Eric A. Gordon
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‘The Last Sorcerer,’ 1867 opera by Pauline Garcia Viardot, receives world premiere
BEVERLY HILLS, Ca. — For one night only, March 3, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, an audience was able to experience what was billed as a “World Premiere 155 years in the making. → Read More
‘The Secret Garden,’ musical created by two stellar women, revived in L.A.
LOS ANGELES — A new production of The Secret Garden, which had over 700 performances on Broadway upon its 1991 opening, is playing at the Ahmanson Theatre in downtown L.A. → Read More
‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ explores the world of true-ish journalism
LOS ANGELES — I read a manual on memoir writing where the author made the point that for the sake of a coherent story it really doesn’t matter to anyone, least of all to the reader, whether the sofa on which, 40 years ago, you experienced your first kiss at your neighbors’ house was gray or gr... → Read More
Welcome to Buenaventura and its Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples
BUENAVENTURA, Colombia — This South American nation’s port cities on the Caribbean Coast are fairly well known—Santa Marta, Barranquilla and Cartagena, the latter two much visited tourist destinations. On the Pacific Coast are Tumaco and the larger port of Buenaventura. → Read More
Colombia: Fear of war dominates an Afro-Colombian conclave in their ‘territorio’
This is the second in a three-part series by People’s World reporter Eric Gordon, who recently returned from Colombia after touring with a Witness for Peace delegation. Part 1 can be read here. → Read More
Call for ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia dominates Witness for Peace delegation
During ten eventful days in January, a U.S. delegation made up of faith leaders, activists and educators made their way through Southwestern Colombia to deepen their analysis and build solidarity with grassroots movements calling for peace and social and environmental justice led by Indigenous, Afro... → Read More
‘Home Front’ probes race, gender and sexuality in post–World War II era
BURBANK, Calif. — It’s VJ Night, August 14, 1945, the end of World War II as victory over Japan is declared. Throngs massed to celebrate. In New York City’s Times Square, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured the image of a U.S. → Read More
‘Let It Be Morning,’ a stunningly powerful almost all-Palestinian Israeli film
You have to hand it to people like Eran Kolirin. He’s the film director who in 2007 gave us The Band’s Visit, about an Egyptian military band that by some fluke managed to find itself in a sad, godforsaken Jewish desert town in Israel, whose residents unexpectedly were able to find some tentativ... → Read More
‘Hercules on the Thermodon’: Antonio Vivaldi’s baroque battle of the sexes
LOS ANGELES — How auspicious was this? COVID interrupted Pacific Opera Project (POP)’s plans to mount Ercole su’l Termodonte (“Hercules on the Thermodon”) three years ago, so it was postponed until now, the 300th anniversary of the original premiere in Rome on January 23, 1723. POP’s U. → Read More
Fernando Botero at 90: Works featured at the Museum of Latin American Art
LONG BEACH, Calif. — If you hear someone has a “Rubenesque” figure, you immediately know what that means: a full-figured, though shapely and alluring woman as commonly rendered by the classical Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens. → Read More
‘Turn Every Page’: A loving documentary about ideas, writing and comradeship
I knew the recently released documentary Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb would be right up my alley. These two men, for those who may need a reminder, are, respectively, the author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (now in its 41st printing... → Read More
Book review and response: ‘People Love Dead Jews’
Dara Horn gave People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present an intentionally provocative title, and it worked. Her latest book won the National Jewish Book Award, the New York Times Notable Book of 2021, Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year,... → Read More
Immerse yourself in the Chinese Cultural Revolution at the Wende Museum
CULVER CITY, Calif. — The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–76) was a period of tremendous social and economic upheaval within China itself that also had deep global reverberations. → Read More
¡Viva Maestro!: Conductor Gustavo Dudamel and his roots in Venezuela’s ‘El Sistema’
¡Viva Maestro!, a 99-minute 2022 release now available on various streaming platforms, dubs itself a portrait of the Los Angeles Philharmonic music and artistic director Gustavo Dudamel, but it is far more than that. → Read More
Despite the ban, queers made important contributions to U.S. Communist movement
Ordinarily a person cited, interviewed and profiled in a book wouldn’t be the appropriate person to review it. But we are not dealing here with an ordinary book, an ordinary author, nor an ordinary reviewer! And what is “appropriate” anyway? Much of this book talks about who and what were cons... → Read More
What happened with the midterm propositions and measures in California?
LOS ANGELES—California voters generally held to their left-liberal-progressive bent on November 8 when they marked their ballots for various statewide propositions and measures. Proposition 1, affirming the state constitutional right to reproductive freedom, came in with a resounding Yes. → Read More
‘If I Forget’: The Holocaust, Zionism and the uses of historical memory
LOS ANGELES — Let me just say this: If you attend a play at the Fountain Theatre you will be handsomely rewarded. Among all the theaters in this town, large or small, the Fountain is probably the most consistently socially conscious. → Read More
Could California have saved the House for the Democrats?
LOS ANGELES—A shroud of inevitability hung over the Congressional races this year, with Republicans fully expected to retake the House. The five seats Republicans needed to flip were easily assured by judges’ decisions about restricting in some cases, especially New York State: Yes, the Republic... → Read More
‘Man’s Favor Devil’s Plan’ world premiere treats racism in 1930s South
LOS ANGELES—Make a deal with the devil, and you’ll always come out on the losing end. That’s the thesis of a new play by Kwik Jones, directed by C. → Read More
‘Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground’: General, president, man and play
LOS ANGELES — Watching the world premiere production of Richard Hellesen’s new one-man play Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground, a theatergoer with any familiarity with its subject necessarily comes away asking why this or that topic was left out of the 34th president’s story. → Read More