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

Uncovering new depths in regional theatre production of ‘Fun Home’
February 12, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
It was called “the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian.”
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‘See You Yesterday’: A Netflix film about police killings of African Americans
February 10, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
First-time feature filmmakers, director Stefon Bristol and his co-writer Fredrica Bailey have aimed for, and largely achieved an almost impossible goal.
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‘Until the Flood’ peels away seething anxieties over Ferguson killing
February 5, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
The myth of Orpheus is still, always with us, shape-shifting in time and form.
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‘The Traitor’: How one man brought the Italian Cosa Nostra down
January 31, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
The cinematography is highly appealing, making a film about some despicable characters eminently watchable.
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F.W. Murnau’s ‘Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans’ has thrilling new score
January 31, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
This is a film town But there’s no period at the end of that sentence because L.A. is so much more.
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Culture

A marvel of inventiveness in two one-acts from Pacific Opera Project
January 29, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
You wouldn’t have to be an opera lover to love Pacific Opera Project’s latest venture, a double bill of two 20th-century works.
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Culture

‘The Last Ship’ is a stunning masterpiece of working-class musical theatre
January 27, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
Another self-conscious aspect of the musical genre that creeps in from time to time comes in some of the solos when singers default into crooning Broadway vocal production, particularly in the amorous, yearning songs.
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‘Nowhere on the Border,’ an engrossing play on our conscience
January 24, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
A soul-wrenching, laser-beamed treatment of the emotional and economic issues around cross-border migration from Mexico into the U.S. Southwest.
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