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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Hong Kong Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
First Visit to the Berkshires
By: - Jul 21st, 2012Now in its 33rd year the Hong Kong Ballet has toured twenty times while this is its first visit to Jacob’s Pillow Dance. The company adheres to mostly Western traditions of classical ballet with primarily Chinese and Asian dancers and a minority of European and North American members. For the past few years the artistic director has been Madeline Onne. She is a former Principal Dancer of the Royal Swedish Ballet. She founded the company 59 Degrees North which performed at Pillow several times. From 2002-2008 she was the Artistic Director of the Royal Swedish Ballet before joining the Hong Kong Ballet in 2009.
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John Douglas Thompson on Iceman Cometh Theatre
Taking Time from Rehearsing Satchmo to Discuss O'Neill
By: - Jul 20th, 2012Currently, John Douglas Thompson is rehearsing the new Terry Teachout play Satchmo at the Waldorf at Shakespeare & Company. He took a break to edit a dialogue about his roles in The Emperor Jones and Iceman Cometh which we saw at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. His views on Eugene O'Neill are a part of a series of dialogues about his roles that started with Othello four years ago at S&Co. This is the first of a two part report.
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ArtsEmerson Announces Additional Shows Theatre
Third Season of Boston Theatre
By: - Jul 20th, 2012After two critically-acclaimed seasons of programming from all over the world, ArtsEmerson announced eight productions for its third theatre season several months ago, with the promise of more. Today, ArtsEmerson announced four additional productions for the 2012-2013 Season, with a promise of still more to come in the “Stay Tuned†roster over the coming months.
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Tod Randolph in Cassandra Speaks Theatre
A Hit for Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jul 19th, 2012Because of her syndicated newspaper columns and radio broadcasts, in 1939, Dorothy Thompson was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1931 she was the first American to interview Adolph Hitler. By 1934 her Cassandra like dispatches led to her being dispelled from Germany. The one woman play by Norman Plotkin, starring Tod Randolph, conveys her in 1943 on the day of her third marriage.
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Turgenev's A Month in the Country at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Radical Plans by Director/Translator Richard Nelson
By: - Jul 18th, 2012Visitors to the final Main Stage production of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, A Month in the Country, August 1 to 19, should expect the unexpected. Director Richard Nelson who worked on a translation of the Turgenev play with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is planning a spare, minimalist, radical production that reflects the revolutionary impact of the Russian masterpiece which was written in 1850.
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Leslie Kritzer at Barrington Stage July 30 Theatre
Kritzer Sings Jule Styne with Vadim Feichtner
By: - Jul 18th, 2012Barrington Stage Company presents the return of Broadway’s Leslie Kritzer in Hello, Gorgeous! Leslie Kritzer Sings Jule Styne, with music director Vadim Feichtner, on Monday, July 30 at 7pm on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street.
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Greylock Arts in Adams Celebrates Five Years Fine Arts
Foremost Alternative Gallery in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 17th, 2012In a storefront on Summer Street in Adams, Ma., formerly a clothing store, five years ago the multi media artists Matt Belanger and Marianne Petit opened the alternative Greylock Arts. This summer they are celebrating with an anniversary exhibition including many of the artists from New York and the Berkshires that have been included in their edgy program. Their alternative, artist run space, is, hands down, the best in the Berkshires.
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Tero Saarinen Company at Jacob’s Pillow with Borrowed Light Dance
Revival of 2004 Collaboration with The Boston Camerata.
By: - Jul 16th, 2012For 71 minutes I got religion while completely absorbed by the Shaker inspired Borrowed Light a collaboration between Tero Saarinen Company and The Boston Camerata. The 2004 work had its 2006 U.S. premiere at Jacob's Pillow and has returned via "popular demand" for Pillow's 80th season. It was a stunning highlight of an anniversary celebration.
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A Class Act at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre
A Sidebar to Chorus Line at the Colonial Theatre
By: - Jul 16th, 2012In 1976 the team of Marvin Hamlish, music and Edward Kleban, lyrics won the 1976 Tony Award for the score of A Chorus Line. Currently that show is a hit for the Colonial Theatre. On the Unicorn Theatre stage of Berkshire Theatre Group is a vest pocket, thrifty production of the musical A Class Act, assembled posthumously, which focuses on the neurotic life and failed ambitions of Kleban. It fleshes out the history of a gifted and enigmatic theatrical genius. The shows are best seen in tandem.
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Jenny Gersten Discusses Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Mid-Semester Report Card of Her Second Season
By: - Jul 14th, 2012This week the Williamstown Theatre Festival opens its second of three plays on the Main Stage. With the second of four now running on the Nikos Stage, artistic director Jenny Gersetn is at the mid point of a seven play season. We asked about her second season as artistic director of WTF? How does she plan a program and manage some 300 individuals on the Williams College campus? She surprised us by saying that it takes "muscles."
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Anne-Sophie Mutter in All Mozart Program Opinion
Participates in 75th Anniversary Tanglewood Gala Concert
By: - Jul 14th, 2012On Wednesday the German born violin virtuoso, Anne-Sophie Mutter, performed in Ozawa Hall accompanied by pianist Lambert Orkis. On Friday she led a baroque orchestra in an all Mozart program. Tonight, she will be a guest among many participating in the Gala 75th Anniversary concert. She has also met with students in the Tanglewood summer program. It was her first Berkshire visit since 1992.
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers Sizzles at WTF Theatre
Jessica Stone Directs Neil Simon Comedy
By: - Jul 13th, 2012In a brilliant romp, a Williamstown Theatre Festival favorite son, Brooks Ashmanskas, has returned in the first ever WTF production of a Neil Simon comedy, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, from the peak of the sexual revolution in 1969. This is also the 8th season for Jessica Stone at WTF and her second time as a director. She made her directorial debut in 2010 with a smash hit of the Steven Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with the twist of an all male cast.
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Roy Lichtenstein Dot.Con Fine Arts
Art Institute of Chicago Through September 3
By: - Jul 12th, 2012Through September 3 this is the first major museum level exhibition of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein since his death in 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago is showing 130 paintings and 30 additional works including drawings and sculptures. From Chicago the exhibition travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Tate Modern and, finally, the Centre Pompidou in Paris in fall 2013.
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The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth Dance
Jacob's Pillow July 11 through 15
By: - Jul 11th, 2012The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth showcases today’s most exceptional male dancers, choreographers, directors and scholars, as they pay homage to the Pillow’s pioneering founder Ted Shawn and his company of Men Dancers in this exclusive program, to be seen only at the Pillow.
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Cast for A Month in the Country at WTF Theatre
Turgenev Play Runs August 1 to 19
By: - Jul 11th, 2012The cast has been announced for the final main stage production of the Williamstown Theatre Festival season. A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev will be directed by Richard Nelson who also worked on a new translation of the Russian drama. It opens on August 1 and continues through August 19.
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Gallic Gala at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Dance
An Evenng at the Moulin Rouge on Bastille Day
By: - Jul 10th, 2012The Belle Époque era comes to life on Saturday, July 14 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s Annual Ballet Gala, “An Evening at the Moulin Rouge.†The popular summer fundraiser, which coincides with “Bastille Day,†will recreate the atmosphere of a Parisian lounge circa 1900, with a champagne and La Fée Absinthe reception, a strolling accordion player, exquisite French cuisine and guests dressed in period attire.
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Bernadette Peters Pops Tanglewood Music
Broadway in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 09th, 2012In one of the best ever Pops programs Keith Lockhart paid tribute to New York composers. Including the Washington D. C. born jazz great Duke Ellington's A Tone Parallel to Harlem. For the second half of the concert he was joined by Broadway legend Bernadette Peters. She performed a number of songs by Stephen Sondheim including two from Follies which she performed this season on Broadway. Awesome.
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Olympia Dukakis in The Tempest at S&Co Theatre
July 19 - August 19 in the Tina Packer Playhouse
By: - Jul 09th, 2012Artistic director Tony Simotes will direct his former teacher, Olympia Dukakis in The Tempest at Shakespeare & Company. The Tempest runs from July 19th through August 19th in S&Co.’s newly renamed Tina Packer Playhouse. There is a 40% discount for Berkshire residents and many other affordable options.
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Art Garfunkel Performs at the Clark August 11 Music
Previews The Singer a 34 Song CD
By: - Jul 09th, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute welcomes legendary singer-songwriter Art Garfunkel in a rare concert appearance on Saturday, August 11, at 8 pm.
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Boffo A Chorus Line at Berkshire Theatre Group Theatre
Through July 21 a Heart Wrenching Barn Burner
By: - Jul 08th, 2012With the deft direction of Eric Hill, and the fabulous choreography of Gerry McIntyre, Berkshire Theatre Group is staging a terrific production of Michael Bennett's ground breaking, 1975 musical , A Chorus Line. This is the thrilling Berkshire summer sensation we've all been waiting for. Don't miss this one.
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Tempus Fugit for Tanglewood 75th Music
Christoph von Dohnányi Conducts Sweltering Opening Night
By: - Jul 07th, 2012It was steamy in the Shed last night for the sweltering launch of the gala, 2012, 75th season of Tanglewood. With Christoph von Dohnányi, a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1952, the orchestra replicated the very first BSO concert that took place on August 5, 1937. A capacity audience enjoyed the all-Beethoven program, opening with the Leonore Overture No. 3, followed by Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, and Symphony No. 5.
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Celebrating La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary Season Theatre
The Etiquette of Death A Community Project
By: - Jul 06th, 2012What better way to celebrate La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary season than to round up a gaggle of actors and writers, assemble a musical play about death, get Ridiculous Theatre legend Everett Quinton and choreographer Julie Atlas Muz, former Miss Coney Island and Miss Exotic World, to co-direct it, hire a 7 piece orchestra led by Jeremy X. Halpern, and return them to the Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa where not a few of them have been treading the boards for decades.
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7th Monarch by Jim Henry in NY Run Theatre
Theatre Row’s Acorn Theatre Through September 9
By: - Jul 06th, 2012Despite 7th Monarch’s familiar storyline, seen all too often on the stage, TV, and at the movies, and a couple quirky disclosures stretched to the outer limits of believability by Chicago based playwright Jim Henry, my eyes and ears, as well as those of my date du jour, were riveted to the stage as we watched, what is something of a who done it and was it done at all, unfold bit by bit.
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Randy Harrison at the Colonial August 20 Theatre
QWAN (Quality Without a Name) presents SWAN!!! and NOTES!!!
By: - Jul 06th, 2012QWAN (Quality Without a Name) presents SWAN!!! and NOTES!!! at Berkshire Theatre Group’s The Colonial Theatre on August 20 at 7:30pm featuring Christian Coulson, Jack Ferver, Jenn Harris, Randy Harrison, Phillip Taratula and Matthew Wilkas
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Bradley Cooper Discusses Elephant Man People
Broadway Bound for Fall 2013
By: - Jul 04th, 2012While in Williamstown this summer Bradley Cooper discussed his Elephant Man production co starring Patricia Clarkson. It proved to be a sold out run and the most sought after ticket of the Berkshire season. Here is what he said about a play that has obsessed him since it was his graduate thesis.
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