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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Life Is Cabaret My Friends Theatre
At American Repertpory Theatre to Oct. 29
By: - Jul 26th, 2010The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) opens its 2010/11 Season with Kander and Ebb’s CABARET, directed by Steven Bogart, with musical direction by Lance Horne and movement by Steven Mitchell Wright, starring Amanda Palmer as the Emcee. Set and costume design is by David Israel Reynoso,lighting design by Nick Vargelis, and sound design by Clive Goodwin.
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Yasmina Reza’s Art Theatre
Zesty Production at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jul 26th, 2010Since its 1995 Parisian premiere Art by Yasmina Reza has been translated into 30 languages and performed all around he world. On Broadway Reza has won Tonys for Art as well as God of Carnage. Art was presented as a staged reading at the Clark in collaboration with Williamstown Theatre Festival several months ago. It is presented at Barrington Stage Company this summer. There will be a free staged reading at Mass MoCA on August 4. We wonder why this play is so universally admired?
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After the Revolution at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Premiere of Amy Herzog’s Riveting Marxist Play
By: - Jul 23rd, 2010A family of Marxist activists is thrown into turmoil when in 1999 it was revealed that its patriarch was among 349 identified through decoded wartime messages to have been collaborators and spies for the Soviet Union. Emma has founded an organization named for her disgraced grandfather. This is the background for the superb play After the Revolution by Amy Herzog in its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. It is by far the best new play of a rich and diverse Berkshire season.
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Pool Boy at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Musical Premiere Drowns in Pittsfield
By: - Jul 22nd, 2010The much anticipated world premiere of a musical Pool Boy by Nikos Tsakalakos and Janet Allard ended up drowning at Barrington Stage. It is slated for intensive care and an extreme makeover if it hopes to have legs beyond this ambitious, zesty but messy production in Pittsfield. With a lot of work there may yet be life after this D.O.A. debut.
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Ryan Trecartin at LA MoCA Fine Arts
Any Ever July 18 to October 17
By: - Jul 21st, 2010The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Any Ever, the American premiere of artist Ryan Trecartin’s 2007â€"10 body of work, July 18 through October 17, 2010, at MOCA Pacific Design Center. "Ryan Trecartin has invented a new cinematic language that corresponds to the way people experience the Internet. His work has inspired a younger generation of filmmakers, as well as other artists,†comments incoming MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch.
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Aspenlieder Returns in Bad Dates Theatre
Hit Show at Shakespeare & Company to Sept. 12
By: - Jul 21st, 2010Elizabeth Aspenlieder who won an Elliot Norton Award for Best Solo Performanceâ€"returns this summer for a special , limited run in a freshly re-imagined production directed by Eric Tucker (Women of Will this season , Pinter’s Mirror 2009). Haley Walker. The show that set the Berkshires astir in 2009â€"and nettarismatic heroine of Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates , possesses a sharp wit and an unsinkable determination to pursue the promise of new love , even while providing for her daughter.
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The 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music Music
Tanglewood August 12-16
By: - Jul 21st, 2010The 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music, August 12-16, will be the culmination of a season-long celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s renowned summer music academy for young professional musicians, with performances of works by the TMC’s distinguished composition faculty over the course of its history.
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Betty Buckley at the Colonial August 11 Music
Broadway in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 21st, 2010Betty Buckley received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination for her interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
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Bill T. Jones at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Dance
Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray
By: - Jul 20th, 2010Bill T. Jones, who recently won a Tony Award for Best Choreography for his current Broadway hit Fela!, will offer insights on the concept and development of Fondly when he visits Saratoga Springs on Friday, July 23. Jones will present a Personal Talk at 6:30 p.m. at the National Museum of Dance. The Talk is free for ticketholders to the July 28 performance of Fondly; cost for the general public is $5.
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Guardsman at Berkshire Theatre Festival Theatre
Smiles for a Summer Night
By: - Jul 20th, 2010Just for laughs the Berkshire Theatre Festival is presenting Ferenc Molnar's hilarious period comedy The Guardsman. It stars the husband and wife team of Jayne Atkinson and Michael Gill playing a pair of actors. After six months of marriage he hopes to test her in a mock seduction by a smarmy Russian Prince.
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Audra McDonald at Tanglewood Music
Broadway in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 19th, 2010Broadway star and four time Tony winner, Audra McDonald is on the run. It took some 26 hours of travel time, including multiple delays in Mexico City, to reach a scheduled Tanglewood concert. From the stage of sold out Ozawa Hall she announced that she was about to perform for the Obama family. Despite all that jet lag she settled into a stunning and intimate evening of show tunes. The evening was a highlight of what is proving to be a sensational season in the Berkshires.
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Pepon Osorio Drowned in a Glass of Water Fine Arts
North Adams Installation in Former Car Dealership
By: - Jul 18th, 2010The Williams College Museum of Art is collaborating with North Adams and DownStreet. There is a community derived project with the artist, Pepon Osorio. He has created an installation of found objects rotating on a carousel. It will be displayed this summer in an abandoned car dealership. In the fall it will be packed up and reinstalled at WCMA. We discussed the project with WCMA director, Lisa Corrin.
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Michael Tilson Thomas at Tanglewood Music
Mozart and Stravinsky Launch the Weekend
By: - Jul 17th, 2010Stepping in for the ailing James Levine, the sprightly and masterful Michael Tilson Thomas is becoming a familiar presence at Tanglewood. For the second weekend he conducted Stravinsky and Mozart on Friday night and returns on Saturday with more Mahler. On Sunday afternoon Pops features Alec Baldwin and Arlo Guthrie as guest artists. In one of the most anticipated concerts of the season Audra McDonald appears in Ozawa Hall on Sunday evening.
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Damn Yankees at The Mac Haydn Theatre Theatre
Whatever Lola Wants in Chatham, New York
By: - Jul 16th, 2010Yes those Damn Yankees. The perennial favorite of musical theatre will be staged at the Mac Haydn Theatre in Chatham New York from July 22 to August 1. Watch the pinstripes give their all in the pennant race. What fun.
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Six Degrees of Separation at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Introducing Ato Essandoh
By: - Jul 16th, 2010The 1993 film, based on John Guare's 1990 play Six Degrees of Separtation made a star of Will Smith in the role of the hustler and con artist Paul. Based on the stunning and witty performance of Ato Essandoh we again witness an emerging star in the riveting role. Essandoh, who impersonates the son of Sidney Poitier to gain access to the homes and resources of wealthy New Yorkers, is the invaluable glue that holds together an otherwise uneven production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Seeing Essandoh as Paul assures potential bragging rights for years to come.
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Pichet Klunchun Dance Company Unmasked Dance
U.S. Premiere of Chui Chai at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Jul 16th, 2010As a part of its commitment to world dance Jacob’s Pillow presents the U.S. premiere of Chui Chai by Thailand’s Pichet Klunchun Dance Company this week. Performances continue through Sunday, July 18. The hour long performance of a single work started in the slowly stylized manner of traditional Thai dance. It offered a highlight of the Nang Loi (Floating Lady) episode from the Ramayan epic.
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Maureen McGovern: at the Colonial July 23 Music
A Long and Winding Road: The Concert
By: - Jul 14th, 2010This eclectic concert at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, on July 23, is an entertaining and introspective look at the songs that inspired Maureen McGovern before her Academy Award-winning hit “The Morning After.†Her repertoire includes selections of iconoclastic singer-songwriter material including “The Circle Game,†“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?†“The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress,†“Imagine,†“Fire and Rain†and many others.
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John Douglas Thompson Plays a Hunch Theatre
Richard III Reconfigured at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jul 13th, 2010For the past two seasons John Douglas Thompson captivated Berkshire audiences as Othello. He returns as Richard III at Shakespeare & Co. He has received rave reviews for off Broadway appearances this year as The Emperor Jones and with Dianne Wiest in The Forest. Increasingly critics regard Thompson as among the finest Shakespearean actors of his generation. Richard III has been given an extreme makeover in Lenox.
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Beckett's Endgame at Berkshire Theatre Festival Theatre
Trashing Randy Harrison
By: - Jul 12th, 2010A regular of the Berkshire Theatre Festival company, the brilliant Randy Harrison, has ended up in a trash can as Nagg in Samuel Beckett's wrenching and demanding Endgame. This is a flawless production with a stunning cast of Mark Corkins, as Hamm, David Chandler, Clov, and Tanya Dougherty. While one of the best offerings of the season this play is not for the weak and feeble. Consult a physician before seeing this harrowing play.
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Emmy Nominee Dylan Baker People
Thirteen Seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 11th, 2010Dylan Baker has been nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Guest Actor in a Drama. He played a charming villain accused of murdering his wife in The Good Wife. The lawyer Alicia Florrick got him off. In the next episode he was arrested for murdering a mistress during kinky sex. He also appeared this year in several episodes of Ugly Betty and on Broadway in God of Carnage. He took a break from rehearsing Our Town, directed by Nicholas Martin, to discuss a career that includes thirteen seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Opening Night at Tanglewood Music
Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Mahler’s Symphony No.2
By: - Jul 10th, 2010The opening night of Tanglewood saw the transformation of adversity into triumph. There was concern over the announcement that yet again maestro Jame Levine would miss the entire season due to chronic health issues. As the opening night of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor amply demonstrated Michael Tilson Thomas proved to be far more than a substitute. He brought his unique vision and passion to the complex, eclectic and visceral symphony. With this performance the season in Lenox has been launched with magnificent confidence.
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Samuel J. and K. by Mat Smart Theatre
Williamstown Theatre Festival to July 16
By: - Jul 09th, 2010The father of Samuel J. abandoned him when he was four. His mother adopted Samuel K. who was abandoned by his parents in Cameroon when he was three. They are brothers. Or are they is the theme of a provocative play by Mat Smart having its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Rethinking The Severed Ear Fine Arts
Exhibition Curated by Addison Parks a Decade Ago
By: - Jul 08th, 2010The artist Addison Parks has also curated a number of provocative exhibitions and published for his blog Art Deal. A decade ago he curated The Severed Ear for the former Creiger Dane Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. One of the participating artists Martin Mugar reflects on the ideas of that project. As well as work that Parks and his wife Stacey have shown in their Cambridge gallery Bow Street. Mugar also discusses his education and the influences of Yale University where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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Viva Quetzal at the Clark Art Institute Music
Performing on the Lawn July 27
By: - Jul 08th, 2010Viva Quetzal, playing contemporary North American jazz and rock and the indigenous rhythms of Latin America, will perform on the lawn of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Tuesday July 27 at 6:00 pm. The public is invited to bring family, friends, lawn chairs and a picnic to this high-energy, multi-cultural concert. Barbeque fare is available for purchase and museum exhibitions Picasso Looks at Degas and Juan Muñoz are open until 6:00 pm. In the event of rain, the concert will be held in the auditorium. Concert admission is free.
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Pichet Klunchun at Jacob's Pillow Dance
Chui Chai (Transformation) July 14 to 18
By: - Jul 08th, 2010A U.S. premiere from Thailand arrives at Jacob’s Pillow July 14-18 in the Doris Duke Theatre. In the full-length work Chui Chai (Transformation), internationally acclaimed performer and choreographer Pichet Klunchun entwines khon, a form of traditional Thai masked dance drama, with contemporary movement. Intricate costumes and masks and music by Sinnapa Sarasas create a world of ancient beauty and drama that Klunchun juxtaposes with elements of modernity
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