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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:

  • Hilarious World Premiere by Suzanne Heathcote Front Page

    Collaboration with Berkshire Theratre Group Launches New Neighborhood

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 19th, 2015

    In a bold move Berkshire Theatre Group has collaborated with New Neighborhood and a world premiere of its very first production. I Saw My Neighbor On the Train and I Didn’t Even Smile by the brilliant young British playwright, Suzanne Heathcote, is the must see show of the Berkshire season.

  • On the Porch Front Page

    Meeting the In Laws

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 18th, 2015

    Mom married under one condition. That after their internships and residencies the young doctors would return to Boston and her family. Josephine and James Flynn were shocked that their daughter married an Italian even though he was a surgeon. Dad eased into it with pipes on the porch.

  • Alonzo King LINES Ballet at Jacob's Pillow Front Page

    Conflating Classical Tradition and Contemporary Dance

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 18th, 2015

    The premise of choreographer Alonzo King is to base his company in the training and disciple of classical dance with a bold move into post modern dissolution of traditional gender hierarchies. Listening to Bach we are surprised to see very different choreography that extends to the present the innovations of the neo classicism of George Ballanchine.

  • Cynthia Nixon in Carey Perloff’s Kinship Front Page

    Sisterhood is Powerful at Williamstown Theatre Festival

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 17th, 2015

    Given the all star casting a number of shows during Mandy Greenfield's first season as artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival have sold out. This is particularly true for the smaller Nikos Stage where Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner Cynthia Nixon is featured in the three-hander Kinship by Carey Perloff, directed by Jo Bonney. In an example of gender reversal, the apparent point of this play, a woman in power, a successful editor, mentors a rookie reporter and risks career and family in an obsession that turns as dark as the fate of the Greek queen Phèdre. Perloff was directing a production of the Racine classic when it inspired her to write this play.

  • Baylor Bullies Front Page

    Sicilian Deep in the Heart of Texas

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 16th, 2015

    The oldest of seven children from an immigrant family in Brooklyn Dad was the first to attend college. With a pharmacy degree he worked three jobs to help support the family. He left home to focus on the goal of becoming a surgeon.

  • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Front Page

    Wynton Marsalis Returns to Tanglewood

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 15th, 2015

    On August 20, 2012 Wynton Marsalis shared an appearance at Tanglewood with bass player Christian McBride. Last night he returned to Ozawa Hall with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. This superb group of New York based musicians presented a program of traditional big band music from the 1930s and 1940s in the first half and works by members of the orchestra, including Marsalis, in the second.

  • Three Irish Lads People

    Two Nugents and a Flynn Set World Record

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 14th, 2015

    My grandfather and two Nugent in laws set a world record in 1898.

  • The Venetian in Vegas Front Page

    Lagoons in the Deserts of Nevada

    By: Susan Cohn - Jul 14th, 2015

    Amazingly you can take a gondola trip through the glorious Venetian an upscale resort hotel in Vegas. There is no need for an expensive trip to Italy when you can toss in gambling for a casino weekend here in the USA.

  • O' Maley Birthday Party People

    Renting the Hockey Rink with Pizza

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jul 14th, 2015

    On the way to Ipswich for a birthday party. Renting the hockey rink with pizza to celebrate.

  • Adams Front Page

    The Terrorist Next Door

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 14th, 2015

    On Monday nights a group of artists meet for dinner and gossip at Sushi House. Great food and margaritas served by Joy with just that. In the busy summer season there's a lot to talk about. Eric Rudd had hosted his annual Beach Party on Eagle Street. Fun stuff, news of exhibitions, projects and book launches. Then it got real dark.

  • Brilliant Adventures by Alistair McDowall Front Page

    St Chicago's New Steep Theatre Through August 15

    By: Nancy Bishop - Jul 14th, 2015

    Brilliant Adventures, the grim and grimly funny new Steep Theatre production, was written by Alistair McDowall and directed by Robin Witt. It was first performed in Manchester in 2011 and won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

  • Bells Are Ringing at the Colonial Front Page

    Reviving a 1950s Hit Broadway Musical in the Berkshires

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 12th, 2015

    The terrific husband and wife team of Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat star in a revival of the 1950s musical Bells are Ringing. It brings star power to the Colonial in Pittsfield to July 26.

  • Tony Winning Actor/Director Roger Rees at 71 Front Page

    Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival 2004 to 2007

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 11th, 2015

    Roger Rees, who has died following a medical procedure in May, had a long association with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The renowned Tony winning actor/ director first came to Williamstown as an actor. From 2004 to 2007 he was the artistic director of WTF. He returned last summer for a revival of the Kander and Ebb musical The Visit which is currently on Broadway starring Chita Rivera.

  • Nederlands Dans Theater 2 at Jacob's Pillow Front Page

    A Heady Confluence of Ballet and Experimental Dance.

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 11th, 2015

    Nederlands Dans Theater was founded in 1959 and with some 600 works in its portfolio has been one of the most influential global companies. In 1978 a younger second company was formed and this is its first week in Becket since 2007.

  • On the Eve Front Page

    Winter Pone People

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jul 11th, 2015

    Ice skating on the eve of turning 76 has its treacheries. But also the joy of teaching to the toddlers potential future Bruins.

  • Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art Front Page

    Florida Themed Collection in Daytona Beach

    By: Susan Cohn - Jul 10th, 2015

    The newly opened (February 2015) Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art in Daytona Beach features a collection of 2,600 Florida themed oil and watercolor paintings, some dating back to the early 1800s, which recount the state’s cultural, geographic and natural history.

  • James Flynn Front Page

    Ran Boston Taverns and Inns

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 10th, 2015

    The only difference between the Boston Irish Flynn and Kennedy clans is that the Kennedys made more money selling bootleg booze. Three of four Flynn children graduated from college. Two went on to careers in medicine and one in law. Uncle Arthur sat on the Federal bench. The Kennedys , of course, knew some success in politics.

  • Old Mr. Boston Word

    How Yankees Celebrate Independence Day

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 09th, 2015

    During a party on the rocks in posh Northeast Harbor, Maine I discovered how old money stays that way.

  • 1913 People

    On the Cusp of WWI Tragedy Struck for the Nugent Family

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 09th, 2015

    In 1913 the European avant-garde was shown in the Armory Show in New York. In Paterson New Jersey the IWW led a strike. The world braced for war. In one terrible year Mary Nugent of Rockport lost two sons and a daughter.

  • Beaver Dam Farm Front Page

    Nugent Homestead 1875 to 1927

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 08th, 2015

    In 1658 on 32 acres of land James Babson built a stone building now the oldest in Rockport. It is all that survives of the once extensive Beaver Dam Farm which my ancestors, the Nugents, leased from 1875 to 1927. Patrick died at 50 in 1900 and Mary raised their family of 13 and managed the farm until her death in 1927. Their son George moved up the street and became the owner of the largest expanse of land on Cape Ann including initially all of Good Harbor Beach.

  • Patrick Nugent People

    Scoundrel and Patriach of an American Clan

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 08th, 2015

    Dead at 50 Patrick Nugent of Rockport left his wife Mary with 13 children. As well as one more on the side with her sister.

  • Deathtrap at Berkshire Theatre Group Front Page

    Now Kissing in Stockbridge

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 08th, 2015

    In this staging of Ira Levin's enduring 1978 comic-mystery the men do not kiss. That cause a sensation decades ago on Broadway. The lip smacker is now banned by Levin's estate. But in a play that is chock full of clues you would have to be utterly clueless not to conclude that the washed up playwright Sidney (Gregg Edelman) isn't shagging his former student Clifford (Tom Pecinka). For a fun evening with no heavy lifting get thee to Stockbridge.

  • Ancestors People

    The Nugents of Rockport

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 07th, 2015

    Ancestors is the first of a suite of poems The Nugents of Rockport. Born within a year of each other, 1850 and 1851, Patrick and Mary wed in 1875 and soon settled in Rockport. Soon after marriage Charles, the first of 13, was born. Initially, they leased land then in the 1920s, George, the heir to Beaver Dam Farm brought property down the road. He became the largest and richest land owner and the political whip of Cape Ann.

  • Ella Baff to Leave Jacob's Pillow Front Page

    Joins The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

    By: Pillow - Jul 07th, 2015

    For the past 17 years audiences at Jacob's Pillow have been greeted by executive and artistic director Ella Baff. During summers in the Berkshires Pillow is the epicenter of the dance world. She will continue through the end of the summer festival then leave to take a position at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York City. We will miss her upbeat invitation "Let's Dance!"

  • "Composition…Master-Pieces…Identity” Front Page

    Breathing Life into the Words of Gertrude Stein

    By: Edward Rubin - Jul 07th, 2015

    Here, curiously, Edward Rubin conflates his passion for Gertrude Stein and Ludwig Wittgenstein! Go figure. The Off Off production that prompts him to quote generously from Stein has, alas, closed at the time of posting this review. If you are intrigued by "A rose is a rose is a rose" then this is a name that surely will smell as sweet.

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