Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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“Blueprint for Paradise”: A polished drama about Nazis for our time
August 9, 2016The ruins of the Murphy Ranch, an abandoned pre-WWII Nazi compound in Pacific Palisades, have inspired a new play.
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“The Suitcase”: Europe’s and America’s Holocausts seen from the Shawng Zeleezay
August 5, 2016The ambitious Echo Theater Company is now staging the United States premiere of a surrealistic Polish play about the Holocaust.
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Meeropol brothers launch petition to exonerate their mother, Ethel Rosenberg
August 3, 2016In the light of newly uncovered evidence, a campaign is now underway to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg.
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New history (with comics) recounts humanity’s long march toward reason
August 2, 2016These stories of humanists through history are framed as struggles against the authority of the church, which controlled almost every aspect of life for millennia.
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Blinded by the bright lights of Hollywood and “Café Society”
July 29, 2016How Woody Allen keeps 'em coming on such a high level of interest is a phenomenon of continued creative juices still flowing in the senior decades.
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Human trafficking and sex slavery: The opera
July 22, 2016Set amidst a maelstrom of deception, secrecy and violence, Anya17 emphasizes young girls' aspirations for comfort and freedom in "the West."
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Two plays about “command rape” – in war and in the office
July 22, 2016Two plays about how men use rape to exert power over the women they conquer, command, and employ.
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Pastors for Peace, Cuban activists talk renewable energy, LGBT Pride
July 20, 2016America must finally and fully overcome its antipathy toward living in peaceful coexistence with a neighboring state with a different political system than ours.
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