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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ATCA at Sardi’s Front Page
Lunch with Broadway Stars
By: - Nov 10th, 2017A highlight of the American Theatre Critics Association’s New York conference is a now traditional lunch at Sardi’s with stars of current Broadway shows. Cast members of seven shows were represented.
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert, (the musical). Front Page
Smashing at Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Nov 10th, 2017Musicals are the specialty of the Palm Canyon Theatre (PCT) where they are sensationally produced and performed. PCT is now in its twenty-first year of providing quality entertainment to the Coachella Valley, presenting thirteen productions a year that include comedies, dramas, and special events as well as their signature musicals.
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Our Chicago Correspondent Visited New York Front Page
Focusing on Off Broadway
By: - Nov 09th, 2017Our correspondant, Nancy Bishop, in NY for the ATCA conference regrets that " I’m a huge Bruce Springsteen fan—I’ve seen him in concert dozens of times, but I thought the tickets to his Springsteen on Broadway show were too expensive. I was able to buy tickets for these off-Broadway plays and pay for dinner as well for the price of one Springsteen ticket." She offers an overview of affordable shows that will be up through the Holidays.
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Band Visits ATCA Front Page
From Sardi’s to Broadway
By: - Nov 08th, 2017During last year's NY conference of American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) there was a panel on the development of the musical, then in previews, of what went on to be the Tony winning musical Dear Evan Hansen. Predicting that lightning will stike twice the team for The Band's Visit discussed the transitions from film, to Off Broadway, and now a production at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The smart money is on running the table during the awards season.
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In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play Front Page
By Chicago's Sarah Ruhl
By: - Nov 08th, 2017It’s a woman’s play, about an era when women’s physical and emotional needs and desires were not only misunderstood, but completely ignored. Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play is a charming and titillating look at life in the bad old 19th century. In the playwright's home town it is currently on stage at Chicago's Timeline Theatre.
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ATCA Sondheim Panel Front Page
Five Actors Discuss Their Iconic Roles
By: - Nov 07th, 2017The New York conference of American Theatre Critics Association ended on Sunday morning with a Stephen Sondheim panel at the nightclub Don't Tell Mama. Moderated by the critic Rick Pender, the actors Len Cariou, Harvey Evans, Pamela Myers, Kurt Peterson and Teri Ralston recalled originating now iconic roles. On every level ATCA saved the best for last,
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Venus in Fur Sizzles Front Page
CV REP Theatre in Rancho Mirage, CA
By: - Nov 07th, 2017The on-stage chemistry between Angela Sauer and Patrick Zeller is literally palpable. Their performances fully engage the audience who become fascinated by the push and pull of playwrightDavid Ives’ characters. References to the origin of the title “Venus in Fur” also enliven the audiences’ fascination with the story.
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1966 Play by Prolific but Unknown Alice Childress Front Page
Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
By: - Nov 07th, 2017Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White is a powerful drama of black-white relations in 1918 South Carolina, soulfully directed by Cecile Keenan at the Artistic Home. The 1966 play, written by Alice Childress, a prolific if little-known African-American playwright, has passion and relevance for a modern audience.
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Berkshire Theatre Awards 2017 Front Page
Founded in Memory of the Critic Larry Murray
By: - Nov 06th, 2017In his final months theatre critic, Larry Murray, founded Berkshire Theatre Critics Association. In its first annual presenttation of awards "The Berkies" he rallied to enjoy the occasion and to present the first award in his name, for service to the community. We were packed into Mr. Finn's Cabaret last year but last night the event occured before a capacity, attentive audience in the Mark St. Germain Stage of the Pittsfield company. Many more regional companies were nominated and participated in the awards evening. Next year three more companies will be eligible.
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Naked City Word
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Arnold Trachtman at Galatea Fine Arts Front Page
More from a Concerned Artist
By: - Oct 29th, 2017Since the late 1960s I have curated and written about the work of the Cambridge based, activist and artist, Arhold Trachtman. A few of us- scholars, curators and critics- share a convicition that he is on the short list of most significant Boston artists of his generation. Given the highly charged and passionate focus of the work it has been in general too hot to handle for mainstream museums and curators. He has a staunch champion in Marjorie Kaye, the emeritus founder of Galatea Gallery, who co cuated the current exhiition with the artist's daughter Maxima Baudissin.
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Nature Boy Word
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Rude Intruder Word
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Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield Update Front Page
Shows Through April
By: - Oct 26th, 2017Upcoming events at the Colonial include, The Airplane Family & Friends with Live Dead ‘69 (10/27), $10 Music Garage: Subtleties (11/9), Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) Touring Company (11/11), $5 Comedy Garage: Rojo Perez (at the Garage in the Colonial Theatre lobby 11/16), Ain't Wastin' Time: A Berkshire Tribute to Gregg Allman with Rev Tor's Steal Your Peach Band & Friends (11/30) and A Christmas Carol (12/9 through 12/22).
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The Agitators by Mat Smart a World Premiere Front Page
The Story of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass in Rochester
By: - Oct 26th, 2017The civil rights pioneers Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass had roots in Rochester which is mounting a world premiere about them by Mat Smart. This is the best dramatic treatment thus far to deal with their achievements and close relationship.
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Cape Cod Museum of Art Front Page
Promoting Regional Visual Arts Since 1980
By: - Oct 24th, 2017During our visit to the Cape Cod Museum of Art we viewed several special exhibitions: Salvatore Del Deo: A Storied History, extended through October 28, Discovering Cape Cod’s Museum Treasures, through November 26, and Judith Shahn Selections: A Tribute to Thomas Linxweiler through November 12. We met with Dr. Edith Tonelli who has been director for the past four years. She provided an overview of the museum and plans moving forward. We also learned why the museum and adjacent Cape Playhouse prove to have been uniquely moving experiences.
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Salvatore Del Deo: A Storied History Front Page
Co Founder of Provincetown’s Ciro’s and Sal’s
By: - Oct 23rd, 2017Now 92, the first generation Italian born artist, Salvatore Del Deo, settled in Provincetown in the post war 1940s. To pay for paint he did all the usual odd jobs. On summer he shippied out on a scallop boat. That experience richly informs a poignant triptych “Homage to the Patricia Marie” which was a part of his retrospective Salvatore Del Deo: A Storied History at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. Famously he teamed up with another starving artist, Ciro Cozzi, to co found the legendary restaurant Ciro's and Sals. He later started his own Sal's Place.
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A Tale of Two Cities in Pasadena Front Page
Play Adapted by Mike Poulton.
By: - Oct 22nd, 2017“A Tale of Two Cities”, published in 1859, was one of the finest novels of its day and now, 200 years later it appears on the stage of Pasadena’s classic theatre company, A Noise Within, as a bold, new, dramatic production from the pen of journeyman writer and play adaptor Mike Poulton.
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Shaw's Mrs. Warren’s Profession Front Page
At Pasadena's A Noise Within
By: - Oct 22nd, 2017Pasadena’s A Noise Within theatre company, is staging a provocative and spirited comedy production of Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession”, a witty play about the ‘world’s oldest profession’, or is it about something else that is masquerading for a more insidious subject matter discussion: the misogyny of men in a patriarchal society who harbor the fear of being exposed for their shortcomings.
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Strange Ladies by Susan Sobeloff Front Page
Central Works and plays at Berkeley City Club
By: - Oct 21st, 2017Strange Ladies greatest strength is its informativeness about the history of the movement, and additionally about the Occoquan Workhouse Prison, where public officials contrived to imprison and abuse some of the suffrage women.
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Prince of Egypt World Premiere Front Page
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and Book by Philip LaZebnik
By: - Oct 21st, 2017This is a musical entertainment for the many, not a Sunday School lesson for the few.
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Exploring Annapoilis Maryland Front Page
Three Hundred Years of History
By: - Oct 21st, 2017The state of Maryland was named after Henrietta Maria of France, the queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I. Maryland is the only state in the United States whose judges wear red robes.
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Beach Detritus Word
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Group Fundraises to Block Berkshire Museum Sale Front Page
Save the Save
By: - Oct 13th, 2017“This is a classic case of confronting a well-organized, well-financed, misguided inside group, hoping to lead them to their better angels,” said Leslie Ferrin, founder of Save the Art. “That’s why we’re crowd-sourcing Save the Art’s legal action fund. We want to invite people to step up at whatever level they can, and say, “we support finding a better solution.”
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The Odd Couple Warhol and Rockwell Front Page
Populism as Commonality Explored at Rockwell Museum
By: - Oct 12th, 2017The artists Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol became rich and famous for giving the public what it wanted. It is this shared populism which is explored in an evocative exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Not surprisingly the exhibition has been mobbed with visitors.
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