Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Wildly funny political satire ‘The Outsider’ exposes sorry secrets of electoral appeal
June 20, 2024Politics these days is hardly a laughing matter, but there’s always a privileged spot for satire irrespective of how grim the forecast.
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The robots are coming! R. U. R.eady for ‘R.U.R. Cabaret?’
June 7, 2024R.U.R. Cabaret, the musical, running about 90 minutes with one intermission, is set in a dystopian future on an island where the robots were originally created to do the work of humans and labor for them...
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To Pahatlabong and back: ‘The Explorers Club’ slow-roasts Victorian imperialism
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‘Taking Venice’: How the U.S. did it
June 4, 2024The film is structured as a suspense story, though we know the conclusion before we even set foot in the theater. The musical score helps to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
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‘The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America’ finally appears in English
May 30, 2024Joseph Cohen’s monumental work has long been regarded as a seminal, if not definitive, source of detailed information and impressions on the topic of Jewish anarchism in America.
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‘Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy’ in world premiere
May 22, 2024“Mix-Mix” is an English translation of “Halo-Halo,” a dessert that’s a mixture of jellies, tapioca pearls, fruit, beans, corn, shaved ice, condensed milk and ice cream—an appropriate metaphor for the mixed cultures that came together as...
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Women’s liberation comes to the world of mariachi in Los Angeles premiere
May 14, 2024Funny how the theme of oppression of women keeps coming back in the playhouse.
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Oliver Mayer’s ‘Ghost Waltz’ about Indigenous Mexican composer Juventino Rosas receives world premiere
May 7, 2024The story is an important one, and it is told with great imagination and a wonderful score of waltzes, polkas, classical song, opera and ragtime.
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