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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Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler Front Page
At North Coast Repertory Theatre in San Diego.
By: - Jun 10th, 2016Long before TV soaps made their debut in America, Henrik Ibsen was scandalizing the patrons of Europe’s theatrical stages with similar themed plays. There’ is no doubt about it. We human beings are a complicated, conflicted, and a fascinating lot. Hedda Gabler has a fresh translation for this lively production.
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Former WBCN DJ Mark Parenteau at 66 Front Page
Last Years Marred by Scandal and Illness
By: - Jun 09th, 2016During a golden age when WBCN was the Rock of Boston Mark Perenteau was a larger than life presence. A mega watt presence was the catalyst for both fame and fortune as well as scandal and demise. He died from complications following surgery at 66.
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Rain Check Word
My Heart Belongs to Dada
By: - Jun 09th, 2016With regrets I turned down an invitation to lunch with fellow Berkshire resident Benno Fiedman. We knew each outer as art majors at Brandeis University in the 1960s and have been friends ever since. Evoking Duchamp's famous urinal as art his remarkable response waxed poetic.
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Provincetown Festival to Combine Williams and O'Neill Front Page
Annual Theatre Event from September 22 to 25
By: - Jun 09th, 2016We attended the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans which inspired us to participate in TWF in Provincetown in 2015. Both festivals were thrilling in presenting rare and insightful works. For the 2016 festival in Provincetown works by Williams will be paired with plays by Eugene O'Neill. His first works we created and produced by the Provincetown Players. The annual event will occur from September 22 to 25.
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Full Committed in Charleston Front Page
Smash Hit in 2016 Piccolo Spoleto Festival
By: - Jun 09th, 2016The Threshold Repertory Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina presented the hilarious and zany "Fully Committed" as a 2016 Piccolo Spoleto offering which was a festival favorite with sold-out performances.
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LA Dance Project Visits Charleston Front Page
More Coverage of Annual Spoleto Festival USA
By: - Jun 08th, 2016Harbor Me was choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to the music of Extension, Park Woojae Geomugo. This music sounded agonizing like a Yiddish kvetch. The stage was mostly dark with slight illumination from lights filtered through smoke.
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Tokyo Fish Story at Old Globe Front Page
If You Knew Sushi
By: - Jun 08th, 2016“tokyo fish story” is a splendid production that performs, without an intermission, on the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Stage and runs through June 26, 2016.
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Feeding the Bear by Michael Aman Front Page
World Premiere at Island City Stage Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jun 08th, 2016If “Feeding the Bear” doesn’t exactly break new ground, it works primarily because it’s the type of story with which many can identify. It’s a work that will make you cry one moment and laugh the next. Sometimes, you’ll do both simultaneously.
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Helmut Lachenmann's The Little Match Girl Front Page
Cutting Edge Opera at Spoleto Festival in Charleston
By: - Jun 07th, 2016Cramped into nose bleed seats it was excruciating to endure the experimental opera The Little Match Girl by Helmut Lachenmann. It was a presentation of the prestigious annual Spoleto Festival USA which is currently enjoying its 40th season in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Montezuma’s Revenge Word
Don't Drink the Water
By: - Jun 07th, 2016When turning on the tap do you trust the water? That used to be a problem for other nations. Like Mexico or even Europe as we discovered back in the day.
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Camp David by Lawrence Wright Front Page
At Old Globe in San Diego
By: - Jun 06th, 2016Artistic Director Barry Edelstein continues to provide San Diego audiences with first rate theatrical entertainment. “Camp David” performs on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage through June 19, 2016.
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Nick Payne's Constellations Front Page
Premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre
By: - Jun 06th, 2016Constellations, the new two-character play at Steppenwolf Theatre, is certainly a nonlinear story. Marianne (Jessie Fisher) and Roland (Jon Michael Hill) at times seem to be in parallel universes. She, an academic theoretical physicist, and he, a beekeeper.
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Long Point Word
Provinctown's Art in Narrow Streets
By: - Jun 06th, 2016As a graduate student research on Karl Knaths entailed visits to Provincetown and its historic art colony. Back then a group of now legendary artists showed at Long Point Gallery in what is now the Schoolhouse complex. I was on hand when they hung an exhibition. What remains are the grainy photos I took that day.
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Nunsense in Charleston Front Page
Footlight Players Part of Piccolo Spoleto
By: - Jun 05th, 2016Our coverage of Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston continues with Nunsense at Footlight Players. Saints preserve us.
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Lauren Gunderson's The Taming at S&Co;. Front Page
Political Comedy Disconnects
By: - Jun 05th, 2016Lauren Gunderson is widely renegaded as among the best and brightest of American playwrights. She can be thoughtful and provocative. With The Taming, however, which is being given an energetic and ambitious production, the comedy of brought down as too clever, thinky and talky for its own good. It was just too difficult to connect with and care for the unmanageable characters and their absurd situations.
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The Royale by Marco Ramirez Front Page
GableStage at Coral Gables, Florida
By: - Jun 04th, 2016The latter part of The Royale which played Broadway’s Lincoln Center Theater earlier this year, features one of the strongest, most powerful scenes of dramatic tension I’ve encountered in a theater in a long while
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Tragedy of Eugene O'Neill Front Page
Family Ravaged as Long Day's Journey Into Night
By: - Jun 04th, 2016Currently Long Day's Journey Into Night, the masterpiece of Eugene O'Neill, is enjoying an all star Broadway revival. One of the last of his plays before a decade of illness he left instructions that it not be published until 25 years after his life. It was produced in Sweden within three years of his death. Based on the horrendous circumstances of his alcoholic, drug addicted family he hoped to avoid collateral damage to survivors. It begs the question of who owns the moral and legal rights when artists draw upon family and friends as material for their art.
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John Hancock Word
Big and Bold
By: - Jun 03rd, 2016John Hancock, the wealthiest citizen of Boston was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence. His signature was big and bold so that George III, the imbecile King, would not need spectacles to read it. Had they lost it was a death warrant for the Founding Fathers. Yet again it is time to sign an enemies list denouncing a grave threat to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival Front Page
Fever Was Red Hot in Charleston
By: - Jun 03rd, 2016Piccolo Spoleto Festival is officially the outreach arm of Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of Spoleto Festival USA, and thirty-eighth year of Piccolo Spoleto.
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Fear Itself Word
Feel the Pulse of a Divided Nation
By: - Jun 03rd, 2016When we rallied to defeat Nazi Germany President Roosevelt assured Americans that "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Threatened with the rise of another demagogue fear again takes hold in the hearts and minds. A hate spewing billionaire with no prior political experience aspires to rule the world in his free wheeling, insulting, gun slinging manner. For those who have lost jobs and hope his jingoism has seductive and perhaps devastating appeal. It positions our nation on the edge of global disaster. The Donald has trumped even Nixon's notorious enemies list.
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Gloucester's The Rudder Restaurants
Popular Restaurant on Rocky Neck
By: - Jun 01st, 2016The artist's colony of Gloucester's Rock Neck, with views of the inner harbor, is a popular destination. There are two dining options The Rudder and The Studio both under the same management. Arriving early preseason we were offered a half price menu and seating on the porch.
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At Home With Lindsay Ann Crouse Front Page
Reflecting on a Remarkable Life in Theatre
By: - May 31st, 2016Having returned to Annisquam where she grew up during summers Lindsay Ann Crouse is performing annually with Gloucester Stage. We saw her launch the season with a lively and hilarious production of Lettice ad Lovage. As kids my sister Pip was Lindsay's age and I was a bit older than her brother Timothy. On a rainy day we met in her vintage village home and discussed a remarkable life in theatre with numerous stage, TV and film credits including an Oscar nomination and an Emmy.
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Spinning by Deirdre Kinahan Front Page
US Premiere at Irish Theatre of Chicago.
By: - May 31st, 2016Spinning is notable for its fine direction and acting. Dan Waller is one of those solid Chicago actors who plays many types of roles and makes each one his own. His portrayal of Conor is wrenching and passionate as he gradually learns so accept his responsibility for his actions.
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Greylock Greenhouse Word
Planting Annuals
By: - May 30th, 2016Brutal hot on Memorial Day. Picking up annuals at the greenhouse. Conversation resumed where it left off a year ago.
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Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook Front Page
Chicago's Underscore Theatre Company
By: - May 30th, 2016If the Haymarket story is unfamiliar, you can read about it before you see the play. The creators do a good job of telling a complex story, but everything will make more sense if you read before seeing this production.
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