Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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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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Opera by British suffragist composer Dame Ethel Smyth in West Coast premiere
March 12, 2024Fête Galante, based on Maurice Baring’s 1909 short story of the same name, is a dream-like tale of aristocrats and a commedia dell’arte troupe whose jealousy, desire, and multi-layered masquerades end in the death of one...
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A double bill at LA Opera explores race, disability, illusion, love, and hope
March 8, 2024Two hour-long one-act operas from the last century challenge viewers to adjust their thinking caps.
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‘THREE’: Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’ reimagined in four contemporary American scenes
March 6, 2024THREE is an imaginative tour de force whose particular vision is to take a torrid character study and invite Americans to consider its significance in an intelligent and freshly illuminating staging.
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