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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Clybourne Park at Phoenix Theatre Theatre
Indianapolis Production of Ubiquitous Play
By: - Apr 22nd, 2013It seems the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning drama Clybourne Park is being produced in ever city, town and village in America. Our Indy correspondent, Melissa Hall, reviews the staging at Phoenix Theatre which runs through May 5.
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Outer Critics Circle Theatre
2012-2013 Award Nominations
By: - Apr 22nd, 2013Handicapping the theatre awards season. Gathering the most nominations were: 11 – Pippin; 9 – Kinky Boots; 8 – Chaplin: The Musical, Cinderella; 6- Golden Boy, The Nance; 5- Dogfight, Matilda the Musical; 4- Here Lies Love, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Trip to Bountiful, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; 3- Bad Jews, Hands on a Hardbody, The Whale.
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Bascom Lodge Celebrates its 75th Anniversary Travel
Events from June 1 through October 20
By: - Apr 22nd, 2013In celebration of its 75th anniversary this year, Bascom Lodge, the iconic Berkshire landmark at the summit of Mount Greylock, has planned a series of special events and programs related to the rich history of the Lodge, the mountain, the 1930s, and local history and folklore.
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Setting the Stage for Another Halo Lost Fine Arts
Early 20th C. Modernism, Surrealism Challenge Established Art Protocols
By: - Apr 22nd, 2013Critic and art historian Richard Friswell focuses on "le spleen le Paris: petits poèms en prose" (1863) as the basis for an essay on modernism and surrealism. He states that "When Baudelaire’s poet abandoned his halo in the mire of a Paris street, he did more than disclaim the mantle of adoration affixed to those, like him, who had gone before ; he traded the sacred for the profane, embracing the intimate, familiar surroundings of a brothel in favor of the distant accolades of countless anonymous strangers."
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Atlantic Spice Food
Cape Cod’s Culinary Mecca
By: - Apr 21st, 2013No trip to lower Cape Cod is complete without a visit to the deliciously fragrant Atlantic Spice Co.. We talked with the owner, Eleanora, who with her husband Mark Irving, established the wholesale/ retail business in North Truro twenty years ago.
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Provincetown Theater 2013 Theatre
Schedule for Season Through December 22
By: - Apr 20th, 2013The Provincetown Theater underwent extensive renovation this past winter. It has just launched its 10th season which runs through December 22. After God of Carnage through April 28 is the World Premiere of a brand new musical by Zoë Lewis "ACROSS THE POND" through June 9. Then Pornocchio, The Provincetown International Film Festival, The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, Payomet Festival of Family Theater & Circus Arts for Children, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch, Mildred Fierce, and other delights.
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Brian Jewett’s Unique Baskets Design
Warp and Woof
By: - Apr 20th, 2013This past winter Brian Jewett worked on several new basket designs using plastic ties. Before shipping them to Snyderman-Works Gallery in Philadelphia he sent images to friends and collectors. He created an earlier version of the designs as a chandelier above our dining room table.
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God of Carnage at Provincetown Theater Theatre
Boys Will Be Boys
By: - Apr 20th, 2013Now in its tenth year the Provincetown Theater has launched the 2013 season with a production of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage. The gloves come off and tulips fly in the directorial debut of Brian Carlson. With a few caveats this is a hilarious evening of over the top mayhem.
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Steven Pasquale In Bridges of Madison Country Theatre
Updates for Williamstown Theatre festival
By: - Apr 18th, 2013Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten has announced that Festival veteran Steven Pasquale will play ‘Robert Kincaid’ in this summer’s World Premiere of The Bridges of Madison County. As previously announced, the new musical, which runs on the Main Stage from August 1 – 18, 2013, features a book by Marsha Norman, music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, and direction by Bartlett Sher.
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Roadkill Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Theatre
Part of World’s Stage Series May 11 to 26
By: - Apr 18th, 2013Roadkill comes to Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in the midst of a state-wide public awareness campaign aimed at shifting law enforcement's attention to sex traffickers and people who buy sex, while proposing a network of support for survivors of the sex trade.
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Joan Rivers at the Colonial Theatre Theatre
Stand Up on May 10
By: - Apr 18th, 2013Legendary comedian, Joan Rivers, will perform her world renowned stand up at The Colonial Theatre on May 10 at 8pm with opener Brad Zimmerman. Audience members are invited to walk the red carpet before the show and stay after to see Tom Judson sing and play the piano in The Garage.
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American Buffalo at LA's Geffen Playhouse Theatre
Machine Gun Stacatto of Classic Mamet Play
By: - Apr 17th, 2013Enough cannot be said of the splendid ensemble cast of “American Buffaloâ€. They grab Mamet’s absurd black comedy story and elevate it to a gritty, but engrossing evening of theatre. In Randall Arney’s production after one peels away all of the f-bombs, we are left with a gritty study of three American men who are unable to understand their role in a society, which views them as losers and permanent bottom-feeders.
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Ragtime at LA's The Kentwood Players Theatre
Community Theatre Now in 63rd Year
By: - Apr 17th, 2013The musical Ragtime is brilliantly directed by Susan Goldman Weisbarth, and, thanks to her musical director and creative cohort Bill Wolfe, this impressive production just soars with 43 voices and performers on Kentwood’s somewhat undersized stage (the theatre seats 115 patrons). But oh what magic doth appear when good source material, creative talent and inspired direction abound.
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Barrington Stage Company 2013 Theatre
An Abundance of Riches
By: - Apr 16th, 2013Here is the complete and final rundown, at least for now, of shows, cabaret, benefits and events for the 2013 season of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass. The fun begins on May 22 and winds down on October 13.
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Tribes by Nina Raines Theatre
New Comedy/Drama at LA's Mark Taper Forum
By: - Apr 16th, 2013The new Nina Raines comedy/ drama raises some interesting communication issues concerning the Deaf community. “Tribesâ€, currently onstage at the Mark Taper Forum in LA, is insightfully directed by David Cromer and brings into much sharper focus the issue and the debate of how one copes within a family of hearing parents along with hearing and non-hearing siblings.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Indianapolis Theatre
Ends The Indiana Repertory Theatre Season
By: - Apr 16th, 2013.The Indiana Repertory Theatre is closing its season with the classic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Young lovers’ blossoming relationships run amiss when they cross paths with a forest full of fairies led by the warring King and Queen of the fairies, regally played by Ryan Artzberger and Jennifer Johansen.
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Berkshire Theatre Group Adds Shows Theatre
Peter Pan, Just So Stories and Hunter Bell,
By: - Apr 15th, 2013Berkshire Theatre Group announces three additions to its 85th summer season: the 8th Annual Children's Theatre Production, Peter Pan, at The Colonial Theatre, Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling, at The Neil Ellenoff Stage and a special writers workshop with Hunter Bell, of the Tony nominated show, [title of show]
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Matisse's La Couleur découpée Fine Arts
Musée Matisse at Le Cateau-Cambresis to June 9
By: - Apr 13th, 2013In the Musée Matisse, located in the northern French town Le Cateau-Cambresis, birthplace of the artist, is a wonderful exhibition on the topic of "cut gouaches." The Belgian critic Roger D’Hondt states that the late works changed the canon of modernism. . During his last 20 years of life, from 1936 to 1954, Matisse and his staff painted hundreds of sheets with gouache that looked like monochrome paintings on paper.
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American Repertory Theatre Launches Musical Theatre
Witness Uganda, created by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews
By: - Apr 12th, 2013The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University will present the world premiere of the musical Witness Uganda, created by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews, and directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus. The production will begin performances at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge in February of 2014.
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Last Goodbye Says Hello to San Diego Theatre
Workshopped at Williamstown Theater Festival
By: - Apr 12th, 2013During the 2010 season a musical that conflated Romeo and Juliet with the music of the gifted Jeff Buckley, who died tragically young, The Last Goodbye was workshopped at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Now it is slated to open the season for The Old Globe in San Diego. There are plans to move on from there. At WTF we interviewed the creative team and Buckely's Mom, Mary Guibert.
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A Palo Seco Flamenco Company Dance
Theatre 80 Saint Marks May 17 to 19
By: - Apr 12th, 2013With a new program of innovative and edgy repertoire, Rebeca Tomás will bring her A Palo Seco Flamenco Company back to Theatre 80 Saint Marks May 17 to 19 in a new production, "Cinco Por Cinco." Tomás, a fierce and feminine NY-based Flamenco artist, will direct her company of five dancers, two singers and three musicians.
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ArtsEmerson Announces 2013-2014 Program Theatre
Fourth Season Starts September 17
By: - Apr 12th, 2013ArtsEmerson announces the first half of its fourth theatre season, beginning in the fall of 2013. This announcement covers productions into January of 2014, with more winter/spring productions to be announced later. Tickets for these productions go on sale to ArtsEmerson members on April 12, and to the general public on May 3.
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Indiana Repertory Theatre Theatre
Announces 2013/2014 Season
By: - Apr 11th, 2013The Indiana Repertory Theatre will launch its season with Arthur Miller's The Crucible. This will be followed by eight productions for a full and diverse program.
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A Doll's House at The Old Globe Theatre
Ibsen Drama in San Diego Through April 21
By: - Apr 11th, 2013The Old Globe production of “A Doll’s House†that opened at the Sheryl and Harvey White theatre on March 23rd is intelligently, sensitively, and seamlessly directed by Kirsten Brandt who brings a wealth of Ibsen directing credits to the production.
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Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History Fine Arts
On View at Clark Art Institute to September 8
By: - Apr 11th, 2013On view through September 8, 2013, Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History showcases some sixty oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings, as well as approximately 120 rarely seen wood engravings. Drawing upon the resources of the Clark’s own holdings of nearly 250 works by Homer (dating from 1857 to 1904), the exhibition provides a variety of distinctive perspectives on this important American artist.
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