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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Young Sturgeon Word
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Hitler on the Roof by Akvavit Theatre Front Page
Two Hander by Rhea Leman Has American Premiere in Chicago
By: - Jun 28th, 2017Playwright Rhea Leman, a native New Yorker, has lived and worked in Denmark since 1981. Her work concentrates on serious subjects treated in humorous or satiric ways. Her opera, The Rosenbergs, was chosen as best opera of 2015 and her play Gorilla, about the global financial crisis, gained her a nomination for best playwright of 2013.
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Traveling Sandy Revisits Frisco Front Page
Flashbacks to The Summer of Love
By: - Jun 28th, 2017San Francisco is for lovers as our correspondents Traveling Sandy Katz and her husband Gerry rediscovered. After an absence of decades they were thrilled to be back at the City by the Bay. If you visit now some fifty years after The Summer of Love be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
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brownsville song (b-side for tray) Front Page
Kimber Lee Play by Shotgun Players in Berkeley
By: - Jun 27th, 2017Victor Cordell is a new contributor who will cover theatre and opera in the San Francisco and Bay area. We met at he conference of American Theatre Critics Association in San Francisco. He reviews playwright Kimber Lee's brownsville song (b-side for tray) by Shotgun Players at Ashby Stage in Berkeley, through July 9.
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Sonoma Word
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Hanging With ATCA in Sausalito Front Page
The Legend of Georgia McBride
By: - Jun 20th, 2017There was a long day of meetings at Marin Theatre Company. The executives of American Theatre Critics Association were hosted for dinner on a houseboat in Sausalito. Then it was back to the theatre for an evening performance of the Matthew Lopez dark comedy The Legend of Georgia McBride.
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Shakespeare on the Hot Seat Front Page
Cal Shakes Presents As You Like It
By: - Jun 19th, 2017Now dead for centuries amazingly a lot of people are pissed off about Shakespeare. The actor uttering "Et tu Brute" in a controversial NY production strongly evokes our American Caesar, The Donald. This was a context for a meeting of American Theatre Critics Association for a panel and performance at Cal Shakes.
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The Roommate by Jen Silverman Front Page
Frisco Preview of Williamstown Play
By: - Jun 18th, 2017The tight and compelling two-hander The Roommate by Jen Silverman premiered at the Humana Festival a couple of years ago. While attending an ATCA theatre conference we enjoyed a superb production at the San Francisco Playhouse. It is also scheduled for the Main Stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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A Night with Janis Joplin Front Page
On Stage in San Francisco
By: - Jun 18th, 2017The spirit of the boozing and boisterous rocker is vibrantly on stage at American Conservatory Theatre in An Evening with Janis Joplin. In an incarnation by Kacee Clanton the blues rock belter from Port Arthur, Texas is back where it all started during the flower power hippie era of sweet and wild San Francisco. The touring company of the Broadway musical is playing to packed houses.
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Chirp Talk Word
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Jeanne Sakata’s Hold These Truths Front Page
Solo Show at Pasadena Playhouse
By: - Jun 10th, 2017Playwright Jeanne Sakata, a successful actor herself, premiered Hold These Truths in 2007 at East West Players in Los Angeles. It made its off-Broadway debut in 2012 with the Epic Theatre Ensemble, and has since been performed at numerous regional theatres including Portland Center Stage, the Guthrie Theater, Seattle’s ACT Theatre, and locally by Coachella Valley Rep in Palm Springs.
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The Spitfire Grill a Musical Dramedy Front Page
North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Jun 09th, 2017The current North Coast Repertory Theatre revival production of “The Spitfire Grill”, a musical dramedy written by James Valcq and Fred Alley with music by Valcq and lyrics by Alley, is a shining example of the power some ‘outsiders’ can bring to the table or to a community if just given a chance.
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Takashi Murakami's Pop Kitsch in Chicago Front Page
Enormous Exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art
By: - Jun 08th, 2017Takashi Murakami is best known for his work related to Japanese anime and manga, as well as his sweeps into commercial and pop art and collaborations with artists such as Kanye West and Pharrell Williams. During last week’s press preview, he was articulate in discussing his work and his inspirations with curator Michael Darling (although the artist occasionally needed help from his translator).
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Jane Hudson Exhibition in Williamstown Front Page
Exploring Modernism and Updating Abstraction
By: - Jun 07th, 2017Jane Hudson is known to the Berkshire arts community as the other half of the rock duo, Jeff and Jane, as well as for tending shop at various incarnations of Hudson's Antiques. On Sunday, June 17 from 3:30 to 5:30 PM., an exhibition of her abstract works on paper will open at Hudson Art, 112 Water Street in Williamstown.
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Tinnitus Word
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Clark Features Summer Double Header Front Page
Tandem Exhibitions of Picasso and Alma-Tadema
By: - Jun 03rd, 2017This summer the Clark Art Institute features four special exhibitions Picasso Encounters, an exhibition of prints with a few key paintings, as well as Orchestrating Elegance; Alma Tadema and the Marquand Music Room and two focused on prints and paintings by Helen Frankenthaler. The museum launched its expansion with a spate of blockbusters but is now moving into a new era with less hoopla under its reserved and scholarly French-born director Olivier Meslay.
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4000 Miles by Amy Herzog Front Page
Road Kill at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 03rd, 2017As a 91-year-old card carrying member of the Communist Party the always remarkable Annette Miller provides a magnificent performance as Vera Joseph. Her lonely life as a NY widow is disrupted by the middle of the night intrusion of her grandson Leo who has traveled from Seattle by bicycle. A crash of just a couple of days stretches into a month as they clash and argue with loving disaffection. It's complicated. The play 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog launches the season for Shakespeare & Company.
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Clean Coal Word
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Reconstructions by Sarah Fagan Front Page
Eclipse Mill Gallery Exhibition Through June 24
By: - May 30th, 2017The exhibition Reconstructions by Sarah Fagan at the Eclipse Mill Gallery through June 24 combines abstract works on paper and modular geometric objects. The artist created the works over several months while focused on applying to graduate school. She will enroll this fall in the MFA program at the University of Texas in Austin.
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MASS MoCA Celebrates Front Page
32 Years from Thought to Finish
By: - May 29th, 2017It was a challenge to find a legal parking space anywhere near the museum in North Adams. On Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, from dawn to dusk, there were long lines and a constant stream of visitors. There may have been some 6,000 during the day and another 10,000 attended the rock concert by Cake on MASS MoCA's Joe Thompson Field.
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Nick Cave at MASS MoCA Front Page
Sound Suits on Parade
By: - May 29th, 2017As part of the dawn to dusk celebration of the launch of Building Six of MASS MoCA there was a titubating parade of the Sound Suits of the artist Nick Cave. The event was choreographed by Williams College professor Sandra Burton. Cave was present for the occasion.
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Rock Star Gregg Allman Front Page
Band in Boston
By: - May 28th, 2017With their 1969 debut album the Allman Brothers, based in Macon, Georgia, launched the unique genre of Southern rock. On tour they were an immediate hit as an opening act at the Boston Tea Party. They were invited back for a later gig. The band opted to hang out rather than travel to home and back. They melded into the then emerging Boston music scene. Legendary lead guitarist, Duane Allman, died at 24 in I971. Now Gregg, the lead vocalist and keyboard player, has passed at 69 following several years of failing health.
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Jabberwocky Word
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Mary Chase’s Harvey at Court Theatre Front Page
Down the Rabbit Hole
By: - May 25th, 2017Harvey is that 6-foot-tall white rabbit and he is introduced to us by Elwood P. Dowd, played by Timothy Edward Kane in a warm, genial, slightly off-kilter way. Elwood is everyone’s friend and he’ll be sure to buy you a drink at Charlie’s and introduce you to Harvey. ”I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whoever I’m with,” Elwood says.
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The My Way Residential Front Page
Geraldine Aron World Premiere at Irish Theatre
By: - May 24th, 2017Geraldine Aron was born in Galway and lived for 20 years in South Africa and other African countries; she now lives in London. She dedicated this play to Pumla Lolwana and her children Lindani, Andile and Sesanda, whose tragic story inspired Byron’s story. The Irish Theatre of Chicago staged Aron’s hit play, My Brilliant Divorce, in 2015.
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