Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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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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Praying for a Blue Wave: Harley Rouda works to flip Orange County
October 16, 2018With the settlement of so many immigrants and the economy's move away from agriculture, demographics in Orange County have shifted toward Democrats.
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‘hillbilly’ and ‘Life and Nothing More’: Two films about soul-crushing poverty
October 16, 2018Two new films are currently on the horizon that are well worth seeing.
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Andrew Janz mounts vigorous campaign against Trump lapdog Devin Nunes
October 10, 2018Nunes voted against the DREAM Act, for Trump’s wall, to dismantle Medicare and privatize Social Security, and to slash taxes for corporations and the rich.
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