Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Arts
Ronnie Gilbert’s “Radical Life in Song”
September 6, 2016A memoir isn't a well-researched biography by a historian; it is a remembering fat with feelings; this is a gloriously personal invitation to us to see how she saw it.
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“Dutch Masters”: A terse, tense dissection of race in America
September 1, 2016"The deeper I investigated, the more I related to what these characters are searching for and the ideas that are dramatized."
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“Next to Normal,” brave, hyperactive musical on a small stage
August 30, 2016It promises "an emotional rollercoaster, an inspiring and touching, if not transformative, experience for audiences," and largely succeeds despite the questionable premises of the book itself.
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“A Raisin in the Sun,” theatrical gem now in Santa Monica
August 30, 2016If by some chance you are unfamiliar with this play, it's time to get to know it; those who know it will find this a fresh, intimate and revelatory production.
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Environment
Iceland: These mossy stones spin a story of Western democracy
August 26, 2016Here, an informed and conscious people are committed to figuring out how advanced welfare-state principles can continue to serve both humans and nature.
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Labor
Sofitel hotel workers in L.A. invisible no more
August 10, 2016Workers at the tony Sofitel in Beverly Hills are fed up with rampant wage theft, sexual harassment, and unsafe conditions.
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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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