Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Dinner, deaths, and fetishism of the dollar in new L.A. comedy
April 8, 2016Her play is loosely based on the Bernard Madoff scandal, the former stockbroker and investment adviser who thrived in the roaring George W. years until the bubble burst in 2008.
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“A Singular They”: Intersex drama explores teenage angst
March 31, 2016Most coming of age stories don't also involve deciding what gender you want to be. That's the dilemma facing the lead character in this play.
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New opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
March 23, 2016It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
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New play confronts Alaskan Native and Caucasian worlds
March 21, 2016In this play, an angry teenager from a troubled home in Juneau is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote fishing village.
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“Rosenkavalier”: A still-felt operatic kiss to a dying empire
March 17, 2016"The Chevalier of the Rose," which premiered in Dresden in 1911, is Richard Strauss's best known and most loved opera.
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Suffering the insufferable because of economic insecurity: Women in the economy
March 10, 2016A large number of presenters addressed several aspects of the crisis of women's work today.
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Political thriller with music about Japanese HIV scandal impresses L.A.
March 10, 2016Fast moving, eye-catching, colorful, deeply affecting, cathartic, and redemptive.
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“Anthracite Fields” earns Pulitzer for music about Pennsylvania coal miners
March 8, 2016The working class has gained a new champion in the concert hall with the rise of composer Julia Wolfe.
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