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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Roland K. Brown/EVIDENCE Front Page
With Music of Arturo O'Farrill at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 28th, 2018New Conversations (live music world premiere) choreography, Roland K. Brown with music by Arturo O’Farrill & Resist was developed during a residency of the Roland K. Brown/Evidence company at Jacob's Pillow. It was founded in 1985 and this was their first Pillow peformance in more than a decade.
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Charles Giuliano Heads and Tales Front Page
Pictures at an Exhibition
By: - Jul 27th, 2018Arthur DeBow did a super job of curating and installing my retrospective Heads and Tales at Gallery 51 in North Adams. Some 150 plus friends and strangers passed through.
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Lempicka an Art Deco Musical at Williamstown Front Page
World Premiere by Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould
By: - Jul 26th, 2018Fleeing the Russian Revolution Tamara Lempicka (born Maria Gorska, 16 May 1898-18 March 1980) settled in Paris. Initially the couple with an infant girl survived selling the last of family jewlery. Her husband, Tadeusz Lempicki, a lawyer and aristocrat at first refused to get a job. She took up painting society portraits as a means of supporting their daughter. During the 1920s she was a leading exponent of the Art Deco style. It fell out of fashion during the depression and war years. Williamstown Theatre Festival has a world premiere musical about her life and career.
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Was Strindberg a Proto Feminist Front Page
Creditors at Shakespeare & Company Provokes Questions
By: - Jul 25th, 2018As magnificently performed by Kristin Wold, her Tesla, in Strindberg's Creditors is a strong, complex, progressive woman. For the first time Shakespeare & Company in Lenox is producing the modernist Swedish playwright. In his own words, however, he stated that "... a woman is a scaled down man, a form whose development was arrested between adolescence and full manhood. ...Woman is inferior to man.”
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White by James Ijames Front Page
By Berkeley's Shotgun Players
By: - Jul 24th, 2018Based on a real life incident, the informal push for diversity or inclusion in the arts motivates James Ijames’s (pronounced I’ms) complex, provocative, and entertaining play White.
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Pericles Is Rarely Performed Front Page
At Marin Shakespeare Company
By: - Jul 24th, 2018The storyline of Pericles is the odyssey of the title character. It shares devices with other Shakespeare comedies, such as Twelfth Night’s shipwreck separation of characters then thought dead. But in the clever opening challenge, opera lovers will find what may have been the inspiration that ultimately led to Puccini’s Turandot.
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Creditors by August Strindberg Front Page
Mid-summer Dark Comedy at S&Co.
By: - Jul 23rd, 2018The Swedish realist/ naturalist playwright, August Strindberg (1849-1912) published Creditors in 1889. Some 129 years later it is the first play by the Swedish modernist to be produced by Shakespere & Company. Since it is a must see play of the Berkshire season you wonder what took them so long?
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Horse Sense Word
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Dorrance Dance at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
An All Star World Premiere
By: - Jul 21st, 2018For the past few years the annual appearance of Dorrance Dance has been a highlight of the Jacob’s Pillow season. This time the tap company featured an all star, world premiere of the playful All Good Things Come to an End . The second half of the program featured a recent piece Myelination (2017). It was yet again a glorious evening of tap dancing.
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American Players Theatre 2018 Front Page
Productions in Spring Green, Wisconsin
By: - Jul 20th, 2018Performances of American Players Theatre (APT). More coverage of the ATCA conference in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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American Players Theatre Front Page
ATCA Conference at Spring Green, Wisconsin
By: - Jul 19th, 2018American Players Theatre (APT), a highly respected outdoor repertory company, hosted the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) to several top-flight theatrical performances and well-organized extracurricular activities during ATCA’s annual conference at Spring Green, Wisconsin, in July, 2018.
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Spring Green Wisconsin Front Page
Conference for American Theatre Critics Association
By: - Jul 19th, 2018Spring Green is an arts center in nearby south central Wisconsin that’s easily accessible to Chicagoans interested in theater and the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. In a long weekend, you can see classic theater at the American Players Theatre (APT) on a hilltop in Spring Green and tour Taliesin, the home, studio and school built, rebuilt and rebuilt again by Frank Lloyd Wright, his apprentices and family.
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Queens by Martyna Majok Front Page
At La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Jul 19th, 2018With the current production “Queens”, the La Jolla Playhouse mounts a powerful drama about the plight of both legal and illegal immigrants, and their desperate drive to remain in the United States, in order to make a better life for themselves and their separated families, some of whom remain back in the countries they fled.
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A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydou Front Page
Farce at Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Jul 19th, 2018As in typical French farce fashion there are misunderstandings, sexual innuendo, doors which lead to near collisions and misidentifications. The play is set in the late 1800s during what is called “La Belle Epoque.” It involves upper middle class people; infidelity or the appearance of it plays a major role.
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Eureka Springs, Arkansas Front Page
Known as ‘The Stair Step Town’
By: - Jul 18th, 2018In the beginning, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was all about the healing waters. In 1880, the area’s numerous naturally flowing springs were credited with restoring the sight of a woman who had been blind for years.
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Front Page
Musical at Irish Rep in NY
By: - Jul 18th, 2018On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the Alan Jay Lerner/Burton Lane musical, is getting a delightful production at the Irish Rep under the skilled hand of director (and adaptor) Charlotte Moore.
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MCLA Gallery 51 Exhibition by Charles Giuliano Front Page
Heads and Tales a 40 Year Retrospective
By: - Jul 17th, 2018A forty year retrospective by Charles Giuliano "Heads and Tales" opens Thursday, July 26 at MCLA Gallery 51 in North Adams, Massachusetts. It will be a part of the monthly Downstreet celebration, The artist will give a talk at the gallery on Wednesday, August 8 from 6 to 7 PM. The exhibition, curated by gallery director Arthur Debow, surveys 40 images of jazz and rock musicians from the Rolling Stones, to Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Yoko Ono and Frank Sinatra.
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The Wedding Singer Front Page
At The Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Jul 17th, 2018“The Wedding Singer,” the stage musical is based on the Adam Sandler movie of the same name that debuted in 1988. The current ‘Wedding Singer’ stage musical now on the Palm Canyon Theatre stage has been updated with a total of 20 musical numbers; some of which are new. The PCT show also retained some the original songs written in 2006.
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A Doll’s House Part 2 Front Page
Hnath Updates Ibsen at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jul 16th, 2018Ibsen premiered The Doll's House in 1879. That was two years after Leo Tolstoy published Anna Karenina another tale of a society woman who abandoned her marriage and children. We know of Anna's tragic end but the fate of Nora is left uncertain. With A Doll's House Part 2 Lucas Hnath provides entertaining but improbable answers. The award winning Broadway hit is having a run at Barrington Stage Company with Laila Robins in the role which won a Tony for Laurie Metcalf. Christopher Innvar plays Torvald.
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Artney Jackson by James Anthony Tyler Front Page
African American Theatre in Williamstown
By: - Jul 15th, 2018For the past decade there has been a tradition of at least one Afircan American themed production each season. This time its a benign and charming comedy Artney Jackson by James Anthony Tyler. Arguably there is progress that the well crafted and superbly acted play is a step back from polemical social and political agendas.
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Intersectionality of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Front Page
Elevated Threat Level of Fractus V at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Jul 15th, 2018The week of performances by the Belgian based company Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/ Eastman featured a single work Fractus V (2015). In the spirit of intersectionality which informs the cutting edge of performance art it conflates the dance and musical traditions of its diverse members.
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Steve Nelson Gettin’ Home Front Page
An Odyssey Through the ‘60s
By: - Jul 13th, 2018Gettin’ Home: An Odyssey Through the ‘60s by Steve Nelson adds to a growing interest and understanding of the couner culture, arts and media of Boston in the 1960s. Rather well along in this memoir he became the manager of the rock club The Boston Tea Party. He promoted a mix of British bands, groups from San Francisco, blues legends and local bands. The saga begins with a summer in Peru with a group from Cornell. He arrived in Cambridge for three years at Harvard Law School and a post grad one. Staying in school had the advantage of staying out of Vietnam. Unlike many Nelson remembers a lot about the 1960s often with stunning detail.
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Macbeth the Scotched Play at S&Co. Front Page
Botched by Misdirection of Melia Bensussen
By: - Jul 12th, 2018It helps if you have read or seen other productions of Macbeth. Without that background the radical deconstruction ot the iconic play directed by Obie winner, Melia Bensussen, won't make sense.
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I Will Speak for Myself Front Page
Evoking Historical Women of Color by Valerie Joyce
By: - Jul 11th, 2018In Professor Valerie Joyce’s visits to schools, she asks students to name African-American women they know of from before 1865. Even among black female students, the responses quickly falter – Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, maybe Sally Hemings. With 250 years of history in the United States before the Civil War, this whole segment of our population is virtually silent, unknown.
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Impact of ICA Expansion to East Boston Front Page
Continued Neglect of Community of Artists
By: - Jul 11th, 2018The ICA has a major problem not just with East Boston artists, but with most local Boston-area artists, and it's due primarily to 3 factors -- mistaken policies, mistaken attitude, and mistaken curatorial direction. The author is an artist.
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