Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘Sobibor’ dramatizes a successful heroic revolt in a Nazi death camp
March 28, 2019In 2018, resistance fighters around the world commemorated the 75th anniversary of the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda,’ a feminist ode to teachers, dazzles as a musical
March 26, 2019The protagonist is a precocious 5-year-old girl with mystical psychic powers, a love of reading and a gift for wild, inventive storytelling, who overcomes the cruel fate of being born into a family of con-job masters...
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‘The Wolves’ explores the inner lives of a girls’ soccer team
March 22, 2019Girls’ and women’s sports may still be underreported and undervalued, but it seems it’s a hot subject in the theatre right now.
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A requiem could be sacred or secular: It’s the same grief
March 21, 2019The final bows, with an all-women cast of conductor, composer and the three poets, seemed like a fitting tribute to Women’s History Month!
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‘The Joy Wheel’ and “Friends with Guns’: Survivalist apocalypse has arrived
March 19, 2019Despite my own reaction to the play—perhaps because of it—I believe this is a highly important play for our time.
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‘Lackawanna Blues’ a theatrical triumph for Ruben Santiago-Hudson
March 15, 2019It’s a thrilling piece of documentary theatrical memoir, a record and eulogy to a time and place we’ll never see again.
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Dissident voices in declining powers: Two exhibitions at the Wende Museum
March 14, 2019Viewers may have to set some of their biases outside the door and expect to be challenged by what they see at the Wende.
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‘Pure Native,’ ‘Too Much Sun,’ ‘Home’: Three plays about home
March 13, 2019Three plays running now in L.A. are centered around notions of home.
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