Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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The life of Frida Kahlo, an opera waiting to happen
June 22, 2017Two hours before each performance at MOLAA, Frida ticket holders will have free exclusive access to the exhibit, “Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray."
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New film “20 Weeks” asks, To birth or not to birth?
June 21, 2017With no plot complications outside the blinkered focus on the couple to distract us, the film seems dogged and redundant.
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Unsatisfying self-satisfied lives depicted in South African film
June 20, 2017Writer/director Kagiso Lediga’s new film Catching Feelings received its world premiere on June 18 at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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Unsatisfying self-satisfied lives depicted in South African film
June 19, 2017Catching Feelings is billed as a “highly nuanced dark romantic comedy.” Now “comedy” is when no one gets killed, so it’s a broad term that can encompass a lot.
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The ever-controversial Caesar comes out in Lou Harrison opera
June 16, 2017Let’s go back to a time maybe 35 years or so before he was murdered at age 55, when Caesar was coming into his manhood, a bright, athletic fellow.
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Marc Blitzstein, “The Cradle Will Rock” and gay pride
June 16, 2017American composer Marc Blitzstein’s “play in music” The Cradle Will Rock takes place in Steeltown, U.S.A., on the night of a union drive.
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One-woman play “Tough Brown Leather,” a sexual survivor’s story
June 13, 2017The play itself spools out like a highly condensed therapy session in which long-suppressed memories come out for professional examination.
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Resistance trumps pride at annual LGBTQ march in L.A.
June 13, 2017Tens of thousands of Angelenos showed up on Sunday because they had a very clear idea of what the GOP had in store for them and they didn’t care for it one bit.
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