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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Jenny Gersten Part Two Theatre
Discussing Her Second Season at WTF
By: - Aug 13th, 2012In the second part of a dialogue with Jenny Gersten we compared and contrasted her uneven first season with the smooth sailing of her second one. While the first season drew mixed reviews and controversy its ambition proved to be a magnet for major artists wanting to work at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The success of this star studded season is a sanguine harbinger of more to come.
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Paris Commune at ArtsEmerson Theatre
Season Open Septrember 20
By: - Aug 13th, 2012ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage opens with the world premiere of The Civilians’ Paris Commune, a musical play that centers on a two month period in France during the Industrial Revolution, when workers take control of Paris in a popular uprising. Performances take place September 20 – 23, 2013 at The Paramount Center Mainstage (559 Washington Street in Boston’s Theatre District).
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See How They Run at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Vintage British Farce by Philip King
By: - Aug 13th, 2012Barrington Stage ends the Mainstage summer season with a vintage, 1943, British farce See How They Run. From beginning to hilarious end we never stopped laughing. This is a delightfully silly evening of theatre.
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Jenny Gersten Wraps Second Season at WTF Theatre
Nurtured on the Mother's Milk of Producing
By: - Aug 12th, 2012During a post mortem of her second season as artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival we discussed producing as inheriting the family business. Her earliest memories go back to two when she saw Two Gentleman of Verona, at the Public Theatre where her father, Bernard, worked until he was fired by Joe Papp in 1978. As a toddler, her Mom brought her on stage while taking a bow at Jacob's Pillow. In the first of this two part report we discuss a portrait of the artist as a young producer.
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Art Garfunkel Launches Tour and CD at the Clark Music
Poignant Performance Combined Old and New Songs
By: - Aug 12th, 2012Last night at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown the legendary singer/ songwriter, Art Garfunkel launched an 18 city tour that will end on December 1. It supports the issue of a double CD which is a retrospective of his career but includes new material. While he spoke to the audience of "giving my heart to you" he struggled to push a voice that he virtually lost just two years ago. An appreciative audience supported his courage and poetic humanity.
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Dance Heginbotham at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Mark Morris Veteran Formed Company a Year Ago
By: - Aug 11th, 2012After 14 years as a dancer with Mark Morris, a year ago, John Heginbotham formed his own company. It premiered at Jacob's Pillow as a part of the free Inside Out program last year. Now it has been invited on stage in the Dorris Duke Theatre, Based on a fresh, inventive and well received program the company will surely be audience favorites for return Pillow engagements.
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Barrington Stage Company Calendar Theatre
Events August Thorugh October 13
By: - Aug 11th, 2012While the official high season ends on Labor Day Barrington Stage will remain busy through the fall shoulder season. Highlights include the return of Dr. Ruth and the much anticipated production of Lord of the Flies.
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WHADDAHBLOODCLOT!!! by Katori Hall Theatre
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Aug 10th, 2012There are about 60 documented cases of Foreign Language Syndrome. The first occurred in 1941 when a Norwegian woman, during the Nazi occupation, suddenly spoke with a German accent. One may imagine the complications. In Katori Hall's new comedy, as the result of a stroke, a New York society woman wakes up with a Jamaican accent. Oh my.
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Lyric Stage Announces Season Theatre
Mikado Opens September 9
By: - Aug 08th, 2012Lyric Stage in Boston announces its season for 2012-2013. The Mikado opens on September 9 with the perennial music of Gilbert and Sullivan. Another musical, On the Town by Leonard Bernstein closes Lyric on June 8. Sandwiched in between is a heady mix of drama and comedy.
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Chris Botti Scorches a Soaked Tanglewood Music
Richly Varied Two Hour Set in Ozawa Hall
By: - Aug 07th, 2012Just before Chris Botti came on stage for a two hour performace at Ozawa Hall there was a brief but ferocious downpour that had hundreds of fans on the lawn scurrying of shelter. The downpour soaked some fans but failed to dampen spirits of a stunning, eclectic and thoroughly entertaining evening with one of our greatest living artists.
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Edith a Premiere by Kelley Masterson in Stockbridge Theatre
From First Lady to Madam President
By: - Aug 05th, 2012When Woodrow Wilson was recovering from a stroke by denying access to his bedroom and failing to publicly announce his condition, his wife, Edith, for a crucial period of six weeks was virtually President of the United States. This new play by Kelly Masterson conflates 75% fact and 25% fiction to present a benign, revisionist take on a love story with global implications.
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Royal Winnipeg Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Triumphant Return After Fifty Years
By: - Aug 04th, 2012Amazingly, it has been fifty years since the last visit of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet to Jacob's Pillow. The classical ballet company demonstrated its diversity during a two hour program in three segments- In Tandem, Moonlight Sonata, and Carmina Burana. For most audience members it was a highlight of Pillow's 80th season.
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Rethinking Turgenev’s A Month in the Country at Williamstown Theatre
New Concept and Translation Directed by Richard Nelson
By: - Aug 03rd, 2012The mid 1850s play A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev influenced Chekhov, who convinced Stanislavsky to produce it. Literally, lost in translation, the masterpiece of modernism has rarely been produced. Not just for awkward scripts but for a misunderstanding of the main character Natalya. While mostly played by women in their fifties, as Richard Nelson discovered, Turgeney intended her as 29. A radical production with a new translation by Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is the third and final Main Stage presentation of the summer long Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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The North Pool By Rajiv Joseph Theatre
East Coast Premiere at Barrington Stage
By: - Jul 30th, 2012Rajiv Joseph is best know for the Broadway production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. The play, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, starred Robin Williams as the Tiger. Barrington Stage is presenting the East Coast premiere of his two person, one act play The North Pool.
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Bill T. Jones Celebrates John Cage Centennial Dance
Story/ Time at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Jul 29th, 2012Five years ago, Bill T. Jones (born 1952), one of the most successful and celebrated dancers and choreographers of his generation, with more than 100 works created for the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company (founded in 1982), retired from performing. He continues to choreograph for the company. This week he was back on stage for a 2012 work Story/ Time.
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Diva Olympia Dukakis as Prospera in The Tempest Theatre
A Clash of the Titans through August 19
By: - Jul 28th, 2012There are two versions of Shakespeare's enigmatic, evocative, surreal last play on stage at Shakespeare & Company through August 19. There is The Tempest as played for laughs by director Tony Simotes and then the imperious, autocratic Tempest as performed by the legendary Olympia Dukakis. It is a raucous highlight of a stunning season of theatre in the Berkshires.
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Sweet Soubrette in Concert at Dream Away Lodge Music
No Cover Event August 18
By: - Jul 27th, 2012Sweet Soubrette, a melodic, ukulele-powered indie rock band based in NYC, will perform an acoustic concert at Dream Away Lodge in Becket on August 18. WBRS (Brandeis University radio) says: “Sweet Soubrette’s music is modern and sonically diverse…talented instrumentalists and tightly sung melodies make for a really exciting listen.â€
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Aurora and the Gun Delusion Opinion
Responding to the Latest Mass Murder
By: - Jul 27th, 2012Last Friday, we woke up to another tragic shooting where a gunman opened fire in a crowded movie theatre. Twelve people have died, and at least fifty-eight are injured. Already, calls for greater gun regulation to prevent disturbed individuals from accessing guns are being contrasted by calls for more guns so that we can protect ourselves from these individuals.
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Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson in Elephant Man Theatre
Opens on Broadway October 18
By: - Jul 27th, 2012Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson sold out its too brief run at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Now, be still dear heart, the intact production transfers to Broadway and the Booth Theatre in October for a limited run of thirteen weeks. Not that long ago Cooper was declared the sexiest man on the planet. Here amazingly he portrays one of the most deformed of his era the renowned John Merrick. This is the WTF review.
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The Clark’s China Syndrome Fine Arts
Special Exhibitions Through October 21
By: - Jul 26th, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents rare Chinese burial objects in an exclusive exhibition that considers both the discovery and the impact of modern Chinese archaeology, Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China through October 21, 2012. The exhibition features objects recently excavated from sites in the Shanxi and Gansu provinces and never before seen outside of China, including a full-size stone sarcophagus discovered intact in 2004.
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The Mount's Berkshire WordFest 2012 Word
Literati and Glitterati Gather September 14-16
By: - Jul 25th, 2012The Mount announces the launch of its second literary festival, Berkshire WordFest 2012, to be held at Edith Wharton's historic estate in Lenox during the weekend of September 14-16, 2012. The festival will bring nearly twenty nationally acclaimed writers--John Berendt, Adam Gopnik, Heidi Julavits, Matthew Pearl, Francine du Plessix Gray, and poet Mary Jo Salter among them--to The Mount for panels, interviews, and public conversations. The festival will also include many free readings by writers and poets with ties to the Berkshire region.
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Dr. Ruth Returns September 19 to Barrington Stage Theatre
Changes for a New Play by Mark St. Germain
By: - Jul 24th, 2012The premiere of Dr. Ruth, All the Way sold out its 36 performances at Barrington Stage's smaller St. Germain Stage. The theater in the former VFW Hall, now owned by Barrington, was named for the company's resident playwright and author of Dr. Ruth, Mark St. Germain. The one woman show stars Debra Jo Rupp. There will be changes and fine tuning for the run from September 18 through October 7.
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All My Sons at Barrington Stage Theatre
Old Men Send Young Men to War for Profit
By: - Jul 23rd, 2012All My Sons, 1947, by Arthur MIller is on the short list of Great American plays. Currently Barrington Stage, under artistic director, Julianna Boyd is presenting a compelling, meticulously crafted production with a top notch cast. It is hardly what one would call light summer entertainment.
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WAM Theatre Premieres The Old Mezzo Theatre
October Production Paired with Shout Out Loud
By: - Jul 23rd, 2012WAM Theatre is delighted to announce that the beneficiary for the October World Premiere production of Susan Dworkin’s ‘The Old Mezzo’ will be Berkshire based Shout Out Loud Productions, a non-profit run by Jeanet Ingalls that takes action to address sexual trafficking. In keeping with WAM Theatre’s double philanthropic mission, Shout Out Loud will receive up to 25% of the box office proceeds from ‘The Old Mezzo’.
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Far from Heaven Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Gorgeous New Musical Not Far from Off Broadway
By: - Jul 22nd, 2012The world premiere of Far From Heaven, a musical at the Williamstown Theatre Festival through July 29 is truly celestial. It has been adapted with a book by Richard Greenberg, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie based on the 2002 film written and directed by Todd Haynes. The WTF production, directed by Michael Greif featured stunning leading roles by Kelli O'Hara and Brandon Victor Dixon. In 2013 it is headed for New York's Playwrights Horizon. See it now if you can get a ticket.
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