Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s centennial: Music and politics in comprehensive exhibition
May 7, 2018After the Skirball presentation, the exhibition will continue to travel throughout the United States for the following two years.
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This week in history: The city of New Orleans founded in 1718
May 7, 2018This year in New Orleans, it’s Laissez les bons temps rouler—Let the good times roll—as a unique historic American city marks its 300th birthday.
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‘Jimmy’s Carwash Adventure’: A children’s bilingual introduction to worker justice
May 3, 2018This is a timely, welcome contribution to the growing literature for children about labor in America.
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American socialist Eugene Victor Debs given his due in new documentary
May 2, 2018There are a couple of well researched biographies out there, to which readers might turn, but a fine place to start is right here in this packed and impactful documentary.
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‘ICE’: A family-friendly food truck play about immigration
April 30, 2018“Here we have two immigrants trying to figure out how to become ‘American’ and what that means,” says Debbie Devine, director of the world premiere production of Leon Martell’s play ICE, now on stage at the...
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Scholars mark milestones along past utopian roads to the future
April 27, 2018One had to smile with a certain sense of bemused indulgence at some tongue-twisting, mind-bending lecture titles that university folk like to devise.
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‘Ameryka’: a thrilling play about 250 years of American and Polish history
April 26, 2018Ameryka is a moving, educational piece of theatre that is highly watchable both for its freshly nonlinear content and its ingenious stagecraft.
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Particular or universal? ‘Bad Jews’ dramatizes an old cultural and religious dilemma
April 25, 2018In the brutally, savagely dark comedy Bad Jews, now playing at the Odyssey Theatre, playwright Joshua Harmon puts a contemporary spin on a very old question that haunts any community that seeks to preserve its culture...
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