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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Hamilton Word
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Boston Artist John Powell at 73 Front Page
Memorial Exhibition at Howard Yezerski Gallery
By: - Feb 13th, 2020John Powell finished but did not see his final exhibition. He died at 73 just days before the opening of Neon Shadows at Howard Yezerski. Artists and former fellows of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT will gather to pay their respects. He will be celebrated for a career in art, science and technology. That was manifested in large public art projects. Using dramatic lighting he transformed quotidian into sublime. A bridge we traverse every day and hardly notice was transformed into an enormous sculpture with light shaping its form.
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Ballroom at CVREP Front Page
Lively Revival of 1970s Musical
By: - Feb 12th, 2020Ballroom features the music of Billy Goldenberg, with a libretto by Jerome Kass, and the lyrics by multiple Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy award-winning songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, under the direction of Ron Celona. It’s the boldest and most audacious production in CVREP history.
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Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle Front Page
At Yale Rep
By: - Feb 11th, 2020Manahatta, now at the Yale Rep through Saturday, Feb. 15, offers a great deal to think about. It is getting its east coast premiere, having had its initial production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2018. Playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is a lawyer, writer and activist.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2020 Front Page
Audra McDonald in Streetcar Named Desire
By: - Feb 11th, 2020The Williamstown Theatre Festival launches with Streetcar Named Desire starring Audra McDonald on June 30. The season will feature five world premieres.
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Shakespeare & Company 2020 Season Front Page
A Mix of Classic and Contemporary in Lenox
By: - Feb 11th, 2020The 2020 season of Shakespere and Company starts on May 21 with Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell. The small stage production features Annette Miller. King Lear opens at the Tina Packer Playhouse on June 28. Berkies Award winner, director Regge Life returns to anchor the season with Harold Pinter's Betrayal on September 18.
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Labyrinth by Broken Nose Theatre Front Page
By U.K. playwright Beth Steel
By: - Feb 07th, 2020I highly recommend this fast-moving, smart and funny play by U.K. playwright Beth Steel. If you’re not familiar with the early 1980s global economic recession and the Latin American debt crisis, you might want to read up on it before seeing the play.
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Tiny Beautiful Things Front Page
At San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Feb 04th, 2020The structure of Tiny Beautiful Things is comprised of unrelated letters requesting counsel, followed by Sugar’s responses, so the incoming letters lack a narrative arc. However, the themes of human dignity, self-worth, redemption, forgiveness, and especially love, course throughout, resulting in emotional connectedness.
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Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Players Front Page
A New Biography by Bruce Conforth & Gayle Dean Wardlow
By: - Feb 02nd, 2020The King of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson, died in relative obscurity on August 16, 1938. Fifty years later he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when it was founded in 1986. In 1961 Columbia released King of the Delta Blues Players with Volume Two in 1970. The Complete Recordings a two-disc set, released on August 28, 1990, contains almost everything Johnson recorded, with all 29 recordings, and 12 alternate takes.
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The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith Front Page
By Angelo Parra at Center Repertory Company
By: - Feb 02nd, 2020Despite 7,000 attending her funeral, Bessie Smith lay in an unmarked grave for many years, as her ultimately estranged husband pocketed funds donated for her headstone. That was remedied in 1970 with a gift from one Janis Joplin.
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My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Stout Front Page
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway.
By: - Jan 31st, 2020My Name Is Lucy Barton written by Elizabeth Stout and published to a chorus of Hosannas in 2016, is now a one-woman, 2-character play, running through February 29 at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. Adapted from the book by Rona Munro and directed by Richard Eyre, Lucy Barton stars Laura Linney.
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Verböten by House Theatre Front Page
At Chicago's Chopin Theatre
By: - Jan 31st, 2020The old rock trope says that punk music is “three chords and the truth.” That holds true for the fact-based story about a kid punk band from Evanston in the 1980s, which just opened in a world premiere by House Theatre. Verböten is the name of the play and the band.
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Ripcord by David Lindsay-Abaire Front Page
Produced By Altarena Playhouse
By: - Jan 30th, 2020Credit Lindsay-Abaire for building a comedy not just around women, but older women whose motivations are not limited to the sole objective of doting on grandkids. He makes his female protagonists full-bore individuals with zesty personalities who are willing to fight tooth-and-nail for what they want.
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A Doll’s House – Part 2 by Lucas Hnath Front Page
Produced By Palo Alto Player
By: - Jan 28th, 2020Playwrights rarely write sequels. That's the twist of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House – Part 2 . This ersatz Ibsen next chapter has been widely produced from Broadway to regional theatre. Here Cordell reviews a California production.
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Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn Front Page
At Pear Theatre
By: - Jan 28th, 2020Taking Steps offers its own unique spatial conceit, one with considerable charm but that takes a little getting used to. The action occurs on three floors of the dilapidated Victorian house, but those three floors share the same stage space
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Year of the Rat Celebration Front Page
Berkshire International Club at Panda House
By: - Jan 27th, 2020For the past three years the Berkshire International Club has celebrated Chinese New Year. On a Sunday afternoon sixty members enjoyed a banquet at Panda House.
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Gerry Bergstein: Body Politic Front Page
A Monumental Leap at Gallery Naga
By: - Jan 25th, 2020Gerry Bergstein is on the short list of leading Boston artists of his generation. Taking a leap on every level his monumental paintings will be show during February with a bonus day at Gallery Naga. Hood Museum director, John Stomberg, will provide an overview on the theme of Body Politic.
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Sheepdog By Kevin Artigue Front Page
By Shattered Globe Theatre
By: - Jan 25th, 2020Sheepdog, by Kevin Artigue, Shattered Globe Theatre’s new production, crisply directed by Wardell Julius Clark, will have you holding your breath as details of the incident spool out over 90 minutes.
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This Song’s About You Word
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How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl Front Page
Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco
By: - Jan 23rd, 2020Although the playwright’s intent and narrative often lack clarity, the dialog is clever and the situations amusing. In the hands of a fine ensemble of actors, Custom Made Theatre offers a very funny and provocative production of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage.
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The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly Front Page
Chicago's About Face Theatre
By: - Jan 21st, 2020Kendra and Betty are southern women, together for six years, but their relationship is fraying, if not unraveling. As it turns dark, they’re stuck in a boat that won’t move. The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly is About Face Theatre’s latest production, directed by Megan Carney, now on stage at Theater Wit. The gulf, of course, is both literal and symbolic.
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Snow Day Word
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London Assurance by Dion Boucicault Front Page
At Irish Rep Off Broadway
By: - Jan 21st, 2020First produced in Convent Garden in 1841, when Boucicault was 21, London Assurance, is a farcical comedy of manners, this time directed by Charlotte Moore. It is the cleverest and most enjoyable play to open this year.
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Bloomsday by Steven Dietz Front Page
At North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Jan 19th, 2020Steven Dietz was among the five most produced playwrights in America during 2019. And now his latest play “Bloomsday,” is on stage at North Coast Repertory Theatre (NCRT), making its Southern California debut.
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Jo Sandman: The Photographic Work Front Page
Legacy Project at Fitchburg Art Museum
By: - Jan 17th, 2020Jo Sandman: The Photographic Work on view February 8–June 7, 2020 at the Fitchburg Art Museum explores Sandman’s turn to photography in the 1990s.
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