Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘The Traitor’: How one man brought the Italian Cosa Nostra down
January 31, 2020The cinematography is highly appealing, making a film about some despicable characters eminently watchable.
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F.W. Murnau’s ‘Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans’ has thrilling new score
January 31, 2020This is a film town But there’s no period at the end of that sentence because L.A. is so much more.
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A marvel of inventiveness in two one-acts from Pacific Opera Project
January 29, 2020You wouldn’t have to be an opera lover to love Pacific Opera Project’s latest venture, a double bill of two 20th-century works.
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‘The Last Ship’ is a stunning masterpiece of working-class musical theatre
January 27, 2020Another self-conscious aspect of the musical genre that creeps in from time to time comes in some of the solos when singers default into crooning Broadway vocal production, particularly in the amorous, yearning songs.
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‘Nowhere on the Border,’ an engrossing play on our conscience
January 24, 2020A soul-wrenching, laser-beamed treatment of the emotional and economic issues around cross-border migration from Mexico into the U.S. Southwest.
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What the Constitution means to everyone living in America
January 23, 2020Provocative, absorbing and attention-grabbing in every way, if the Constitution means anything to you, see What the Constitution Means to Me.
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Los Angeles women on the march: Turn this country around
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World premiere ‘Sunday Dinner’: Family dysfunction writ large on a small stage
January 17, 2020They’re all there, every one of them a character and a half. The Materas are one family you won’t soon forget.
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