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

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Tchaikovsky’s ‘Iolanta’ in Los Angeles staged premiere features a blind soprano
March 23, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
The adventuresome Pacific Opera Project (POP) gave the Los Angeles stage premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta Sun., March 20. The single largest production ever mounted by the company, the opera stars blind soprano Cristina Jones in the...
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‘Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies’ explores racial identity, privilege, prejudice
March 16, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Is it possible to address hot-button, ever-timely issues such as racial identity, privilege, prejudice, pop culture, and even racially motivated murder with dark-comedy irreverence?
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Majority Latina cast and crew in world premiere play ‘Alma’
March 15, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
It has been a coming of age story all along—and really, what else would it be?
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’: Epic theater traces a finance family’s 160-year history
March 9, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
One doesn’t have to admire these people, except for the sheer brilliance of their heartless audacity, to recognize The Lehman Trilogy as one of the most significant plays of our time.
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Expressions of African-American music on CD—and all that jazz
March 7, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Jazz is widely recognized as perhaps the only musical art form originating in the United States, thanks largely to its African-American inventors.
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A re-radicalized Beethoven ‘Fidelio’ for the Black Lives Matter era
March 1, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon

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Docudrama ‘Detained’ exposes true stories of mass immigrant deportation
February 25, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Immigrants across America who might years ago have had some minor brush with the law are being rounded up, torn from their families.
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‘Power of Sail’: Fighting Nazis in the Ivy League (or inviting them in)
February 23, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
This is truly what theater and the arts need to be doing now to educate, enlighten, and awaken.
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