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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Pasta an Enchanting South Korean TV Series Television
Food and Romance in a Steamy Kitchen
By: - Jul 27th, 2013This summer we were utterly captivated by a South Korean romantic comedy Pasta set in the kitchen of an upscale Italian restaurant La Sfera. There were 20 amazingly well crafted and consistently surprising episodes in a series we never wanted to end. We urge you to check it out on Netflix.
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L-E-V at Jacob’s Pillow in American Debut Dance
Moonwalking and Beyond to Gaga Techno Beat
By: - Jul 27th, 2013To get a handle on the disembodied moves of the Israeli company L-E-V, making its American debut at Jacob's Pillow, think of a Michael Jackson Moonwalk. They have expanded his pop innovations into a stunning new style and vocabulary of dance. Their hour long work House left us hungry for more.
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Johnny Baseball Traded to Williamstown Theatre
Rounding Third in Extra Innings
By: - Jul 26th, 2013Since a world premiere and mixed reviews at American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge in 2010 the musical Johnny Baseball has undergone extensive revisions. On the intimate Nikos Stage its a hit for the Williamstown Theatre Festival where is has a short run through August 3. While feisty and mostly upbeat the energy shifts from fan outrage over the alleged Curse of the Bambino to a love story and the complex theme of institutional racism. That's at least three balls to keep in the air. Take away the fan base for the Red Sox and Yankees in the Berkshires and you wonder if the show has the momentum to make the playoffs.
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Elements Theatre Company of Cape Cod Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, August 9-11 and 16-18
By: - Jul 25th, 2013Elements Theatre Company of Cape Cod kicks off its 2013-14 year-long tribute to William Shakespeare with one of his most popular comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, August 9-11 and 16-18 at Paraclete House, Rock Harbor, Orleans. The inspiration for numerous adaptations, including Ingmar Bergman’s “Smiles of a Summer Night,†Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music,†and a star-studded 1999 feature film with Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the perfect escape on a hot summer’s eve.
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Sylvie Fortin to Head Biennale de Montreal Fine Arts
Next Biennale October 9, 2014 to January 4, 2015.
By: - Jul 25th, 2013Sylvie Fortin will assume her new duties on September 3, 2013. She will be responsible for the next edition of La Biennale de Montréal, which will take place at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) and across satellite sites from October 9, 2014 to January 4, 2015.
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Southern Comfort at Barrington Stage Theatre
Poignant New Transgendered Musical
By: - Jul 25th, 2013In varying stages of gender reassignment and an ability to pass in hostile Bubba Land a circle of friends are the focus of a new musical Southern Comfort having its world premiere at Barrington Stage. For audiences willing to accept this complex work on its own terms the experience to remarkable.
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Adams Updates The Salem Witch Trials at CATF Theatre
A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World
By: - Jul 24th, 2013With A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World it seems that Liz Duffy Adams has taken on the daunting challenge of a sequel to Arthur Miller's classic The Crucible. The real life adolescent hysterics who sent the innocent to the gallows, Abigail Williams and Mercy Lewis, reconnect with widely divergent views a decade later. The new play is a part of the 23rd annual Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in San Diego Architecture
Stoppard's Play at Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival
By: - Jul 24th, 2013In “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadâ€, Tom Stoppard’s absurdist take on the Bard’s masterpiece “Hamletâ€, has been hailed as a master work in itself, with “Hapgood†next, followed by the recent multiple Tony winning play “The Coast of Utopiaâ€.
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Nicholas Martin’s Gorgeous Pygmalion at WTF Theatre
Stars Robert Sean Leonard and Heather Lind in Shaw’s Masterpiece
By: - Jul 24th, 2013As a strong willed, crafty and independent guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle sold flowers to support herself. As a refined lady, transformed through a wager between the linguists Professor Henry Higgins and his colleague Colonel Pickering, in order to survive in circa 1913 London, she is forced to sell herself. As Shaw wrote his feminist inspired play there was no happy ending. Few if any directors have adhered to his intent which infuriated Shaw. In this stunning Williamstown production director Nicholas Martin provides a new twist,.
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U.S. House Slashes NEA Budget by Half Opinion
Proposes Cut of $71 Million to 1974 Level
By: - Jul 24th, 2013Today, the U.S House of Representatives Interior Appropriations Subcommittee approved its initial FY 2014 funding legislation, which includes a proposed cut of $71 million to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This would bring funding of the NEA down to $75 million, a level not seen since 1974! That's a national arts funding level for a Third World nation.
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Sam Shephard's Heartless at CATF Theatre
Triage in West Virginia
By: - Jul 23rd, 2013Sam Shephard's play Heartless had its 2012 premiere at Signature Theatre in New York City. It's getting a rewrite in a second production at Contemporary American Theatre Festival in West Virginia. While it has familiar Shepardesque aspects is that enough to breath life back into a surreal and enervating play?
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More Tanglewood Withdrawals This Weekend Music
Programs Continued as Scheduled with Substitutes
By: - Jul 23rd, 2013Because of a freak accident at home yesterday the BSO announced that newly appointed conductor, Andris Nelsons, will not be able to make his only Tanglewood appearance this season. Ironically this is an all too vivid reminder of the ongoing cancellations of James Levine. Today the other shoe dropped with more cancellations and substitutions of the pending programs this weekend.
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Jane Martin’s Riveting H2O at CATF Theatre
Intriguing Drama by Mysterious Playwright
By: - Jul 23rd, 2013Of the five plays of the 23rd Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, through July 28, the most buzz and impossible to get ticket, is generated by the elusive Jane Martin’s H2O.
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Contemporary American Theatre Festival Theatre
West Virginina Meeting of American Theatre Critics Association
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013The 23rd annual Contemporary American Theatre Festival opened on July 5 and ends on July 28 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Last week some 75 members and guests of the American Theatre Critics Association met in Shepherdstown to view and discuss five new plays. During a brutal national heat wave there was a busy schedule of performances, meetings, lectures, panel discussions, banquets and visits to surrounding Civil War sites. It was an intense and richly informative experience.
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Andris Nelsons Withdraws from Tanglewood Music
New BSO Director Suffers Concussion
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013One of the most anticipated Tanglewood concerts this summer was the only scheduled appearance of the newly appointed BSO director Andris Nelsons. Accordingly his conducting Verdi Requiem on July 27 has been cancelled. He was scheduled to meet with the media on Friday. The concert will be presented with a yet to be announced guest conductor.
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Modern Terrorism by Jon Kern in West Va. Theatre
Contemporary American Theatre Festival to July 28
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013Jon Kern, a writer for The Simpsons, was inspired by the aborted bombing attempt in Time Square to create the comedy Modern Terrorism: Or They Who Want to Kills Us and How We Learn to Love Them. This darkest of comedies attempts to humanize and humorize a suicide bomber avenging American drone strikes and attacks on Islamic citizens.
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Summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fine Arts
Visiting Modern and Contemporary Galleries
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013The artist Martin Mugar recently visited the modern and contemporary galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He discusses the challenge of emergring from the shadow of the renowned artists on view. As well as releasing the muse of his own limitations.
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Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend Music
Downtown Lee July 25-28
By: - Jul 16th, 2013The jazz weekend kicks off at 6pm on Thursday, July 25 with the screening of “A Life in E Flat,†a biographical profile of the legendary alto saxophonist, NEA Jazz Master and 4-time Grammy winner Phil Woods. Through a special arrangement with Jazzed Media, producers of jazz films and CDs, the screening at the Lee Library on Main Street is free and open to the public.
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Spice Dragon in Pittsfield Food
Asian Confusion Food
By: - Jul 15th, 2013With a winning combination of Asian Fusion food, ambiance, and moderate prices Spice Dragon in Pittsfield is a popular destination. Over several visits, however, the food and service has been inconsistent. Busy nights stretch the limits of understaffed and inexperienced front of house and an ability to get food to tables in a timely manner. In Pittsfield, however, there isn't much competition for dining on this level.
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Merchant of Venice at Old Globe Theatre
Summer Shakespeare Festival in San Diego
By: - Jul 15th, 2013San Diego's Old Globe annual Shakespeare Summer Theatre Festival in the Lowell Davies Outdoor Theatre is in full sway. The second production is the ambivalent and oft misinterpreted story “The Merchant of Veniceâ€, deftly directed by Adrian Noble. Scholars for centuries have debated the true meaning of the Bard’s play.
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MediTerra in North Adams Food
Authentic Turkish Delight
By: - Jul 14th, 2013It is difficult to find authentic international cuisine in the Berkshires. Owner Fahri Kakakaya has recruited a fellow Turk, Ahmet Alcay, as chef and relaunched the large space on Main Street in North Adams as Medi-Terra, American Mediterranean Bistro. There are Italian items on the menu but we opted to try the superb and unique Turkish Cuisine. We strongly recommend this for a winning combination of tasty, exotic flavors, affordable prices and a comfortable, uncrowded ambiance. Try it for salad and sandwiches at lunch or come back for a leisurely dinner with beer and wine.
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A Typical WTF Press Conference? Theatre
Actors are People Too
By: - Jul 13th, 2013The Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) season is in high gear. We attended the first WTF press conference to cover the next two productions of 'Pygmalion' by George Bernard Shaw and Johnny Baseball, the Boston Red Sox story, now a musical. It turned out to be a lively event!
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Rocco Sisto in Rarely Produced Richard II Theatre
Launching a S&Co. Tetraology of Four History Plays
By: - Jul 13th, 2013Over the next four years Shakespeare & Company will present a tetralogy of four history plays. The cycle begins this season with Richard II directed by Timothy Douglas and starring Rocco Sisto. Next year Johnathan Epstein will directed Henry IV.
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Mass MoCA Opens Kiefer Building September 27 Fine Arts
Work by German Master on View for 15 Years
By: - Jul 12th, 2013Initially Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson denied that there would be a new Kiefer Building. We reported it anyway ages ago. Thompson confirmed it during a recent interview and now its official as reported today in the Berkshire Eagle. The fun begins on September 27.
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Kate Burton in Stoppard’s Riveting Hapgood Theatre
Quantum Mechanics of the Spy Game
By: - Jul 12th, 2013I think I saw a great production of Tom Stoppard's Hapgood, starring Kate Burton at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. But then there's the Uncertainty Principle. Whether one enjoys this show depends upon whether you view it from a Newtonian or Quantum Mechanics point of view. It may or may not be the best drama of the Berkshire season. In a Stoppardesque sense.
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