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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Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh Front Page
At Irish Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 06th, 2018Enda Walsh has often suggested that what interests him “is about me actually getting through the day.” And indeed, the three works of Walsh’s that I did see, Once, Lazarus (2015) which he co-wrote with David Bowie, and the 22-year-old Disco Pigs, which won awards at the Dublin Fringe Festival (1996) and the Edinburgh Festival (1997), follows these same ideas.
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Bamboozled by Patricia Milton Front Page
World Premiere at at Berkeley City Club
By: - Mar 05th, 2018As a producer of new theatrical works, Central Works’ undertakings are always a crapshoot, but they usually beat the odds. In resident playwright Patricia Milton’s Bamboozled, they have tossed a winning number.
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Karen Zacharias' Spoof of Telenovela. Front Page
Destiny of Desire at Oregon Shakespeare
By: - Mar 05th, 2018On the surface, Destiny of Desire can certainly be enjoyed as a frivolous cream puff and that alone. But the playwright is going for something more. Played in a campy style, the laughs cascade like a thundering waterfall, and the audience howls of recognition and appreciation make you think you’re in Guadalajara rather than Ashland, Oregon.
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This Random World by Steven Dietz Front Page
At North Coast Repertory’
By: - Mar 03rd, 2018“This Random World”, written by prolific playwright Steven Dietz, draws from the idiosyncrasies of ‘American Millennials’ and ‘Generation X’ -ers on how they process information, situations, and unexpected opportunities in our digital age.
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Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill Front Page
Produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festiva
By: - Mar 02nd, 2018In the Jane Austen catalogue, Sense and Sensibility has always played poor sister to Pride and Prejudice. Perhaps it’s a marketing issue with the latter having the more powerful packaging (i.e.: its title). At the core of this story is a searing indictment of 19th century British laws, mores, and practices that contemporary feminists should cleave to in remembrance of the bad old days.
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Henry V by William Shakespeare Front Page
Produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Mar 02nd, 2018Oregon Shakespeare Festival has cleverly organized the productions of the three plays which involve King Henry V. Two were offered last summer – Henry IV – Part 1 and Henry IV – Part 2. In those plays, one of the main characters is Prince Harry, also known as Hal, who would become King Henry V. Despite being heir to the throne, Hal was a dissolute wastrel who consorted with Falstaff and his derelict followers.
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In The Body Of The World by Eve Ensler Front Page
Diane Paulus Directs New Post Vagina Monologue
By: - Feb 28th, 2018Eve Ensler is best known for The Vagina Monologues. In The Body of The World, a theatricalization of her 2013 book by the same name at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center currently running through March 25, Ensler returns to the stage with a vengeance.
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Retro Word
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Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel Front Page
At Conn's Playhouse on Park
By: - Feb 25th, 2018In Intimate Apparel we see four women, three of whom have learned to abandon their fantasies and make choices based on the reality of the world. Each has made a “bargain” and each longs for what she has sacrificed.
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Grounded Word
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Breach by Antoinette Nwandu Front Page
At Victory Gardens Theater in LIncoln, Illiinois
By: - Feb 22nd, 2018Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate is a world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater. The play’s long title might mislead you into thinking you’re going to see a different sort of play. Lisa Portes directs a solid cast of five in this funny, moving, but somewhat predictable play by Antoinette Nwandu.
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Uncle Vanya Front Page
San Diego’s The Old Globe Theatre
By: - Feb 21st, 2018Check it out. , San Diego’s The Old Globe Theatre is presenting a new translation and a new way of staging Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece dramedy “Uncle Vanya”.
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The Flying Dutchman Front Page
Produced by Opera San José
By: - Feb 21st, 2018Suffering on a tumultuous ocean voyage, Wagner conceived of an opera based on a man eternally condemned to the sea. Eternal punishment as a literary theme is broadly established, but the libretto for The Flying Dutchman drew largely on Memoirs of Mr. von Schnabelwopski, by Heinrich Heine, who in turn had adapted folk tales of the Wandering Jew.
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Philip Dawkins’ The Burn Front Page
Steppenwolf for Young Adults
By: - Feb 21st, 2018The Burn by terrific Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins. I think you'll be hearing that name again. It is a tense and smoothly choreographed play, directed by Devon de Mayo. All five characters are on stage at all times in the 90-minute production.
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Lucia Berlin: Stories Front Page
Produced by Word for Word in San Francisco
By: - Feb 20th, 2018As stories not written with each other or the stage in mind, Lucia Berlin: Stories lacks the cohesiveness and unswerving trajectory that you would expect in a good play. But this production delivers the sharp-eyed insights of an empathetic and accomplished story teller in a well-crafted, entertaining manner.
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Recalling Carol Channing at Lulu White’s Front Page
Boston’s Golden Era of Jazz and Cabaret
By: - Feb 19th, 2018Printing four decades of images for, Heads and Tales, an exhibit at Gallery 51 in North Adams this summer has kicked up a treasure trove of memories. A series of photos of Carol Channing with Craig Russel who impersonated her evoked the ambiance of a fabulous night at Boston's jazz club Lulu White's.
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North Adams Winter Arts Festival Front Page
Eclipse Mill Gallery: February 28 to March 28
By: - Feb 18th, 2018The North Adams Winter Arts Festival was launched in December with a holiday celebration at the Eclipse Mill Gallery. It resumes with four events starting with Kathline Carr Wednesday, February 28. It continues with Mark Miller, Wednesday, March 7, then Charles Giuliano and Astrid Hiemer, Wednesday, March 14 concluding with Sarah Sutro on Wednesday, March 28. Speaking well for the depth of the creative community all of the authors live and work in North Adams.
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Opera Parallèle's Trouble in Tahiti Front Page
Leonard Bernstein’s Modest One-act Opera
By: - Feb 17th, 2018The always innovative Opera Parallèle has taken Leonard Bernstein’s modest one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti from 1952 and framed it with complementary wrapper to produce an exciting entertainment. This evening of opera is not traditional in many ways, but it is delightfully sophisticated and well executed
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Fear and Misery in the Third Reich Front Page
Timely Brecht at Chicago's Haven Theatre
By: - Feb 15th, 2018Fear and Misery in the Third Reich can be described as Bertolt Brecht’s ghost arriving to warn us about the United States of Donald Trump turning into a fascist dictatorship. The play, now being staged by Haven Theatre, is a series of 18 loosely related scenes illustrating the progression of the German dictatorship from Breslau 1933 to Hamburg 1938.
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John Lithgow: Stories By Heart Front Page
Smash Solo on Broadway
By: - Feb 15th, 2018Now 72, John Lithgow is a charming and much loved, award winning actor. His solo show Stories by Heart is both hilarious and poignant. It conveys stories told by his father during Lithgow's childhood. The show continues at American Airlines Theatre on Broadway through March 25.
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David Ricci’s Edge of Chaos Front Page
Studio Visit with a Berkshire Photographer
By: - Feb 14th, 2018For the past year the Berkshire based photographer, David Ricci, has been working on a large format, expensive and ambitious book. It has a working title of Edge of Chaos and surveys four decades of his oeuvre. During a studio visit we viewed the work and how it is evolving into a publication.
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Berkshire Museum: Monday Morning Quarterback Front Page
Sifting Through the Rubble
By: - Feb 12th, 2018The news of a "compromise" that really wasn't on Friday sent shock waves through the local, national and global art world. Other than the sale of Rockwell's "Shuffleton's Barber Shop" to an undisclosed museum, the Berkshire Museum got a green light to sell the 39 other works at Sotheby's. While morally and ethically flawed director, Van Shields, and board chair, Elizabeth McGraw, will proceed with catastrophic plans to gut the collection to raise $50 million. They will trash and rebuilid the museum creating its populist/ vulgarian New Vision.
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Berkshire Museum Will Gut Its Collection Front Page
Matter to be Settled with Supreme Judicial Court
By: - Feb 10th, 2018A compromise is a deal that neither side is happy with. Other than a few hard fought concessions the Berkshire Museum will now gut the museum and its collection in pursuit of its vulgarian, populist New Vision. It's tarnished leadership, including director, Van Shields and board president, Elizabeth McGraw, will have a tough job earning back the trust and support of a community which they so adroitly alienated.
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Hell Freezes Over Word
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Reel to Reel by John Kolvenbach Front Page
World Premiere at Magic Theatre
By: - Feb 09th, 2018Playwright John Kolvenbach is a New Yorker with a strong spiritual link to Magic Theatre as a major interpreter of his plays. “Reel to Reel,” directed by Kolvenbach, is their fourth production of his work and the second world premiere. Its novel structure and content reveal a compact, intimate conversation piece of sharp ripostes that excites and provokes. The acting and creative designs of this production are stellar.
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