Charles Giuliano
Bio:
Publisher & Editor. Charles was the director of exhibitions for the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University where he taught art history and the humanities. He taugh tModern Art and the Avant-garde for Metropolitan College of Boston University. After many years as a contributor, columnist and editor for a range of print publications from Art New England, Art News, the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Herald Traveler and Patriot Ledger, to mention a few, he went on line with Maverick Arts which evolved into a website.
Recent Articles:
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Limon Dance Company Front Page
Celebrating Its 70th Year at Jacob's Pillow.
By: - Aug 13th, 2018“A gesture, be it a leap, turn, run, fall, or walk, is only as beautiful, as powerful, as eloquent as its inner source. . . Purify, magnify, and make noble that source. You stand naked and revealed. Who are you? What are you? Who, what do you want to be? What is your spiritual caliber?” José Limón. This past week Jacob's Pillow celebrated the 70th anniversary of the company he founded.
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Dangerous House by Jen Silverman Front Page
Powerful World Premiere at WTF
By: - Aug 12th, 2018Anchoring the season of Nikos Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival is Dangerous House a riveting social justice drama. It took years and multiple drafts for Jen Silverman to polish a harrowing play set during the World Cup in South Africa. It focuses on the systemic rape and murder of lesbians. There was indiffernce to these crimes in the black community on the part of government and the police.
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The Fabulous Lipitones in Pittsfield Front Page
By John Markus and Mark St. Germain
By: - Aug 11th, 2018Whitney Center for the Arts presents the Berkshire Premiere of The Fabulous Lipitones by John Markus and Mark St. Germain, a fully staged Musical, directed by Monica Bliss and Musical Director Jeff Hunt with Choreographer Ruslan Sprague, August 10-19th.
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Barefoot in the Park Front Page
Neil Simon at San Diego's Old Globe
By: - Aug 11th, 2018The author of some 60 plays, screenplays, and three novels over the years, Simon, at 91-years of age, still takes pen to paper (probably a yellow-lined legal pad). San Diego’s renowned Old Globe Theatre is currently staging one of Simons’ earlier, highly successful and blisteringly funny romantic comedy plays “Barefoot in the Park”; seamlessly and smartly directed by Jessica Stone.
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Cabaret Artist Sydney Weisman Back Stage Front Page
Who Put the Chutzpah in Broadway?
By: - Aug 11th, 2018Cabaret artist Sydney Weisman provides a wonderful musical journey well worth listening to with songs written by the Royalty of Broadway: The Gershwin Brothers, George and Ira, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, Frank Loesser, Kurt Weill, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and a host of other iconic musical giants of Broadway’s music.
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Intimate Musica Marin Front Page
A Conversation With Kahn and Furr
By: - Aug 11th, 2018Musica Marin, with four years of producing chamber music for audiences of 60-80 guests in residential settings makes a big leap. September 21-23, 2018, they present the inaugural Musica Marin Festival in beautiful Tiburon and Belvedere. We had a chance to talk with Founder and Artistic Director Ruth Ellen Kahn and Culinary Director Mark Furr about the exciting event.
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The Member of the Wedding Front Page
Williamstown Revises Carson McCullers Play
By: - Aug 10th, 2018It took five years for Carson McCullers to write the novel The Member of the Wedding published in 1946. She adapted it for stage with a January 5, 1950 Broadway opening and 501 performances. It was produced by Young Vic in London in 2007. It has been revised by Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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The Way the Mountain Moved Front Page
By Idris Goodwin at Oregon Shakespeare Festiva
By: - Aug 08th, 2018he Way the Mountain Moved is situated in Utah, a crossroads of the west and the state in which the eastbound and westbound building of track would meet in 1869. Leland Stanford would drive the golden spike of completion at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory in 1869.
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Mata Hari at West Edge Opera Front Page
By Matt Marks and Paul Peers
By: - Aug 08th, 2018Opera permits some amount of spoken dialogue, often resulting in a reclassification of the piece, as opera buffa or operetta. Here, the title character, Mata Hari, is a spoken role. Unfortunately, supertitles are not provided for the spoken word, and many details of the story are unnecessarily lost to audience members who can’t hear all of the dialogue clearly.
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Hand to God at TheatreWorks Front Page
Rude, Raunchy, and Riotously Funny
By: - Aug 08th, 2018The promotional material says that “you’ve been warned – This play is rated R for rude, raunchy, and riotously funny!” Certainly it is both of the first two; how funny you find it will depend on your sense of humor and your view about religious jokes
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Paul Manafort Dressed for Success Front Page
A Million Bucks for Schmatas
By: - Aug 07th, 2018When Paul Manafort offered to work pro bono for the Trump campaign he was deep in debt. He owed a million for clothing including $25,000 suits and notorious ostrich and lizard coats for $48,000. That's nothing new to Beltway politics. During the Truman/ Eisenhower era lobbyists gifted mink coats, oriental rugs and refrigerators to government insiders. A $28,000 vicuna coat, a gift from Bernard Goldfine, was a scandal that ended the career of Ike's trusted Sherman Adams.
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The Only Opera by Claude Debussy Front Page
At West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 07th, 2018Claude Debussy’s only opera, the tragic Pelléas & Mélisande, is considered one of the most important 20th century operas and a highlight of French music. West Edge Opera has produced an absorbing realization with strong performances and simple but striking visuals in its home for this season, the Craneway Pavillion in Richmond, California.
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Guns of August Word
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The Petrified Forest By Robert Sherwood Front Page
!935 Gangster Play Revived by Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Aug 05th, 2018During the 1930s in media, movies and popular culture gangasters and bank robbers were regarded as Robin Hood folk heroes. That's a theme of this revival of Robert Sherwood's depression era drama The Petrified Forest. It is being given an entertaining production by Berkshire Theatre Group.
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Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle Front Page
World Premiere at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Aug 05th, 2018In Manahatta, playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle has written an illuminating, provocative, disquieting, and totally entertaining play that depicts the early days of the white man’s arrival on Manhattan in concert with high finance and Lanape life in the 21st century.
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Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson Front Page
Oregon Shakespeare Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2018Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will tells with comedic embellishment the true story of the publishing of Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, commonly known as the First Folio. Oregon Shakespeare Festival gives a fine rendering of the amusing play, appropriately at its outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre venue.
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Hubbard Street Celebrates 40 Years Front Page
Diverse Program at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Aug 03rd, 2018Hubbard Street Dance Chicago celebrated its 40th anniversary with yet another visit to Jacob's Pillow. At two and a half hours, with works by four choreographers, it was one of the longest, most diverse and best received programs of the Pillow season.
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The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh Front Page
Barrington Stage and Ma-Yi Theatre Company
By: - Aug 02nd, 2018The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh with stutter steps, in a single 90 minute act, morphs from a side show curiosity to harrowing social justice theatre. It is a world premiere co production of Barrington Stage and Ma-Yi Theatre Company. It moves this fall from Pittifield to a run Off Broadway.
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Cod is Dead Word
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Heads and Tales Word
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Legendary Boston Jazz Impresario Fred Taylor Front Page
At 89 Writing Memoir with Dick Vacca
By: - Jul 31st, 2018Now 89, legendary Boston jazz impresario , Fred Taylor, is busy booking one nighters for the Cabot Theatre in Beverly, Mass. Asked if it is time to retire he replied with the title of his memoir "What and Quit Show Biz." It's a work in progress with Dick Vacca. They hope to publish the book in spring, 2019. With typical wit and insight it recaps a career booking clubs like Jazz Workshop/ Paul's Mall, and Sculler's. He founded the Tanglewood Jazz Festival and produced concerts at Symphony Hall and other venues.
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Seared by Theresa Rebeck Front Page
Hilarious Foodie Spoof at Williamtown Theater Festival
By: - Jul 29th, 2018Seared by Therese Rebeck is her third play to permiere at Williamston Theater Festival. Set in a 16 seat boutidue Brooklyn restaurant Seared is a hillarious sendup of trendy foodie fanatacism.
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Sunday in the Park with George Front Page
Sondheim at San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Jul 29th, 2018James Lapine’s book of Sunday in the Park with George focuses on change, not just change in art, but in life. Stephen Sondheim is noted as perhaps the most intellectual among composers of musicals
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Oliver at Goodspeed Front Page
The Dickens of a Musical
By: - Jul 29th, 2018Director Rob Ruggiero has done the same thing with this production of Oliver! now at Goodspeed Musicals through Sept. 13. Perhaps you have forgotten or never knew the basic plot of the show. Oliver Twist is a young orphan who escapes from a workhouse where food was scarce and love non-existent, into an underworld of pickpockets and worse.
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Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki at Eclipse Gallery Front Page
Cuckoo's Call on View In North Adams
By: - Jul 28th, 2018Cuckoo's Call, is an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki that reflects on the sea of humanity, ever restlessly heaving up and down. It opens at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams on August 3 and runs through September 3.
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