Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Oliver Mayer’s ‘Ghost Waltz’ about Indigenous Mexican composer Juventino Rosas receives world premiere
May 7, 2024The story is an important one, and it is told with great imagination and a wonderful score of waltzes, polkas, classical song, opera and ragtime.
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‘H*tler’s Tasters’: Four young women waiting for Adolf in expressionistic, absurdist play
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Stalin, Zhdanov, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich star in ‘Stalin’s Master Class’
April 22, 2024Politics collide with art, terror, and rich helpings of morbid comic relief when “Father of the People” Joseph Stalin and Soviet Cultural Minister Andrei Zhdanov summon the Soviet Union’s two most eminent composers, Sergei Prokofiev and...
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‘Pender Denton—Outlaw’: An affecting, understated Old West gay love story
April 18, 2024The love that dared not speak its name has been shouting from the rooftops for well over half-a-century now. And in Martin David’s new book, it’s making an appearance at an even earlier time.
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August Wilson’s ‘King Hedley II’ continues the playwright’s ‘American Century Cycle’
April 10, 2024King Hedley II is a tautly conceived, densely plotted play with six characters.
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‘Power & Light’ shows clash of genius between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla
April 4, 2024The play tracks more than half a century of inspiration and invention as we come to understand some of the intellectual processes that eventually took the world to the technological landscape we know today.
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‘Wicked Little Letters’: A British blow for women’s emancipation in the 1920s
March 29, 2024For those who enjoy a rollicking feminist mystery-political-comedy that is in fact based on a true story, this may be your ticket for a fun adult outing at the movies.
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Laos: A People’s Democratic Republic travelogue
March 27, 2024Next year will mark half a century since Laos won its independence from imperialism.
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