Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Culture

Jeanine Tesori’s new opera ‘Grounded’ is a call to moral accountability
November 27, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon
While the opera does not tackle head-on the wars Jess is fighting, it will surely provoke such questioning in the audience—about moral ambiguity at the very least.
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Culture

The disappeared of Ayotzinapa reverently remembered in new theater work
November 19, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon
Mexico has one of the highest rates of disappearances in the world, many the victims of femicide. Political, environmental and labor leaders have often been targeted for elimination as well.
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Culture

‘Antíkoni,’ a stunning new Native American interpretation of the ancient Greek play
November 15, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon
Theatergoers are in for a very special occasion—a revelation, it’s not too excessive to say—if they will expand their horizons a bit and embrace a Native American perspective on view now.
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Culture

Afro-Puerto Rican Communist Jesús Colón: A bio-musical highlights his HUAC hearing
November 7, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon
Renowned, revered writer and activist Jesús Colón (1901-74), remembered as “Father of the Nuyorican Movement,” stars as the central character in The Red Rose.
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Culture

‘Menotti Radio Hour’ sets two American operas in a broadcast studio
November 1, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon
It’s not a totally original idea: see The 1940’s Radio Hour.
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Culture

‘Odd Man Out’: Theater in the dark tells a blind musician’s story
October 30, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon
"Darkness allows us to perceive the world in a new way, and we extend that perception into how we create.…"
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Culture

August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ teaches the potent legacy of Southern slavery
October 24, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon
How does the indelible stain of slavery reverberate down into the 20th century?
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Culture

‘Robbin, from the Hood’ exposes the evil of racist Big Capital
October 18, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon
In Wyatt’s re-imagination of the classic tale of righteous redistribution, corporate greed is the new villain in the person of The Kennedy Group (corporations are persons, right?).
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