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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Anna Christie at Lyric Stage Front Page
Revival of O’Neill’s 1921 Pulitzer Winner
By: - May 06th, 2018With judicious tweaking, cuts, and color blind casting director/ adapter, Scott Edmiston, mounted a stunning producton of Anna Christie at Boston's Lyric Stage. The 1921 drama by Eugene O'Neill won a Pulitzer Prize. He would go on to earn three more Pulitzers including for a posthumous production of the autobiographical family epic A Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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Rick Harlow's The Landscape of Energy Front Page
Statent by a Berkshire Artist
By: - May 05th, 2018Through the end of May The Eclipse Mill Gallery launches its 2018 season with the first Berkshire solo show of abstract paintings by resident artist, Rick Harlow. In an artist's statement Harlow provides a context for what he describes as The Landscape of Energy. On May 26 in the gallery at 243 Union Street, North Adams, the group Aluna will create improvised music inspired by the paintings.
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The Cake at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble Front Page
Chicago's Equity Theater Produces Works by Women
By: - May 05th, 2018Bekah Brunstetter’s play shines in giving us insights on the thinking behind a baker’s refusal to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. Brunstetter helps us understand the thinking on both sides; this is not a leftwing harangue.
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John Patrick Shanley's Doubt Front Page
At Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
By: - Apr 22nd, 2018Milwaukee Chamber Theatre hits a high note with this powerful, intense play. It may not be quite as shocking as it was when the play first debuted (and this reviewer saw it in New York), but it remains topical in its insistence that the element of doubt can be as demonizing as certainty, depending on where the power exists. With this review we welcome American Theatre Critics Associaton member, Anne Siegel, as our Milwaukee correspondant.
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The Skinny Word
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Tony Kushner’s Angels in America Front Page
Epic London Production Transfers to Broadway
By: - Apr 19th, 2018Angels in America is one of the major theatrical events on Broadway this Spring. The highly acclaimed National Theatre Production is here for a limited run through June. The two parts Millennium Approaches and Perestrokia make for a marathon of theater going (well over 7 hours) but you will leave the theater dazed by what you have seen and heard.
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The Wanderes at The Old Globe Front Page
Premiere of Hsssidic Play by Anna Zeigler
By: - Apr 19th, 2018The subject of ‘arranged marriage’ is still practiced in some places and cultures in the world. But in the West, and especially here, in America, one might have some difficulty finding small enclaves of religious separatists that still cling to the old ways of religious observance.
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How the Other Half Loves by Sir Alan Ayckbourn Front Page
Classic Comedy at North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Apr 19th, 2018There ought to be a law stating all British farces and comedies must be staged by British-trained directors in order to get the full impact of their special, zany, erudite, and/or silly brand of comedy. “How the Other Half Loves” by Sir ASlan Ayckbourn is blessed in having six talented actors who know their stuff; perform on NCRT’s stage and have fun in doing it.
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Age of Innocence at Hartford Stage Front Page
Douglas McGrath Adapts Edith Wharton Novel
By: - Apr 18th, 2018Douglas McGrath has taken Edith Wharton’s novel of constricted high society in New York City in the 1870s and condensed it to 100 minutes. By focusing on specific scenes with little connection between them, at times it feels episodic and lacks flow.
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Maybe Flowers Word
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Arts Journalist Glenn Loney at 89 Front Page
Beloved Member of American Theatre Critics Association
By: - Apr 17th, 2018Glenn Loney’s massive resume in 2006 listed more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles, 530 reviews, 7 books, 6 unpublished plays, 2 detailed show program notes, editing or contributions to 22 books, and 39 in-depth interviews for Cue magazine. Among the books is a two-volume "20th Century Theatre," a day-by-day chronology of American, British, and Canadian Theatre activity from 1900 to 1980. He is rembered by William Hirschman, president of American Theatre Critics Association.
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Martyna Majok wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Front Page
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Apr 17th, 2018Congratulations to playwright, Martyna Majok, and Mandy Greenfield, artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival, Her harrowing play, Cost of Living, had its world premiere in Williamstown in July, 2016. The production moved to New York's Manhattan Theatre Club in 2017. The play has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. We have reposted the review in Berkshire Fine Arts.
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Flight of the Phoenix Front Page
Former Editor Arnie Reisman Rebuts Editor Harper Barnes
By: - Apr 15th, 2018The response of former Boston After Dark editor, Arnie Reisman, to former Cambridge Phoenix editor, Harper Barnes, was too long to post as a comment. Accordingly, we have opted to run it under Reisman's byline. He was my first editor at the Brandeis Univertsity Justice and later hired me for Boston After Dark. There is much yet to be said about alternative media in the 1970s but with this exchange matters get curiouser and curiouser.
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Legendary Alternative Editor Harper Barnes Front Page
New Journalism in Boston/ Cambridge in the Early 1970s
By: - Apr 14th, 2018The recently published book Astral Weeks, by Ryan Walsh, has brought national attention to the counter culture of Boston/ Cambridge in 1968. This extensive interview with Harper Barnes, former editor of the Cambridge Phoenix and columnist for The Real Paper, covers developments in the early 1970s. It was a fertile era that launched careers of numerous arts critics and political commentators. After a stint in Boston, eventually, he returned to the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch and the city where he continues to reside.
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Birdland by Simon Stephens Front Page
Look Inside Rock Music Business
By: - Apr 11th, 2018Simon Stephens has said that Birdland is influenced by Radiohead’s OK Computer tour in 1997 and the rockumentary, Meeting People Is Easy. Stephens said in an interview, “Thom Yorke’s very present in Birdland.” Like Yorke’s, Paul’s band went from venues of 2,000 to 20,000 and 75,000 over a short time span. “You watch him lose all sense of self.”
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Bridges of Madison County Front Page
Produced by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Apr 11th, 2018“You could have driven into someone else’s driveway.” These words summarize not only the randomness of events that leads to a torrid but compassionate love affair in Bridges of Madison County, but to life itself. Under Robert Kelley’s direction, it is extremely well crafted schmaltz with excellent production values that should appeal to a broad audience.
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Timon of Athens at Cutting Ball Theatre Front Page
A Rarely Performed Shakespeare Play
By: - Apr 08th, 2018Timon of Athens ranks as one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays. While the dialogue is definitely Shakespearean, Timon lacks the popular quotes and hooks of the greater plays – no “pound of flesh” or “out damned spot” or “lean and hungry look” or “slings and arrows.”
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Motherhood Out Loud Front Page
Produced by Dezart Performs,
By: - Apr 07th, 2018Under the smart and crisp direction of Artistic Director/Actor Michael Shaw, “Motherhood Out Loud” brings insights and revelations to the males in the audience and smiles and a multitude of laugh-out-loud- moments from the ladies in the audiences; be they mothers or not.
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A.R. Gurney's The Cocktail Hour Front Page
Directed by David Youse at the Annenberg Theatre
By: - Apr 07th, 2018A.R. Gurney's “The Cocktail Hour”, is a semi-autobiographical comedy that offers a peek into the world of one upper-crust waspish family as they engage in their nightly ritual – the cocktail get together before dinner.
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Exploring Idyllwild California Front Page
River Deep Mountain High
By: - Apr 07th, 2018It’s not unusual to spot a herd of colorful deer right in the center of Idyllwild, the famously art-hearted small town (pop. 3,874 year-round) in the mountains (elevation 5,413) above Palm Springs. Not your ordinary deer, mind you, but 22 fabulously painted aluminum bucks, does and fawns, each decorated to reflect a part of Idyllwild’s history.
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Yo Yo Word
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Chicago Theatre Critic Nancy Bishop Front Page
Sharing a Life in the Arts
By: - Apr 06th, 2018We met Chicago theatre critic Nancy Bishop during a conference of American Theatre Critics. In the past few years she has covered theatre for us. This is an interview posted to the website she edits Third Coast Review.
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Berkshire Museum Decision Handed Down Front Page
Green Light to Sell Treasures and Gut the Building
By: - Apr 05th, 2018Pittsfield used to have a small, charming, eclectic regional museum. As of today that's no longer true.
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Renowned Boston Arts Critic David Bonetti Front Page
Found Listening to Classical Music
By: - Apr 05th, 2018A Berkshire Fine Arts contributor, the renowned arts critic, David Bonetti, was found dead in his Brookline, Mass. apartment while listening to classical music. His writing career started with Art New England and the Boston Phoenix. He joined the San Francisco Chronicle and then St. Louis Post Dispatch. After that he retired writing the occasional feature on the fine arts. In his final years he wrote on opera for this site. He was widely regarded as one of the best critics of his generation.
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Traditional Kegel's Inn Food
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