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

‘Yiddish Glory’ CD records Jewish pain and resistance in World War II
August 20, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
Even as WWII was still raging, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars undertook an ambitious project of preserving Jewish culture of the 1940s while and soon after it was created. Linguists, folklorists, and historians joined to...
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Arts

The 1802 Haitian Revolution on stage: Liberty, equality and fraternity for all
August 14, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
I can’t imagine that theatergoers will ever get a chance to see this work again—unless a film director might take it on as a project (hint, hint). Take my advice and see it while you can!
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Arts

Dylan Thomas’s ‘Under Milk Wood’ receives an inspired stage production
August 1, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
Open Fist Theatre Company just unveiled its interpretation of Under Milk Wood, originally written as a 1954 radio play but revived from time to time as a stage work and in film.
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Environment

The world burns as global warming crisis explodes
July 31, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
People coughing, suffocating, dying. Everywhere. The fires of hell are right here on Earth.
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Arts

Hear Beethoven roar in Hershey Felder’s new biographical treatment
July 30, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
There can be little disagreement that Hershey Felder is the greatest one-man “theatrical impressionist” interpreting the lives of the great composers.
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Arts

Marc Blitzstein’s ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ now recorded with full orchestra
July 27, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
The Cradle Will Rock finally achieved what the composer-librettist had always imagined: A fully orchestrated staged production.
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Culture

Turgenev’s ‘Three Days in the Country’ a lusty romp of social commentary
July 26, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
A version of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, rewritten by playwright Patrick Marber, is now enjoying its West Coast premiere production by the Antaeus Theatre Company.
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Arts

Artist Ben Shahn was moved by the Tom Mooney case
July 25, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
Ben Shahn was moved in the early 1930s to paint a series of works based on the infamous Tom Mooney case. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) currently has a display of these works...
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