Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘God Will Do the Rest’ introduces an idiosyncratic Filipino American immigrant family
September 11, 2024From his clever and wise writing in last year’s The Bottoming Process, I could tell Nicholas Pilapil would be one playwright to watch.
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‘Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price’ available on new album
September 10, 2024Last year, a hardworking music publicist alerted me to a rare performance of Damien Geter’s spirituals-based Justice Symphony up in Fresno, paired with Beethoven’s 9th, and I took the bait.
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‘Filthy Laundry’: Intersectional union organizing in California’s 1970s Central Valley
September 4, 2024Not many longtime community activists for labor and civil rights, and for basic democratic rights, and who analyze political trends as a volunteer journalist for People’s World, take the time to write for the stage. But...
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Socialist Sudoku – Labor Day 2024 edition
August 30, 2024A new puzzle for our readers.
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What is ‘The HLLLL Vote’ and why is it on stage now?
August 29, 2024"Why would they expect every single Latino or Hispanic person from Tijuana to Buenos Aires to think and vote the exact same way? Why do they see us as one single entity? No wonder so many...
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‘Sugarcane’: Will survivors of Indian residential schools ever find justice for institutionalized abuse?
August 19, 2024A stunning new documentary film co-directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie and produced by National Geographic will open your eyes—and perhaps more importantly, your heart—to the widespread abuse of Indigenous children over the course...
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‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity
August 14, 2024The new 105-minute film Sing Sing is about life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, perhaps the most infamous maximum security prison in America, perhaps the world.
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‘Tartuffe: Born Again’: Molière shows crooks and fraudsters will always be with us
August 12, 2024Can we even imagine a world without crooks, fraudsters, hucksters, impostors, scam artists, snake oil purveyors, narcissists, cheats, grifters and hypocrites? Probably not.
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