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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Peerless by Jiehae Park in Pittsfield Front Page
Affirmative Action Via Macbeth
By: - Jul 25th, 2016In a raucous, energetic, daunting production of Peerless by Jiehae Park Barrington Stage has boldly brought twentysomething, off off Broadway to the Berkshires. This assault to the senses may not be appealing to older audiences. It gives us a lively glimpse into the mind set of evil twns evoking Macbeth to murder their way to acceptance at the colleges of their choice. Does that make sense?
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Romance Novels for Dummies at WTF Front Page
No Southern Comfort from Boo Killebrew
By: - Jul 24th, 2016What happens when you conflate Old Miss and Brooklyn routed through Boston University? As a playwright Boo Killebrew draws on her childhood and the heritage of gracious Southern women with the here-and-now sexual politics of a single mother and her sister traying to get the shards of her life together. That illusion of a stay at home wife and mother came to a screeching end with the death of her husband. Now just 29 she is picking up the pieces in a misfired drama striving for comedy.
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Fast Eddy Word
Catch Him If You Can
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016My friend Fast Eddy a Jewish/Indian is always on the go. His friends, who he calls "kids," hear from him by e mail about twenty times a day. There are more updates than AP or UPI. But you sense that he truly loves each and every one of us.
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Perhaps Word
Then Again Perhaps Not
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016He was angry and demanded answers. To which there was a diffident response that infuriated him all the more.
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Sense and Sensibility at Old Globe Front Page
Jane Austen Sparkles in San Diego
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016San Diego’s venerable Old Globe Theatre is currently staging a vibrant, engaging and thoroughly delightful production of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility”.
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Bright Ideas Brewing at MoCA Front Page
Last Call at 7 PM in North Adams
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016It seems like a win win. Bright Ideas Brewing offers uniqely crafted beer, ale and root beer in a high concept industrial space on the Mass MoCA campus. On every level from eccnetric hours, to noise levels and a flub on food it's time to rethink the business plan.
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War Paint at Chicago's Goodman Theatre Front Page
Competing Costemtic Queens
By: - Jul 22nd, 2016War Paint is the story of two cosmetic industry pioneers, women who achieved corporate success in an era when it was even more difficult to do so than today. But once you get past the competition between the Polish Jewish immigrant Helena Rubinstein (Patti LuPone) and the sunny blonde Elizabeth Arden (Christine Ebersole) known for her pink color palette, there’s not much story left.
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Ira J. Bilowit at 90 Front Page
Renowned New York Theatre Critic
By: - Jul 22nd, 2016Although elderly and in poor health Ira J. Bilowit, who has passed away at 90, continued to cover and work in theatre. Just last November he was co-chair, with Sherry Eaker, of a New York conference of the American Theratre Critics Association. He was among the most respected and revered members of that organization.
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The Fate of Water Word
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Buyer and Cellar at Miracle Theatre Front Page
One Man Show in Coral Gables
By: - Jul 22nd, 2016Barbra Streisand is in this original and highly entertaining play – sort of, although you believe she really is, judging from the electrifying, hyperventilation-defying, incredible performance from award-winning actor Chris Crawford. He plays a handful of characters throughout the roughly one-hour, 45-minute play with no intermission.
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Macbeth at Stratford Festival Front Page
Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino Rethinks the Scottish Play
By: - Jul 21st, 2016Shakespeare’s Macbeth was presented with no timid wariness about “the Scottish play” but instead a dark, mysterious exploration full of visual and emotional surprises, including a sexy young Macbeth and a terrifying, shifting landscape dominated by the three witches, not the royal killer couple. Stratford’s Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino is clearly the star of the production, directing it where it usually doesn’t go.
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Losing My Marbles Word
Not Just Conceptual Art
By: - Jul 21st, 2016To celebrate my retirement I hung a retrospective of some 100 photos in a show called Last Call. On that occasion in 2005 my artist friend Thad Beal gave me a gift of a box of marbles in anticipation of the impending downward spiral. It was funny at the time but now more real with every passing day.
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The Pirates of Penzance at Barrington Stage Front Page
Swashbuckling Rogues Invade Pittsfied.
By: - Jul 21st, 2016In a world gone utterly mad, for a great escape, there is nothing quite like an evening at Barrington Stage and the swashbuckling production of the perennial Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan. It has been masterfully created by that other theatrcal partnership Rando and Bergasse the pair that brought Barrington's On the Town to Broadway.
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Raeford Liles Word
My Oldest Friend
By: - Jul 20th, 2016Down and out on the Lower East side my Godfather, Raeford Liles, saved my ass. A former military man he got things done. On Sunday nights we worked a bar then celebrated with outrageours garden parties. He mixed the sangria in a waste basket and we grilled burgers with screen and a bed spring over charcoal. Still crazy after all these years my oldest friend has turned 93.
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Breath of Kings: Rebellion Front Page
Stratford Festival of Canada
By: - Jul 20th, 2016We welcome the distinguished critic Herbert Simpson and his coverage of Stratford Festival of Canada. Here he reviews Breath of Kings: Rebellion Richard II and Henry IV Part 1I which will be performed through September 24.
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Here and Now Word
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Neil Simon's Broadway Bound Front Page
Stage Door Theatre Florida
By: - Jul 19th, 2016In “Broadway Bound,” Neil Simon shines a light on people who are flawed. You not only forgive them at the end, you feel as though you’re leaving part of your own family as the curtain closes.
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Musical 1776 in Palm Beach Front Page
At Don and Ann Brown Theatre.
By: - Jul 18th, 2016The well-known historical musica "1776" about our founding fathers’ mission to make America independent from England is on stage through July 24 in the intimate, semi-circular Don and Ann Brown Theatre in Palm Beach, Florida.
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The Chinese Room at Williamstown Front Page
World Premiere of Michael West Play
By: - Jul 17th, 2016The hilarious comedy The Chinese Room by the Irish playwright Michael West is having its world premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival. The current production allows for fine tuning for when the play transfers Off Broadway to Manhattan Theatre Club. It is sure to be a hit in New York.
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Front Page
Perennial Jacob’s Pillow Favorites
By: - Jul 16th, 2016Returing to Jacob's Pillow for the twelth time Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presented a complex, varied and demanding evening of dance.
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Time After Time Word
A Perfect Stranger
By: - Jul 16th, 2016In the waiting room passing time with a perfect stranger.
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Between Riverside and Crazy at Steppenwolf Front Page
Funny and Poignant Stephen Adly Guirgis Play
By: - Jul 14th, 2016Between Riverside and Crazy is a rowdy, raunchy play with lots of action. (Sensitive ears alert: When I said raunchy, that’s what I meant.) Yasen Peyankov directs it with style and glee.
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Coda Word
Still Crazy After All These Years
By: - Jul 13th, 2016At 74, Paul Simon has annunced that his latest CD Stranger to Stranger will be his last. How absurd. It's prcisely when artists so often make their most poignant and compelling work. The void is the message.
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Rose Tattoo Word
What's in a Name
By: - Jul 12th, 2016"He was a rose" lamented Serafina lighting a candle to the memory of her husband. But another rose, Mangiacavallo,, proved to smell as sweet.
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Wastwater at Chicago's Steep Theatre, Front Page
By English playwright Simon Stephens
By: - Jul 12th, 2016Wastwater by Simon Stephens is a loosely connected trilogy of stories, skillfully directed by Robin Witt. They’re set near London’s Heathrow Airport, where the village of Sipson is threatened with obliteration for the sake of a new airport runway. The playwright is best known for his Tony-winning adaptation, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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