crime away.
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‘Skeleton Crew’: Detroit workers’ jobs, homes, pensions, and lives on the line
June 18, 2018This play enacts the hollowing-out of American industry in the Great Recession years that began late in George W. Bush’s presidency.
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Young Asian-Americans pursue dreams of success in ‘As We Babble On’
June 12, 2018As America moves toward ever greater multi-ethnic nationality, will more democratic racial and gender representation in the halls of success do anything to alter the hardening class divide?
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Two operatic divas, Regina and Violetta, take St. Louis by storm
June 11, 2018Two strong operatic characters from works composed almost a century apart show the mettle of women who’ve been challenged by society’s conventions.
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‘An American Soldier’: New opera asks troubling questions about citizenship
June 8, 2018Hazing becomes racial harassment becomes sadistic torture becomes death. This was the experience of Pvt. Danny Chen in the U.S. Army.
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