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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Close Encounters with Music at the Mahaiwe Music
Great Barrington Season Launches Oct. 20
By: - Aug 30th, 2012Close Encounters With Music introduces grand prize winners of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition and Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in their Berkshire debuts; presents one of the preeminent Baroque ensembles, Tragicomedia, to usher in the holiday season; and adds another notch on its belt of successful commissioning projects with a new work by American composer Robert Beaser, who has written for Glimmerglass and New York City Opera.
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Les 7 doigts de la main at ArtsEmerson Theatre
Returns Sept. 27 to Oct. 7 at Cutler Majestic Theatre
By: - Aug 30th, 2012The third season of acclaimed international theatre programming by ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage continues with what is quickly becoming a beloved Boston tradition - the return of Montreal-based high-energy movement artists Les 7 doigts de la main, with the Boston premiere of their newest show, Sequence 8.
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American Theatre Wing Announces Awards Theatre
2012 National Theatre Company Grants
By: - Aug 29th, 2012The American Theatre Wing has announced the recipients of its 2012 National Theatre Company Grants. This year’s recipients are: Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Somerville, Massachusetts), ArtsWest (Seattle, Washington), Know Theatre of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio), NC Stage Company (Asheville, North Carolina), The New Jersey Repertory Company (Long Branch, New Jersey), CityRep (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), The Rogue Theatre (Tucson, Arizona), The Play Company (New York City, New York), The Theatre @ Boston Court (Pasadena, California), and Upstream Theater (St. Louis, Missouri).
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John Douglas Thompson on Eugene O’Neill: Two Theatre
Reflecting on Playing Brutus Jones and Joe Mott
By: - Aug 28th, 2012Currently John Douglas Thompson is performing a one man show with three characters Satchmo at the Waldorf a work in progress by playwright Terry Teachout. On a Monday break, following a weekend of five performances at Shakespeare & Company, we met to edit the second and final part of a dialogue about performing roles in the plays of Eugene O'Neill. In June we saw him play Joe Mott in the Chicago production of Iceman Cometh at the Goodman Theatre. Some time back we saw him play The Emperor Jones in New York.
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Chick Corea & Gary Burton at Tanglewood Music
Hot House New CD of Standards
By: - Aug 27th, 2012After 40 years of collaborations pianist Chick Corea and vibraphone player Gary Burton are about to release their sixth CD. Hot House is an album of the standards they loved and grew up on. For a nearly sold out gig in Ozawa Hall, with nearly as many outside on the lawn, they played a set of duets followed by one with the Harlem String Quartet.
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Satchmo at the Waldorf at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
John Douglas Thompson Solos in Terry Teachout Play
By: - Aug 25th, 2012In 1964 Louis Armstrong knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts with the hit "Hello Dolly." It was a compelling answer to a New York Times critic who pronounced him washed up. The bug eyed, grimacing, clowning, handkerchief waving Satchmo relaunched a career as the first super star in jazz. . The superb Terry Teachout play, Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, catches him after the gig in his dressing room just months before he died in 1971.
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Met Live in HD Resumes Oct. 13 Music
Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore at the Clark
By: - Aug 24th, 2012The Met: Live in HD returns to the Clark this fall with extraordinary stars, breathtaking music, and visionary interpretations by today’s most celebrated directors and conductors. This Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series features 12 live transmissions in the Clark’s auditorium, beginning October 13 with L’Elisir D’Amore and continuing with Otello (October 27), Tempest (November 10), Clemenza di Tito (December 1), Un Ballo in Maschera (December 8), Aida (December 15), Les Troyens (January 5), Maria Stuarda (January 19), Rigoletto (February 16), Parisfal (March 2), Francesca da Rimini (March 16) and Giulio Cesare(April 27).
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Kenny Rogers at the Colonial Sept. 27 Music
The Gambler To Serende Berkshire Fans
By: - Aug 24th, 2012Kenny Rogers will serenade audiences with country classics and contemporaries at The Colonial Theatre on September 27 at 8pm. Rogers' Greatest Hits album has sold over 24 million copies worldwide to date. He is the Recording Industry Association of America's eighth best selling male artist of all time with one Diamond album, 19 Platinum albums and 31 Gold albums.
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39 Steps at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Hichcock Inspired Drama Sept. 22 to Nov. 4
By: - Aug 24th, 2012An ingenious thriller, the ultimate murder mystery, The 39 Steps has it all. Shakespeare & Company opens the 2012-2013 Fall & Winter season with this hilarious adaptation of John Buchan’s novel, which also draws inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film. Featuring a seasoned ensemble including Elizabeth Aspenlieder (Bad Dates), Jason Asprey (Parasite Drag), David Joseph (The Tempest), and Josh Aaron McCabe (Hound of the Baskervilles), The 39 Steps offers an intriguing, sidesplitting evening or afternoon at the theatre. The 39 Steps runs from September 22 through November 4 in S&Co.’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.
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Homer’s Illiad at La Jolla Playhouse Theatre
A Spellbinding Triumph!
By: - Aug 22nd, 2012The La Jolla Playhouse (LJP) was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. A remarkable play based on Homer’s ancient epic “The Illiad†has just opened. The Playhouse has created twenty-two productions over the years that have transferred to Broadway, earning thirty-five Tony Awards in the process. In the last few years their transfer productions have captured four Best Musical or Best Play Tony Awards; the last in 2008 with “Memphis.â€
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Marsalis and McBride Ignite Ozawa Hall Music
Historic Return of Jazz Masters to Tanglewood
By: - Aug 21st, 2012Both nine time Grammy winner, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis leading his Quintet, and renowned bass player Christian McBride with a trio, commented warmly on the honor of returning to Tanglewood. But, for both, not in many years. The evening that ended at 11 PM closed in a jam session with all of the musicians trading riffs.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Drew 41,000 Theatre
58Th Season Closes for Renowned Festival
By: - Aug 20th, 2012Williamstown Theatre Festival supported the Berkshires community by bringing nearly 41,000 audience members from 44 states and 6 countries while they attended the work of 401 members of the WTF Company including staff, apprentices, and artists!
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Joffrey Ballet at Jacob's Pillow Dance
Sold Out Event Ends Season
By: - Aug 20th, 2012The Joffrey Ballet, one of America’s pioneering ballet companies of the 20th century, makes a rare East Coast appearance to conclude the Jacob’s Pillow 80th Anniversary Season August 22–26. The Joffrey Ballet returns for the first time since its high-profile appearances at the Pillow in the 1950s and 60s, presenting an impressive program that features Taiwanese-American choreographer Edwaard Liang’s Age of Innocence, Russian choreographer Yuri Possokhov’s Bells, and the world premiere of Son of Chamber Symphony by Stanton Welch, Artistic Director of Houston Ballet.
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Saratoga: A Day At The Races Word
And Behind the Scenes
By: - Aug 19th, 2012We spent a fabulous day at the Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, New York, with our guide Don George, who has lived half of his life with horses as owner and trainer. 50 plus photos accompany the article, a visual story.
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Brace Yourself by David Epstein Theatre
World Premiere for Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Aug 19th, 2012The Berkshire Theatre Group is presenting the world premiere of Brace Yourself a family comedy set on Fire Island by David Epstein. In the face of an approaching hurricane Sunny (Jill Eikenberry) is planning the mega wedding that her daughter Nina (Tara Franklin) really doesn't want. While the comedy delighted the audience I found it as breezy as that storm that rode out to sea.
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Dance in August - Berlin, Germany Dance
Tanz im August, 10 – 25, 2012
By: - Aug 18th, 2012BFA welcomes a new contributor, Dr. Angelika Jansen, who is reporting here about a current Dance Festival, “Dance in August,†from Berlin, now in its 24th year. Various cultural organizations are sponsoring the performances all over the city. The guiding theme is based on the relationship of language and movement in the digital age.
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Compagnie Kafig at Jacobs Pillow Dance Dance
French Choreographer Mourad Merzouki and Brazilian Dancers
By: - Aug 18th, 2012Last night Compagnie Kafig blew the roof off of the Ted Shawn Theatre in their second visit to Jacob’s Pillow Dance since 2001. The French choreographer based in Lyon, Mourad Merzouki, has worked with eleven Brazilian dancers to create a compelling blend of indigenous dance and high cultures. The audience was thrilled and astonished.
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Boston Artists Addison Parks and Jim Falck Fine Arts
Reflecting On Optical Origins
By: - Aug 17th, 2012I can think of two artists who are presently painting in the Boston area whose art radiates a gracious interest in the tradition of painting Jim Falck and Addison Parks. For them the tradition is the period of the beginning of the 20thc: The world of Matisse and Picasso which could be summed up as the pushing of paint with the dynamics of color and figure ground toward the simplicity of the written word.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Film Love Never Dies Film
Sequel To Phantom of the Opera
By: - Aug 17th, 2012Andrew Lloyd Webber has struggled with a sequel to his mega hit Phantom of the Opera. It has arrived in movie theatres in limited release as Love Never Dies. In the sequel, the creative team has the Phantom escaping the burning the Paris Opera House and has him resurfacing ten years later in Coney Island, New York where he begins anew his obsession of possessing the beautiful Christine Daae. The story has added new characters for its American setting, as well.
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Ebene Quartet at Ozawa Hall Music
Tanglewood Rethinks Jazz Programming
By: - Aug 17th, 2012Last night in Ozawa Hall the French Ebene Quartet offered a divided program that included two works by Mozart and Tchakovsky followed by a jazz set. It is a part of he overhaul of jazz programming at Tanglewood. On Monday, August 20 Wynton Marsalis and Christian McBride are featured. With Chick Corea and Gary Burton slated for Sunday, August 26.
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Bradley Cooper's Elephant Man Theatre
Broadway for the Fall 2014
By: - Aug 17th, 2012During a film premiere in Bradley Cooper was heard to say “We’re going to try to do it on Broadway next fall. We’re going to try to nail it down and do a limited run.†That was told to someone who told someone. It went viral on Facebook. That was originally slated for 2013. Now it has been moved forward to Fall 2014. The play was produced by Williamstown Theatre Festival under artistic director Jenny Gersten who has resigned but has programmed the 2014 season.
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God of Carnage at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre
Yasmina Reza Comedy in Hilarious Production
By: - Aug 16th, 2012Our California based theatre correspondent, Jack Lyons, compares the mid career Yasmina Reza to the master Neil Simon. Her Broadway hit is having a successful production at The Old Globe. He writes that " This quartette of performers doesn’t have to take a back seat to any ensemble that has previously performed the play."
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Alfred Molina in Red at Mark Taper Forum Theatre
Tony Winning Play Transfers to LA
By: - Aug 16th, 2012We welcome California based theatre critic, Jack Lyons, as a contributor to Berkshire Fine Arts. He reposts this report from Desert Local News on Alfred Molina who initiated the role of Mark Rothko in "Red" on Broadway. The play won a Tony Award and has been widely staged by regional theaters. This production at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles is notable for featuring the phenomenal Molina in a stunning performance.
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Bourne Legacy Reboots Ludlum Series Film
Three and Out or Four is a Bore
By: - Aug 15th, 2012It has been a decade since Matt Damon launched the Bourne franchise. That's a lifetime for an action hero. When Damon opted not to return to the role without director Paul Greengrass that left Universal Studios in a quandary. The Bourne series had been a cash cow. The studio spent $130 million in a relaunch with a parallel story and new lead in Jeremy Renner with Bourne writer Tony Gilroy elevated to director. It opened with a $40 million weekend laving $90 million to make its nut. Based on mixed reviews and tepid word of mouth that may not happen.
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Shakespeare & Company Reports Boffo Box Office Theatre
Sales Up 23% From This Time Last Year
By: - Aug 14th, 2012As Shakespeare & Company continues to celebrate its 35th Season of "Rebellion and Revolution" in the Berkshires, Artistic Director Tony Simotes and Managing Director Nicholas J. Puma, Jr. are pleased to announce that on Monday, August 6, the Company surpassed $1 million in ticket sales for the 2012-2013 performance season, the earliest date the Company has reached that figure in its 35 year history. This feat also puts the Company 22.5% ahead of its box office totals from last year’s performance season at this time.
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