Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Arts
“La Razón Blindada”: Political theatre en español speaks to everyone
October 11, 2017This production has traveled around the U.S. as well as to several cities in Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia and Ecuador.
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Arts
World premiere play “Runaway Home”: A home run about Katrina
October 6, 2017Once again, The Fountain Theatre hits it out of the ballpark with Jeremy J. Kamps’ powerful and poetic treatment of a current issue.
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Opinion
Reflections on Revolution—the Russian and the one to come
October 4, 2017We need to clear out all the cobwebs of received opinion and reassess the Russian Revolution if we are ever to create a socialism worthy of the name.
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Arts
Comic master Neil Simon turns to psychological drama in “Lost in Yonkers”
October 3, 2017Simon: “My view is, ‘how sad and funny life is.’ I can't think of a humorous situation that does not involve some pain. I used to ask, ‘What is a funny situation?’ Now I ask, ‘What...
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Culture
“Keep the Aspidistra Flying”: A visit with George Orwell’s 1936 proletarian novel
October 2, 2017We cannot allow the name of George Orwell to be known only in connection with the fictional works Animal Farm and 1984, or with Homage to Catalonia.
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Culture
Operatic soprano Brenda Lewis remembered by a friend
September 28, 2017
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Culture
“Head of Passes”: A play inspired by Job but without the redemption
September 27, 2017Academy Award winner and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Head of Passes, i In two acts set in “the distant present, recounts a Black family birthday gathering at the well appointed home of Shelah, the matriarch, at...
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World
CISPES keeps solidarity with Salvadoran people’s movement alive in U.S.
August 17, 2017El Salvador is the rare example of an armed left insurgent force that successfully pursued national self-defense against imperialism and won.
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