Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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The wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen Workers Museum
October 17, 2017Ideologically, the museum celebrates the great mainstream of Danish social democracy.
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Tennis comes a long way in new film “Battle of the Sexes”
October 12, 2017Picture the year 1973: The sexual revolution was in full swing, and on the tennis court, Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs battled it out in front of 90 million people.
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“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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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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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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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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“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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Operatic soprano Brenda Lewis remembered by a friend
September 28, 2017