Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Set in apartheid years, ‘Life & Times of Michael K’ intrigues, stuns, moves
December 3, 2024Michael K is born to a mother whose entire life has been one of service to wealthier white families. He had the misfortune to be born with a harelip, serious enough that it was hard for...
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Jeanine Tesori’s new opera ‘Grounded’ is a call to moral accountability
November 27, 2024While 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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The disappeared of Ayotzinapa reverently remembered in new theater work
November 19, 2024Mexico 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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‘Antíkoni,’ a stunning new Native American interpretation of the ancient Greek play
November 15, 2024Theatergoers 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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Afro-Puerto Rican Communist Jesús Colón: A bio-musical highlights his HUAC hearing
November 7, 2024Renowned, 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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‘Menotti Radio Hour’ sets two American operas in a broadcast studio
November 1, 2024It’s not a totally original idea: see The 1940’s Radio Hour.
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‘Odd Man Out’: Theater in the dark tells a blind musician’s story
October 30, 2024"Darkness allows us to perceive the world in a new way, and we extend that perception into how we create.…"
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August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ teaches the potent legacy of Southern slavery
October 24, 2024How does the indelible stain of slavery reverberate down into the 20th century?
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