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

‘Birdland Blue’ evokes Miles Davis’s late 1950s jazz world
April 10, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
The play spools out in one 90-minute act, engaging eye, ear and heart all the way.
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Culture

Royal Scottish National Orchestra offers Danny Elfman’s violin concerto
April 8, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
The orchestra and Ms. Cameron, as well as Mr. Elfman, received a thunderous ovation.
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Culture

Plays ‘Faith Healer’ and ‘Rotterdam’ demand rigorous self-examination
April 3, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
Now haunting and mystical, now bawdy and besotted, now full of bravado and then abasement, Faith Healer questions both faith and healing.
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Culture

‘The Mother of Henry’: An anti-war play in 1960s East L.A.
April 3, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
While not groundbreaking theatre, it does relate an important and effective story that a lot of people can relate to.
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Culture

Interviewing the principals of San Francisco’s Hollywood Blacklist festival
April 2, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
By viewing these films and reading these articles in People’s World, audiences are ending the blacklisting of, among others, Hugo Butler, Edward Huebsch and George Pepper.
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Culture

Daniel Amat and his jazz conjunto wow in Cuban classical music
March 29, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
There were no tricks of the trade that the exuberant madman Amat did not know or exploit.
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Culture

‘Sobibor’ dramatizes a successful heroic revolt in a Nazi death camp
March 28, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
In 2018, resistance fighters around the world commemorated the 75th anniversary of the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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Culture

Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda,’ a feminist ode to teachers, dazzles as a musical
March 26, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
The protagonist is a precocious 5-year-old girl with mystical psychic powers, a love of reading and a gift for wild, inventive storytelling, who overcomes the cruel fate of being born into a family of con-job masters...
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