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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Batter Up for Johnny Baseball at Williamstown Theatre
Controversial ART Musical Steals Second Base
By: - Jul 11th, 2013If shows are not instant hits in regional theaters they rarely get a second chance. It is especially difficult to develop musicals. Johnny Baseball, a musical about the Boston Red Sox and the Curse of the Bambino, opened at American Repertory Theatre in June, 2010. The idea started in 2003 and development, with six new songs and other changes continues. It opens on July 24 at Williamstown Theatre Festival. During a recent press conference we asked about love/ hate relationships which resulted in Globe critic Louise Kennedy losing her job in reaction to her Johnny Baseball review.
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National Arts Club Settles with The James Group Opinion
Former Director Aldon James and Associates Ousted
By: - Jul 10th, 2013Several years ago, after decades of abuse of authority for the personal gain of its former director O. Aldon James his twin brother and associates, the National Arts Club in New York's Gramercy Park has enjoyed its day in court. James and his associates occupied considerable residential and storage space, filled with trash and flea market items, at below market rates. They have been ordered to pay back $900,000 and vacate their apartments by July 31.
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Robert Sean Leonard in WTF's Pygmalion Theatre
Talks About Life After Dr. Wilson on House
By: - Jul 10th, 2013Robert Sean Leonard appeared as Dr. Wilson the best friend of the curmudgeon Hugh Laurie's Dr. House from 2004 to 2012. They shot 175 episodes of the TV series House. That left Leonard the financial freedom to pick and choose roles in theatre. From July 17 to 27 he stars at Williamstown Theatre Festival as Professor Henry Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion directed by Nicholas Martin. The production, with changes, originated at the Old Globe in San Diego.
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Summer Shakespeare in San Diego Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Old Globe
By: - Jul 10th, 2013It is fitting that “Midsummer…â€, creatively directed by Ian Talbot, be the selection to kick off the 2013 Old Globe’s summer festival season. It’s one of Shakespeare’s most enduring comedies filled with oddball characters and silly liaisons and situations.
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Foreign Affairs – at Berliner Festspiele Theatre
Comments and Thoughts
By: - Jul 09th, 2013The Berliner Festspiele 2013 continue: From June 27 to July 14 with an array of performances etc. under the title: 'Foreign Affairs.' Theatre, music, dance, video, multi- and interdisciplinary works to actively draw in the public have been scheduled. Foreign, as in new and cutting edge - and foreign, as in international companies and artists, are presented.
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Broadway in the Berkshires Theatre
Stars Shine in Benefit for Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jul 09th, 2013Broadway in the Berkshires, produced by Deborah Grausman and hosted by John Douglas Thompson, was presented as a benefit for the Education and Training programs of Shakespeare & Company. Singer and actor Grausman, appearing this summer in Master Class, was able to call in favors from her many and diverse Broadway, Off Broadway and S & Co. colleagues. Over 300 tickets were sold and upwards of 75 Shakespeare & Company artists and other special guests were also in attendance. The benefit raised $110, 000.
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Letter from Berlin #3: Anish Kapoor Fine Arts
The Beautiful and the Sublime
By: - Jul 08th, 2013Kapoor in Berlin (closing November 24) is a show I had looked forward to seeing, and it did not disappoint. Anish Kapoor (born 1954 in Mumbai; British citizen, recently knighted) creates massive sculptures from different materials that vary from forms that look like prehistoric rock formations, to highly reflective steel, to sticky red wax. Two years ago I was delightfully overwhelmed with his Cloud Gate, 2004-06, installed at the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park in Chicago.
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Oklahoma at the Colonial in Pittsfield Theatre
Like Watching Corn Grow
By: - Jul 07th, 2013The iconic 1943 Oklahoma, with the magnificent music of Rodgers and Hammerstein would seem to be a shoe in hit for the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfeld. While the production has stunning moments, caveat emptor, the whole is less than the sum of its parts. After five decades the jingoism and heart on the sleeve Americana which wowed audiences during World War II is hardly convincing today.
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Five Guys in Pittsfield Food
Evaluating Berkshire Burgers
By: - Jul 06th, 2013A franchise of the Five Guys chain of burger joints has opened in a Pittsfield mall. The Pit Bulls offer their reflections on the dining experience as well as views of the science of the perfect burger.
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Scorching BSO Tanglewood Opening Night Music
Joshua Bell and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos’s Tchaikovsky
By: - Jul 06th, 2013The Koussevitzky Music Shed and lawn were packed for the opening last night of the 76th season of BSO's renowned Tanglewood Music Festival. Solo violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos’s performed an all Tchaikovsky program. While heart warming, under sauna like conditions, the musicians and audience were over heated and drenched by the end of a muggy, oppressive evening.
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Kate Burton on Stoppard's Hapgood at WTF Theatre
Three Generations of Burton Family Theatre
By: - Jul 05th, 2013While a graduate student at Yale Kate Burton first performed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1980 with Frank Langella and Christopher Reeve as leading men. In 1987 she returned with her husband , Michael Ritchie, who later took over as artistic director, with Jenny Gersten as his associate. From July 10 to 21 she stars at WTF in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood. She took time from rehearsals to discuss finding her own way in theatre as the daughter of Richard Burton. Next year Nicholas Martin will direct Kate and her son Morgan Ritchie in Chekhov's The Seagull for Boston's Huntington Theatre.
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American Hero by Bess Wohl at WTF Theatre
Taking a Bite Out of Corporate America
By: - Jul 03rd, 2013Bess Wohl returns to Williamstown Theatre Festival for her sixth season and second as a playwright. American Hero a send up of the fast food industry and corporate America is a side splitting hoot. While a hilarious play it also leaves us with food for thought. As Jack Nicholson would say "Give me a BLT but hold the lettuce, hold the bacon and hold the tomato." Or ham on wry.
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Joe Thompson Maps Five Year Plan People
Cultural Synergy Raises Tide for North Adams and Williamstown
By: - Jul 02nd, 2013This time next year the Clark Art Institute will open its Tadao Ando designed campus expansion. Mass MoCA unveils its new Anselm Kiefer building this fall. That adds to its existing Sol LeWitt building. The resultant boost in visitation, as well as more events like the recent Solid Sound Festival, are a part of plans for the expansion and growth of business, tourism and jobs for a region with twice the rate of state unemployment. That's down from seven times the unemployment rate in the early 1990s.
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Behind the Scenes with Wilco at Mass MoCA People
I Was a Solid Sound Rockumentary P.A.
By: - Jul 02nd, 2013During the recent Solid Sound Festival Jack Criddle, who grew up on the Mass MoCA campus as the son of its chief preparator, Richard Criddle, returned to town from his home in Brooklyn. He shares behind the scenes adventures as a part of the production crew of TrixieFilm which documented the three day event which drew just shy of 8,000 participants.
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Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at National Gallery Fine Arts
When Art Danced with Music Through September 2
By: - Jul 02nd, 2013Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music, showcases collaborations with more than 130 original costumes, set designs, paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, photographs, and posters, focused around specific historical performances. It is on view at the National Gallery through September 2.
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The Lion in Winter Roars in Stockbridge Theatre
Treat Williams and Jayne Atkinson Star for BTG
By: - Jul 01st, 2013While thoroughly entertaining, particularly in a lively production by Berkshire Theatre Group, James Goldman's The Lion in Winter is a loose pastiche and confection of grim medieval history. These are meaty roles that great actors like Treat Williams and Jayne Atkinson love to sink their chops into. During the actual Middle Ages, unlike this witty comedy, there wasn't much to laugh about.
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Treat Williams Discusses Lion in Winter Theatre
Wants to Do More Berkshire Theatre
By: - Jun 30th, 2013Since moving to Vermont film and television actor, Treat Williams, is getting more involved with theatre in the Berkshires. We spoke with him following opening night of The Lion in Williams, with Jayne Atkinson, for Berkshire Theatre Group in Stockbridge. With its star billing the play is sure to be a top draw for the 2013 season. He talked about working with South African playwright Athol Fugard.
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MoCA Director Joe Thompson on Wilco Opinion
Debriefing the Third Solid Sound Festival
By: - Jun 29th, 2013On Saturday of the recent, third Wilco Solid Sound Festival at about 7,800 Mass MoCA set a single day attendance record. While it would be possible to sell a few hundred more tickets Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson insists that for the comfort and quality of the event that's just about capacity. With the sale of some 7,200 tickets, about 10% to Berkshire county residents, the event took in but also spent a lot of money. Given ongoing infrastructure development and expenses Thompson said that the museum will be close to breaking even or making a little after the final tally. But it's a ton of work.
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Second Berlin Letter X Bonnie Woods Fine Arts
Artist Compares Boston and Berlin
By: - Jun 29th, 2013When I got to Berlin in April, I looked up the artist Bonnie Woods who was staying here. I’ve known Bonnie for about 30 years—ever since we were both actively involved in the Boston Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art. In recent years she has spent considerable time in Germany, where her family lives.
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Terence Blanchard Returns to Tanglewood Music
Supports New CD Magnetic on Blue Note
By: - Jun 29th, 2013In 2008 Terence Blanchard was a headliner for the now cancelled annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival. His quintet performed with the 34 oiece Tanglewood Jazz Orchestra in his A Tale of God's Will for the Spike Lee HBO documentary When the Levees Broke. He returned to Tanglewood last night with his quintet in a concert of hard bop straight ahead jazz.
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Animal Crackers a Crackup at Williamstown Theatre
Marx Brothers Zany Musical Comedy Soars
By: - Jun 28th, 2013In 2009 Henry Wishcamper adapted and directed the Marx Brothers musical Animal Crackers for the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Now he has restaged it in a lively and thoroughly entertaining production which launches the 59th season of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Through July 13 what's not to like? Enjoy.
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Maria’s European Delights Food
Polish Deli in Pittsfield
By: - Jun 27th, 2013After five years in Great Barrington the Polish deli Maria’s European Delights has relocated to 146 North Street in Pittsfield. Krzysztof "Kris" Sedowski handed me slices of sausage to sample while we discussed the nostalgia of food from the Old Country.
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Anna Myer and Dancers July 13 Dance
Performance at VAPA Theater of Bennington College
By: - Jun 27th, 2013Anna Myer and Dancers, North American Family Institute/Youth Link, and Bennington College present a new iteration of the dance, music, and spoken word pieces “Hoop Suite†and “Hindsight Now†on Saturday, July 13 at 8 p.m. in the VAPA Theater on the Bennington College campus
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Warhol Foundation Settles Suit Fine Arts
Action Against Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company
By: - Jun 26th, 2013The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is pleased to announce that it has concluded a settlement with its insurer, Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company, that fully resolves the Foundation's claims against the insurer for refusing to pay the Foundation's legal costs incurred in defending itself against an antitrust case brought by Joe Simon and a "copy-cat" suit by Susan Shaer.
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Paula Deen’s The Lady and Sons Food
Savannah’s Tarnished Shrine for Grin and Grits
By: - Jun 26th, 2013Paula Deen the Queen of Southern Cuisine has fallen off her media throne. During a three week drive through the south with several days in Savannah we visited her flagship The Lady and Sons. While wildly popular with tourists and fans of her TV cooking shows the food was hardly exceptional.
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