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Charles Giuliano

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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:

  • O'Neill's Ah Wilderness in Pasadena Front Page

    At A Noise Within Theatre

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 17th, 2017

    “Ah, Wilderness”, O’Neill’s paean to the youth he never experienced, is a sweet, nostalgic, coming of age comedy that had the good fortune to land in the capable and caring hands of director Steven Robman, and a cast of exceptional performers.

  • Punctuation Word

    Screw the Rules

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 16th, 2017

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  • Geoff Sobelle's The Object Lesson Front Page

    Lots of Stuff at New York Theater Workshop

    By: Edward Rubin - Mar 15th, 2017

    The one-man-play by and starring Geoff Sobelle is about demented hoarding. Not surptrisinglty it appealed to Ed Rubin, a known packrat, who writes that "I also thought about my 82 boxes in storage and all of the hundreds of objects that inhabit every shelf, table top, and drawer in my apartment, each one harboring past memories that I have collected over the years."

  • Williamstown Theatre Festival Upgrades Front Page

    Jayne Atkinson Cast and Heather Raffo Gets Weissberger New Play Award

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 15th, 2017

    Two-time Tony Award-nominee Jayne Atkinson and Cote de Pablo will appear in Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House; Tony Award-nominee Micah Stock will appear in Jason Kim’s The Model American and Halley Feiffer’s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow; Christopher Livingston, LeRoy McClain and Joniece Abbott-Pratt will perform in Harrison David Rivers’ Where Storms are Born; and Rebecca Henderson will perform in Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow.

  • Corneille’s L’IIlusion Comique Front Page

    Adapted by Tony Kushner for North Coast Rep

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 13th, 2017

    In the current North Coast Repertory Theatre production Tony Kushner translates and adapts 17th century French playwright Pierre Corneille’s “L’IIlusion Comique” into a delicious and superbly acted French soufflé of a comedy/farce called “The Illusion”.

  • Artists As Pinball Wizards Front Page

    Exhibition at the Elmhurst Museum

    By: Nancy Bishop - Mar 11th, 2017

    Kings & Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago sets 16 working vintage pinball machines in several galleries with about 30 pieces of art by the pioneers of 1960s and ‘70s Chicago Imagists: Ed Paschke, Karl Wirsum, Suellen Rocca, Ed Flood, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Christine Ramberg, Roger Brown and Ray Yoshida. The connection, of course, is that the artists were influenced in childhood and adolescence by the art of pinball machines and comic books.

  • Remembering Critic Larry Murray Front Page

    Founded Berkshire Theatre Awards

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 11th, 2017

    After a long illness, on March 10, the widely respected publisher and editor of Berkshire on Stage and Screen, Lawrence “Larry” Murray, passed away. He organized the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association. Last November he rallied to attend the First Annual Bertkshire Theatre Awards. He presented the top award, named for him, to Jullian Boyd of Barrington Stage for community service through theatre.

  • Barrington Adds Bye Bye Birdie Front Page

    Updates to Pittsfield Schedule

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 10th, 2017

    Barrington Stage Company adds a reading of the musical Butterflies, Speech & Debate on the St. Germain Stage, and its annual youth production, Bye Bye Birdie, at the Pittsfield Museum.

  • Nightly Sorbet Word

    Ridiculous Reruns

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 09th, 2017

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  • A Few Good Men at St. Joseph Players Front Page

    Stone's Throw from Yucca Valley Marine Base

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 09th, 2017

    Rebecca Havely has selected the powerful military courtroom drama “A Few Good Men”, written by Academy and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin as her directing choice for 2017. St. Joseph's Players in Yucca Valley, California, is only a stone’s throw away from one of largest Marine bases in the country.

  • Huntington Theatre Company 2017-2018 Front Page

    Extensive Upgrade of Site and Services

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 08th, 2017

    The 36th season will include four plays at the Huntington Avenue Theatre, as well as three plays at the Wimberly Theatre and one special event in the Roberts Studio Theatre, both located in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in the South End.

  • ICA To Lease Expanded Space Front Page

    Two if by Sea in East Boston

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 07th, 2017

    When the Institute of Contemporary Art opened its waterfront home there were awards for the dramatic design by Diller Scofido and Renfro. Immediately, however, it was obvious that with 65,000 square feet, and just its top floor for exhibitions, there was no plan for expansion and growth. For the next five to ten years the ICA is leasing a 15,000 square foot industrial place in East Boston. Visitors will commute by ferry to the seasonal Watershed which opens in the summer of 2018.

  • Iowa's Field of Dreams Front Page

    If Your Build It They Will Come

    By: Susan Cohn - Mar 06th, 2017

    The Ghost Players who emerge from the cornfield in the movie are re-enacted at the movie site by local residents in period White Sox uniforms.

  • O'Neill's Long Day’s Journey into Night Front Page

    Compelling at Geffen Playhouse

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 04th, 2017

    Geffen’s Artistic Director Randall Arney, took on the challenge of producing O’Neill’s masterpiece. Staged by acclaimed director Jeanie Hackett, this revival of “Long Day’s Journey into Night” features gifted actors: the superb Alfred Molina as James Tyrone , the brilliant Jane Kaczmarek as morphine addicted Mary Tyrone, Stephen Louis Grush as the star-crossed and fated Jamie Tyrone, and Colin Woodell as young Edmund Tyrone (the alter-ego of Eugene O’Neill), a poet/writer battling tuberculosis and alcoholism.

  • Annual Steinberg Awards Finalists Front Page

    Juried by American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA)

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 04th, 2017

    The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2016.

  • Glenn Close Ignites Sunset Boulvard Front Page

    Ready For Her Closeup on Broadway

    By: Edward Rubin - Mar 04th, 2017

    Glenn Close is the magnet that is filling the house – the musical has already been extended a month – and everything, from her glittering silver and gold lame wardrobe (Anthony Powell), makeup (Charlotte Hayward), wigs (Andrew Simonin), the set (James Noone), and even the other actors in the play who mostly fade into the background when Close is on stage, play second fiddle to her electrifying presence which at times threatens to ignite the theater.

  • Tony Winner Fun Home in LA Front Page

    National Tour Visits Ahmanson Theatre

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 02nd, 2017

    The national tour production, of 2015 Tony winner Fun Home is now on the stage of The Ahmanson Theatre. It is an eye-opening and somewhat of a ground-breaking production, in that it tells the story of a gay young woman’s sexual awakening in a troubled Pennsylvania family.

  • Revival of Zoot Suit at Mark Taper Forum Front Page

    75 Years After Its Original Prduction Still Thrills

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 02nd, 2017

    In 1977, playwright/director Luis Valdez, brought his play “Zoot Suit” to Gordon Davidson, the Artistic Director of the Mark Taper Forum with the hope that one of the country’s most prestigious Regional Theatres would produce his controversial story of social injustice and police brutality toward Latino’s in the city of Angels. And he wanted to do it with a cast of mostly Latino performers.

  • Berkshires WAM 2017 Season Front Page

    Collaborations with Berkshire Theatres

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 01st, 2017

    The Berkshire-based professional theatre company celebrates its eighth year with two Main Stage productions, a thought-provoking series of play readings, and several exciting new collaborations and initiatives 2.017 season explores a broad range of perspectives around issues affecting women and girls.

  • The Cut Bridge Word

    Connecting Cape Ann to the World

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 25th, 2017

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  • 10x10 Upstreet in Pittsfield Front Page

    Barrington’s 6th New Play Festival

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 25th, 2017

    With the exception of the gravitas of Raghead by Tom Coash the 6th annual 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage was upbeat, lively and often hilarious.

  • Annie Baker Adapts Uncle Vanya Front Page

    Goodman Theatre Production Directed by Robert Falls

    By: Nancy Bishop - Feb 25th, 2017

    The truest and most palpably Chekhovian version of Vanya may well be Annie Baker’s new translation/adaptation, which opened this week at the Goodman Theatre, directed by Robert Falls

  • Jim Jarmusch and Paterson Front Page

    Film's Quest for Poetry

    By: Nancy Kempf - Feb 25th, 2017

    Jim Jarmusch’s new film “Paterson” – about a poet named Paterson who drives a bus for a living in Paterson, New Jersey – is concerned not simply with poetry and the craft of prosody, but with the very nature of language itself.

  • Federal Support for the Arts Under Attack Front Page

    Five Boston Museum Directors Express Concern

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 24th, 2017

    Five Boston museum directors have signed a letter of concern over reports that the National Endowment for the Arts is under threat of being abolished, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Under the conservative agenda of the Trump adminsitration this is an attack on the arts in America. Guarding the Trumps in NY, DC and Palm Beach for a week is on a par with endowment support.

  • Surfin USA Word

    Wipeout

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 22nd, 2017

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