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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:

  • The Homecoming by Harold Pinter Front Page

    Brutalist Realism at Berkshire Theatre Group

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 04th, 2015

    Kudos to Berkshire Theatre Group for the tough love of presenting a smash to the head in a stunning production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming. Eric Hill has brilliantly directed a superb cast in an always challenging Pinter play.

  • Festival Travel

    Art in Narrow Streets

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 03rd, 2015

    Come early and stay late. Staying for a week by the sea for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. Four intense days of performances bookended by walks on the beach.

  • Random Word

    Polka Dots and Moon Beams

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Oct 03rd, 2015

    Shocked to learn that a former neighbor in Annisquam, Ben Hedbloom, died last week.

  • In Your Arms at Old Globe Front Page

    World Premiere of Musical in San Diego

    By: Jack Lyons - Oct 03rd, 2015

    “In Your Arms” is the brain-child of brilliant choreographer/director Christopher Gattelli and Broadway producer Jennifer Manocherian. It is having its world premiere at Old Globe in San Diego.

  • Icelandic Portfolio Travel

    Arni's Birthday Party 2015

    By: Pippy Giuliano - Oct 03rd, 2015

    Recently Pippy Giuliano and her family, husband Yuri Tuvim, and daughter Sarah traveled to Iceland. Yuri has family there and they have been frequent visitors over many years. The occasion was to celebrate Arni's birthday. Pippy, a gifted artist, created a stunning portfolio of images. They richly convey the rugged natural beauty of a spectacular landscape.

  • Rastas in P'Town Food

    Taste of Home Cooking

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 02nd, 2015

    With seasonal work visas the Jamaicans staff Provincetown restaurants and motels. For a good meal that reminds them of home there is takeout at the colorful food shack on Shankpainter road. The goat curry stew we tried was simply divine.

  • Amy Arbus: After Images Front Page

    Provincetown Arts Association and Museum

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 02nd, 2015

    Blessed/ burdened with the fame of her photographer mother, Amy Arbus, after youthful resistance and the pursuit of studying music, was lured into a career in photography. She has had some 25 one woman shows and published five books. The stunning and sensual exhibition of modern master appropriations, Amy Arbus: After Images, is on view at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum through November 15.

  • Vico Word

    Privincetown Tales

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 01st, 2015

    We met our artist friends Vico and Grace for a leisurely Sunday brunch on a glorious fall day in Provincetown. With full body language, shrugs, and accents Vico entertained us with a hilarious story of a scary encounter.

  • Ride Hamilton and David Kaplan Collaborate Front Page

    The Hotel Plays at Berta Walker Gallery

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 01st, 2015

    Last April, cramped into small rooms in the French Quarter for The Hotel Plays of Tennessee Williams, we first encountered the photographer Ride Hamilton. This past week we again interacted during the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. In addition to the performances we much enjoyed his installation, a collaborator with the festival curator, director and scholar, David Kaplan, at the Berta Walker Gallery. It richly evoked memories of New Orleans.

  • Tennessee Williams Cabaret Front Page

    Armando Arrocha and Colette Simple

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 30th, 2015

    During the recent Provinctetown Tennessee Williams Festival we attended two performances of cabaret, based on works of Williams at the Crown and Anchor. The two experiences comprised a study in contrast with the best and worst of the tenth annual festival.

  • Reign in Spain Word

    Tropical Depression

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 30th, 2015

    Last week in Provincetown we had glorious late September weather. Today a tropical storm is soaking the Berkshires. It's a good day to just stay in bed so she said.

  • Tennessee Williams Old and New Front Page

    Year Tenn and Reading of a Guare Work in Progress

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 29th, 2015

    In ten years the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival has premiered eleven works by Williams as well as ones inspired by him. There was a retrospective of 15 excerpts at Town Hall during thi year's festival. The special treat of the festival was a sneak preview of "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven," based on a Williams short story, a work in progress by John Guare.

  • Yin and Yang of Tennessee Williams Front Page

    From Juvenalia to Theatre of the Absurd

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 29th, 2015

    Over four days we attended nine performances during the tenth annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. This planned from the juvenalia of Parade, written during his first visit in 1940, through The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde a violently erotic example of Grand Guignol created near the end of a long and tormented life,

  • Real Women Have Curves Front Page

    Pasadena Playhouse Production

    By: Jack Lyons - Sep 29th, 2015

    The current comedy production “Real Women Have Curves”, written by Josefina Lopez, is skillfully directed by Pasadena Playhouse associate artistic director Seema Sueko. The story set in a tiny sewing factory in East Los Angeles in 2015, celebrates Latina power and Latina women’s bodies.

  • Disgraced at the Goodman Theatre Front Page

    Pulitzer Prize Winning Play in Chcago

    By: Nancy Bishop - Sep 29th, 2015

    Kimberly Senior, who has directed Disgraced since its first 2012 production in Chicago at American Theater Company, directs Goodman's new production. She directed its Lincoln Center debut in late 2012 and then its Broadway production in 2014. Since then, it has become one of the most-produced plays in the country.

  • Eclipse Word

    09/27/2015

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 28th, 2015

    From the beach in Truro, looking up into the clear night sky, we watched the first lunar eclipse in thirty years.

  • Harvest Moon Word

    Late September in Truro

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 27th, 2015

    Bookending summer. In Truro in May, when the town comes away, then late September when it winds down. Three performances a day during Ten on Tenn. Tonight the harvest moon with an eclipse. Sand in our shoes to shake off in the city.

  • Jackson Pollock Inspired Tennessee Williams Front Page

    David Kaplan Discusses The Day On Which a Man Dies

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 26th, 2015

    David Kaplan directed The Day on Which a Man Dies by Tennessee Williams. It presented an over the top depiction of an ersatz deranged, stripped to his skivvies, paint spattered, drunken artist loosely based on Jackson Pollock. We have engaged in a lively exchange about the scholarly sources for the fascinating Pollock and Williams interactions. It appears that they knew each other on the beaches and in the bars of Provincetown.

  • Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Front Page

    Launching the Festival with Two Plays at The Provinctown Theater

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 25th, 2015

    For the first day of the Tenth Annual Provinctown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival we attended a matinee of The Day on Which a Man Dies and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. Both plays were presented by the returning festival favorites Abrahamese & Meyer Productions from Cape Town, South Africa. The plays and performances were truly astonishing.

  • Tempest Chicago Shakespeare Front Page

    Inventive Production

    By: Nancy Bishop - Sep 24th, 2015

    A bewitching production of Shakespeare's most exotic and evocative play. The Tempest roars at Chicago Shakeapeare.

  • Chicago Critic Visits New York Front Page

    Covers Hamilton, The Flick and Desire

    By: Nancy Bishop - Sep 21st, 2015

    Our Chicago theatre correspondent, Nancy Bishop, recently checked in at the Edison Hotel in the heart of Times Square. She reports on several hot shows: Hamilton, The Flick and Desire.

  • The Christians NY Hit by Lucas Hnath Front Page

    From the Humana Festival to Playwrights Horizons

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 21st, 2015

    The consensus among critics attending the 38th Humana Festival in Louisville rated The Christians by Lucas Hnath as the best new play. It has now opened to strong reviews at New York's Playwrights Horizons. This is a reposting of our original review.

  • Geneva by George Bernard Shaw Front Page

    Staged Reading at Chicago's Ruth Page Theater

    By: Nancy Bishop - Sep 21st, 2015

    Shaw Chicago's new production of Geneva a 1938 play is another in its concert readings, performed by 12 costumed actors who clearly revel in the richness of Shaw's dialogue and characterizations. Director Robert Scogin takes advantage of the script's humor, political passions and ethnic stereotypes to stage a production that is funny and smart, and loaded with Shaw's diatribes against every form of political organization and chicanery.

  • Former ICA Director Milena Kalinovska Front Page

    Discusses the ICA and New Challenges for the National Gallery in Prague

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 19th, 2015

    This fall, under director Jill Medvedow, for the first time during her administration, the ICA will present a much anticipated historical exhibition surveying the impact of Black Mountain College on the post war American avant-garde. Under her predecessors, Milena Kalinovska and David Ross, there were many such projects. We spoke with Kalinovska about her Boston years as she prepared to depart with a three year contract as director of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery in her native Prague.

  • The Bet Directed by Finola Hughes Front Page

    End of Summer Teen Flick

    By: Jack Lyons - Sep 18th, 2015

    As “the Bet” plays itself out in this lighthearted, sort of silly but sweet rite of passage movie, Libby, Addison’s mom, also begins to date again after the death of her husband of several years ago.

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