Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
‘Valley of the Heart’ by Luis Valdez in exuberant WWII era production
November 14, 2018"I use the theater not just to enlighten but to touch the hearts of people. If we can touch the heart, maybe we can do something to bring justice to our lives.”
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Culture
‘Finks’ and ‘The Little Foxes’: The blacklist echoes through the decades
November 14, 2018"It was perhaps a celebration of human courage in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Now, the past the play portrays echoes in our everyday world."
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Culture
Fountain Theatre explores disability in Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Cost of Living’
November 13, 2018Perhaps more than anything, Cost of Living examines the human need for one another, and what we do to get what that need demands of us.
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Culture
‘Boy Erased’ exposes so-called gay conversion therapy
November 8, 2018A whole industry has grown up around the fraudulent premise that homosexual orientation can simply be “prayed away.”
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Politics
Did the Blue Wave lap the California shore?
November 8, 2018How did one of the nation’s bluest states fare in the congressional elections?
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Politics
Murder, racism, demonization, and the “Court Jew” in Trump’s America
November 1, 2018The administration is studded with several Court Jews, those who saw in the Trump phenomenon a chance for enrichment and access to power.
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Culture
‘Vietgone’ enacts Vietnamese refugees’ many-sided experience in America
October 30, 2018The fearless Vietgone takes audiences on a rocky 1970s trip across the American landscape with a punchy soundtrack and elements of pop culture.
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Culture
The glorious, notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a traveling exhibition
October 26, 2018All phases of RBG’s life are covered—her varied roles including that of beloved cult figure.
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