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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Ride Hamilton and David Kaplan Collaborate Front Page
The Hotel Plays at Berta Walker Gallery
By: - Oct 01st, 2015Last 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.
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Tennessee Williams Cabaret Front Page
Armando Arrocha and Colette Simple
By: - Sep 30th, 2015During 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.
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Reign in Spain Word
Tropical Depression
By: - Sep 30th, 2015Last 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.
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Tennessee Williams Old and New Front Page
Year Tenn and Reading of a Guare Work in Progress
By: - Sep 29th, 2015In 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.
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Yin and Yang of Tennessee Williams Front Page
From Juvenalia to Theatre of the Absurd
By: - Sep 29th, 2015Over 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,
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Real Women Have Curves Front Page
Pasadena Playhouse Production
By: - Sep 29th, 2015The 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.
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Disgraced at the Goodman Theatre Front Page
Pulitzer Prize Winning Play in Chcago
By: - Sep 29th, 2015Kimberly 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.
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Eclipse Word
09/27/2015
By: - Sep 28th, 2015From the beach in Truro, looking up into the clear night sky, we watched the first lunar eclipse in thirty years.
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Harvest Moon Word
Late September in Truro
By: - Sep 27th, 2015Bookending 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.
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Jackson Pollock Inspired Tennessee Williams Front Page
David Kaplan Discusses The Day On Which a Man Dies
By: - Sep 26th, 2015David 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.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Front Page
Launching the Festival with Two Plays at The Provinctown Theater
By: - Sep 25th, 2015For 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.
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Tempest Chicago Shakespeare Front Page
Inventive Production
By: - Sep 24th, 2015A bewitching production of Shakespeare's most exotic and evocative play. The Tempest roars at Chicago Shakeapeare.
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Chicago Critic Visits New York Front Page
Covers Hamilton, The Flick and Desire
By: - Sep 21st, 2015Our 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.
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The Christians NY Hit by Lucas Hnath Front Page
From the Humana Festival to Playwrights Horizons
By: - Sep 21st, 2015The 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.
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Geneva by George Bernard Shaw Front Page
Staged Reading at Chicago's Ruth Page Theater
By: - Sep 21st, 2015Shaw 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.
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Former ICA Director Milena Kalinovska Front Page
Discusses the ICA and New Challenges for the National Gallery in Prague
By: - Sep 19th, 2015This 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.
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The Bet Directed by Finola Hughes Front Page
End of Summer Teen Flick
By: - Sep 18th, 2015As “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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Bonsai Word
A Forty-year-old Ficus
By: - Sep 18th, 2015We don't keep pets but in a way plants are among our loved ones. Astrid nurses them through winter but gave up on the diseased bonsai riddled with sticky leaves and scale. With last ditch triage I removed the leaves and pruned it to a stump. We changed the soil a team effort that has now seemingly paid off. At least for now.
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Exorcising Black Mass Front Page
Whitewashing the Bulgers and Southie
By: - Sep 18th, 2015Under a ton of makeup to get the look Johnny Depp is pretty good as Whitey Bulger. But, lets face it, when it comes to epic crime flicks he pales by comparison to Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in the Godfather. In directing Black Mass at best Scott Cooper is a Martin Scorsese or Mario Puzo wannabe.
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Anniversary Word
Say it with Flowers
By: - Sep 17th, 2015On Wednesday nights I rushed from one teaching gig to another. Touching base at home in East Boston before a commute to U. Mass Lowell. Always bought a bouquet of flowers at the Arlington T stop. It was a weekly ritual that now and then I forgot. Until the first frost Astrid has bouquets in every room.
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Best Tent Word
Not a Neat Freak
By: - Sep 14th, 2015Part of camp was learning to make beds and keep a neat tent. It was something that just didn't interest me.
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Summer Camp Word
First Winona Then Loon Pond
By: - Sep 14th, 2015Camp Winona, for rich kids, had all the perks. Joined Troop Ten at Chestnut Hill. That summer I turned down Winona to be with my pals at Loon Pond a Boy Scout camp for inner city kids. You got a Merit Badge just for surviving the summer and going home alive.
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Other People Opinion
Why Infinity Is Not
By: - Sep 13th, 2015The infinity of time and space is not. The only limitation is an ability to understand. For all else there's God.
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Flynn Foundation Word
Built on Rockport Granite
By: - Sep 13th, 2015The Irish rebels, Edward, my great grandfather, and Patrick Flynn, members of Sinn Féin fled to Montreal in the 1920s. They made their way to Concord, New Hampshire then worked the quarries of Cape Ann. My grandfather, James, married Mary a Nugent of Rockport.
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Tournament Word
Rocks Covered in People
By: - Sep 12th, 2015Catching the last of the beach as summer turns to autumn.
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