Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘Boy Erased’ exposes so-called gay conversion therapy
November 8, 2018A whole industry has grown up around the fraudulent premise that homosexual orientation can simply be “prayed away.”
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Did the Blue Wave lap the California shore?
November 8, 2018How did one of the nation’s bluest states fare in the congressional elections?
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Murder, racism, demonization, and the “Court Jew” in Trump’s America
November 1, 2018The administration is studded with several Court Jews, those who saw in the Trump phenomenon a chance for enrichment and access to power.
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‘Vietgone’ enacts Vietnamese refugees’ many-sided experience in America
October 30, 2018The fearless Vietgone takes audiences on a rocky 1970s trip across the American landscape with a punchy soundtrack and elements of pop culture.
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The glorious, notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a traveling exhibition
October 26, 2018All phases of RBG’s life are covered—her varied roles including that of beloved cult figure.
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‘Radiant Vermin’ and ‘Steambath’ on stage: Goddammit, make your life worth living!
October 24, 2018Two plays, both at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, seen a day apart. One a living hell, the other a glimpse of post-mortem limbo.
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‘Shrek the Musical’ a welcome, but brief guest in Ventura County
October 23, 2018These fairy tale people—like the children in the audience—finally have the opportunity to escape the imposed societal narrative they’ve been handed, of being a failed version of who they were meant to become.
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The nuclear-age ‘War of Nerves’ and ‘Red Shoes’ politics of dance
October 18, 2018The USSR may be long gone, but the devotion it poured into culture and the arts in still on view worldwide.
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