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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Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood Music
Yo Yo Ma’s World Music Project
By: - Aug 09th, 2010Yo Yo Ma formed the Silk Road Ensemble in 1998. The performance last night at Tanglewood was quite different from what we experienced several years ago. There is more of an emphasis on commissioned works and arrangement's of traditional music some going back thousands of years. It was the exotic high point of a rich and diverse Tanglewood season.
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Macbeth at Berkshire Theatre Festival Theatre
The Scottish Play at Warp Speed
By: - Aug 08th, 2010There is a Shakespeare marathon in the Berkshires with concurrent productions at three of the four major theatre companies. The generalist Berkshire Theatre Festival has joined the race with quick and lively Macbeth. It stars C.J. Wilson and Keira Naughton as Lady Macbeth. There are lots of blood and guts on stage in Stockbridge.
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The Last Goodbye a Smash Hit in Williamtown Theatre
With Any Luck Music of Jeff Buckley Broadway Bound
By: - Aug 07th, 2010In the intimate Nikos Stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival the smash hit The Last Goodbye is the hottest and toughest ticket of the summer. It combines the cult rock of the late Jeff Buckley with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Forget West Side Story. That was then and this is now. This is the best new musical and best Romeo and Juliet I have ever seen. Trust me.
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Richard Goode at Tanglewood Music
A Gem Delivered on a Perfect Summer Night
By: - Aug 07th, 2010On Friday night, pianist Richard Goode, with the assistance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, gave the audience at Tanglewood a pitch-perfect performance of Mozart’s jewel-like Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-Flat, K-449. The piece for full orchestra sounds more like a chamber music work, probably because of Mozart’s precise, minute-like composition.
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The Taster by Joan Ackermann Theatre
Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 07th, 2010On the evening when Shakespeare & Company closed its $10 million drive by securing an $800.000 Kresge Foundation challenge grant they premiered a new play. Berkshire resident Joan Ackermann wrote The Taster for specific S&Co actors. It is work that will appeal to the palate of a refined, upscale, Berkshire audience used to dining on pricey entrees. This drama/ comedy morsel that straddles centuries is loaded with theatrical calories. Yum.
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Shakespeare & Company Secures Kresge Grant Theatre
Successful Conclusion of $10 Million Capital Campaign
By: - Aug 06th, 2010Shakespeare & Company has just received an $800,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation. The funds were released after the Company raised an additional $1.5 million bringing its $10 million Capital Campaign , launched at its 30th Anniversary Gala in May 2007, to a successful conclusion. The centerpiece of the Campaign has been the creation of the Bernstein Center for the Performing Arts , a production center including state of the art rehearsal studios , new scene and property shops , and the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.
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Campbell Scott the Stage Manager of WTF’s Our Town People
Actor, Director, Writer Returns to Damages This Season
By: - Aug 06th, 2010This summer Campbell Scott has anchored a star studded cast in Nicholas Martin's production of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town. This is his fifth season of participating in the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has just wrapped shooting the upcoming season of the TV drama series Damages. In an in depth interview Scott discussed wanting to do more writing and directing. As well his productive and challenging life in theatre.
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Tanglewood On Parade Music
Tribute to 30th Season of John Williams
By: - Aug 05th, 2010It was a glorious summer evening for Tanglewood on Parade. The popular annual concert featured a tribute to the music of John Williams. This is his 30th season. Some special friends joined him on stage including Keith Lockhart, Stafan Asbury, Julian Kuerti, Yo Yo Ma and James Taylor. It ended with a big bang of 1812 Overture followed by fireworks.
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Ariadne auf Naxos at Tanglewood Music
Rising Stars in Student Production
By: - Aug 03rd, 2010This season three of the Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows who performed in Ariadne auf Naxos are headed for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Audrey Elizabeth Luna, a scampy temptress and comedienne, as the delicious Zerbinetta makes her Met debut as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote. Emalie Savoy who performed the role of Ariadne/ The Prima Donna joins the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Cecelia Hall, the mezzo-soprano as the Young Composer will make her Met debut as the Second Priestess in Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride.
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Sea Marks by Gardner McKay Theatre
At Shakespeare & Company to September 4
By: - Aug 02nd, 2010It starts as an awkward correspondence between the Irish fisherman Colm (Walton Wilson) and the Welsh born Timothea (Kristin Wold) who works for a publishing house in Liverpool. The pen pals evolve into lovers. She surprises him by editing his love letters into Sea Sonnets a thin volume of verse. This is a charming and heart warming play presented at Shakespeare & Company in rotation through September 4.
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Leonard Nimoy’s Secret Self at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Trekking Spock in North Adams
By: - Aug 01st, 2010There was a mob scene at Mass MoCA as fans awaited the arrival of Leonard Nimoy. The former Mr. Spock from Star Trek was having his first museum level exhibition. Many who volunteered to be photographed as their Secret Selves were on hand for the celebrity event. It was also the weekend of the annual Bang on the Can so MoCA was going gang busters.
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Writers Conference Hosted by The Mount Word
Conjuring the Spirit of Edith Wharton
By: - Jul 31st, 2010While struggling to overcome debt that threatened The Mount with bankruptcy its director, Susan Wissler, is moving forward with programming and development. Recently Edith Wharton's mansion and estate was the site for the first annual Berkshire WordFest at the Mount.
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Berkshire WordFest at the Mount Word
First Annual Event in Lenox
By: - Jul 31st, 2010Edith Wharton's Estate & Gardens in Lenox, Massachusetts held its first annual writer's conference: WORDFEST. It was a rich experience by any measure and had surpassed high expectations at the end, on July 25th. Poets, writers and all who came and supported the event mingled easily and shared of themselves. It was a celebration of the written English language then and now.
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Our Town at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Campbell Scott Anchors Martin’s All Star Cast
By: - Jul 30th, 2010For his final production as artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival Nicholas Martin has put 40 actors on stage including many community members. There is an all star cast starting with the magnificent Campbell Scott as the Stage Manager. Joining him are such WTF regulars as Becky Ann Baker and her husband Dylan Baker, John Rubenstein and Jessica Hecht. An actual Williams Professor, Sam Crane, plays, guess what, a Professor..
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Tony Nominee Jessica Hecht Theatre
In Our Town for 7th Williamstown Season
By: - Jul 29th, 2010It has been a great year for veteran actress Jessica Hecht. In addition to Brighton Beach Memoirs her second Broadway play this season, View from the Bridge, earned her a Tony nomination as Best Actress. She also had a riveting role in an episode of the TV hit The Good Wife. For her 7th season at the Williamstown Theatre Festival she is appearing in Nicholas Martin's all star production of Our Town.
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Wrapped at the Berkshire Museum Fine Arts
Nancy Graves, Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers, Ven Vosiey
By: - Jul 28th, 2010The main event is Wrapped: Search for the Essential Mummy. In an adjoining gallery is a thumbnail Nancy Graves: Journey to North Africa. The elegant and spacious Crane Gallery features a collaboration Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers: Spatial Relationships. The newly launched Wider Window Gallery features artist in residence Ven Vosiey’s Artifact .
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John Oliver at the Colonial Theatre
Standup Guy Appears August 14
By: - Jul 28th, 2010John Oliver has been a writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart since 2006. As a result of his popularity on The Daily Show, Comedy Central asked John to write and star in his own one hour stand-up special, Terrifying Times, which premiered in April 2008 and was subsequently released on DVD. In 2008 John starred in the Mike Myer’s movie, The Love Guru and is currently appearing in a recurring role in the NBC series, Community.
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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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