Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
‘The Young Karl Marx’ on the road to ‘The Communist Manifesto’
February 20, 2018If viewers comes to this film for the biopic—lush cinematography, sensitive lighting effects, well appointed interiors, period costumes, and attractive leads—they won’t be disappointed.
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Culture
“Israel in Egypt”: A Handel oratorio propagandizes for colonialism and war
February 15, 2018The context for this problematic work, subject to pointed discussion on musical, historical, political, theological and territorial grounds, has to be more transparent. Vague references to the generalized global exile and refugee experience simply looks like...
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Culture
“Water by the Spoonful”: Play overruns with compassion
February 15, 2018Quiara Alegría Hudes is a multi-talented creative force: a pianist and composer, lyricist and playwright. Knowing music as well as she does, she chose a particular musical form or genre for each of the "Elliot Trilogy"...
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Arts
“Dessa Rose”: A musical about slavery by the creators of “Ragtime”
February 14, 2018If you’re in or around L.A. and you like musical theatre and you appreciate some social messaging in it, then see this one.
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Culture
“Ironbound”: A gritty immigrant woman’s survival story
February 13, 2018Martyna Majok is an up-and-coming playwright whose work has already been seen at numerous theaters around the country.
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News
Richard Falk speaks on Israel and the question of apartheid
February 9, 2018Falk insisted it is only correct to look at the Palestinians as a coherent people, wherever they live, and not provide tacit consent to the fragmentation both geographical and political to which Israel has subjected them.
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Culture
We who would be king: Gilbert and Sullivan’s utopian “The Gondoliers”
February 7, 2018While all of Gilbert & Sullivan’s work pointedly skewers the British class and caste system with a poison-tipped pen, none goes quite so far as The Gondoliers in actually offering a blueprint for the classless society.
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Opinion
How Donald Trump killed hope for a Palestinian state
February 2, 2018Trump’s Jerusalem decision shattered the path to peace and killed any hope for a Palestinian state, setting Israel-Palestine on a short path to fully realized apartheid.
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