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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Bridges of Madison County Front Page
Produced by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Apr 11th, 2018“You could have driven into someone else’s driveway.” These words summarize not only the randomness of events that leads to a torrid but compassionate love affair in Bridges of Madison County, but to life itself. Under Robert Kelley’s direction, it is extremely well crafted schmaltz with excellent production values that should appeal to a broad audience.
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Timon of Athens at Cutting Ball Theatre Front Page
A Rarely Performed Shakespeare Play
By: - Apr 08th, 2018Timon of Athens ranks as one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays. While the dialogue is definitely Shakespearean, Timon lacks the popular quotes and hooks of the greater plays – no “pound of flesh” or “out damned spot” or “lean and hungry look” or “slings and arrows.”
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Motherhood Out Loud Front Page
Produced by Dezart Performs,
By: - Apr 07th, 2018Under the smart and crisp direction of Artistic Director/Actor Michael Shaw, “Motherhood Out Loud” brings insights and revelations to the males in the audience and smiles and a multitude of laugh-out-loud- moments from the ladies in the audiences; be they mothers or not.
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A.R. Gurney's The Cocktail Hour Front Page
Directed by David Youse at the Annenberg Theatre
By: - Apr 07th, 2018A.R. Gurney's “The Cocktail Hour”, is a semi-autobiographical comedy that offers a peek into the world of one upper-crust waspish family as they engage in their nightly ritual – the cocktail get together before dinner.
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Exploring Idyllwild California Front Page
River Deep Mountain High
By: - Apr 07th, 2018It’s not unusual to spot a herd of colorful deer right in the center of Idyllwild, the famously art-hearted small town (pop. 3,874 year-round) in the mountains (elevation 5,413) above Palm Springs. Not your ordinary deer, mind you, but 22 fabulously painted aluminum bucks, does and fawns, each decorated to reflect a part of Idyllwild’s history.
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Yo Yo Word
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Chicago Theatre Critic Nancy Bishop Front Page
Sharing a Life in the Arts
By: - Apr 06th, 2018We met Chicago theatre critic Nancy Bishop during a conference of American Theatre Critics. In the past few years she has covered theatre for us. This is an interview posted to the website she edits Third Coast Review.
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Berkshire Museum Decision Handed Down Front Page
Green Light to Sell Treasures and Gut the Building
By: - Apr 05th, 2018Pittsfield used to have a small, charming, eclectic regional museum. As of today that's no longer true.
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Renowned Boston Arts Critic David Bonetti Front Page
Found Listening to Classical Music
By: - Apr 05th, 2018A Berkshire Fine Arts contributor, the renowned arts critic, David Bonetti, was found dead in his Brookline, Mass. apartment while listening to classical music. His writing career started with Art New England and the Boston Phoenix. He joined the San Francisco Chronicle and then St. Louis Post Dispatch. After that he retired writing the occasional feature on the fine arts. In his final years he wrote on opera for this site. He was widely regarded as one of the best critics of his generation.
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Traditional Kegel's Inn Food
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The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe Front Page
At Marin Theatre Company
By: - Apr 03rd, 2018In The Wolves, Sarah DeLappe has written a play about a group of high school girls on a soccer league team that can satisfy theater goers of many ilks. It triggers waves of laughter and perhaps some amazement and embarrassment to those who haven’t peeked behind the curtains of young girls’ social behavior.
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Brecht's Round Heads and Pointed Heads Front Page
At Chicago's Red Tape Theatre
By: - Apr 03rd, 2018Is Bertolt Brecht the playwright for the Trump era? We will argue that he should be so designated. Round Heads is more a pageant than a play; there are few plot intricacies and little character development.
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Iron Shoes a World Premiere Front Page
Shotgun Players and Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble
By: - Apr 01st, 2018The story lines of Iron Shoes are simple and somewhat predictable with feminist tropes. However, they are delivered with great enthusiasm and charm and provide delightful entertainment as good fairy tales should.
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Three Tall Women By Edward Albee Front Page
On Broadway with Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill
By: - Apr 01st, 2018It’s only a few months before the 26th anniversary of the first American appearance of Edward Albee’s masterpiece, Three Tall Women, yet we’ve seen surprisingly few revivals. Certainly those who love Albee’s plays can rejoice at this masterful new version with the legendary actress Glenda Jackson.
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Kelley Faulkner in Always Patsy Cline Front Page
Juke Box Musical at Milwaukee Rep
By: - Apr 01st, 2018After two near fatal car crashes Patsy Cline confided in friends that she sensed her number was up. She drew up a will on TWA stationary and gave away personal possessions. That was not unusual as she was notably generous to family, friends and emerging women performers. A month later, at 30, she was dead in a plane crash. At Milwaukeee Rep in the two hander Always Patsy Cline we had a vivid evening of her unique and stunning music.
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hang by Debbie Tucker Reed Front Page
At Chicago's Remy Bumppo
By: - Mar 31st, 2018We sit through 60 minutes of ambiguity and tension—about what? When "hang" by DebbieTucker Reed finally reveals (almost reveals) its essential point in the final 25 minutes, we are caught up in the conversation among three people in a small room. It is devastating–and maddening. It is the final production in Remy Bumppo’s 21st season for which the theme is “21: Truth Be Told.”
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One House Over at Milwaukee Rep Front Page
World Première by Catherine Trieschmann
By: - Mar 31st, 2018In a world premiere, One House Over, by Catherine Trieschman, an undocumented Mexican couple are hired as live in care providers for a divorced woman and her elderly father. There are comic elements in this tragedy of living under the constant threat of deportation. Camila and Rafael have lived in the States all of their adult lives but she longs to go home to the family she has never known.
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The Effect by Lucy Prebble Front Page
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Mar 30th, 2018The Effect is a penetrating look at research practice as realized through the vivid experiences of real people who may unwittingly subvert the process of unveiling truth. The veteran cast sizzles – Joe Estlack and Ayelet Firstenberg as the subjects and Susi Damilano and Robert Parsons as the researchers.
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In the Studio with Rick Harlow Front Page
Eclipse Mill Gallery Exhibition Opens May 1
By: - Mar 29th, 2018The landscape, particularly as inspired by visionary experiences with the indigenous people of Colombia, have long been key to the large paintings of Rick Harlow. In the past couple of years, taking off from the radical technique of Jackson Pollock, nature has been a more subliminal signifier in dripped and spattered abstract paintings. During a studio visit we discussed the dozen paintings to be included in "Landscape of Energy" at the Eclipse Mill Gallery. It will be his first Berkshire solo show.
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Cowboy vs. Samurai by Michael Golamco Front Page
Produced by Pear Theatre
By: - Mar 29th, 2018In Michael Golamco’s Cowboy vs. Samurai, Travis replaces Cyrano (de Bergerac), and being Asian replaces suffering from an imposing proboscis. But there is more than just the romancing to this clever play. Pear Theatre’s mounting of this production is both highly entertaining and touching. It is also full of jabbing reminders that much work is yet to be done on the discrimination front.
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Father Comes Home from the Wars – Parts 1, 2 & 3 Front Page
Pulitzer Winner Suzan-Lori Parks's Play at Yale Rep
By: - Mar 29th, 2018Suzan-Lori Parks has woven a story of a slave during the Civil War and the Greek Odyssey into a compelling story. She is well known to Connecticut theater goers. Several of her plays have been staged at Yale Rep, including the Pulitzer-prize winning Topdog/Underdog, The American Play and Venus.
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Meet Me in Milwaukee Front Page
Intersections Summit Addresses Social Justice
By: - Mar 27th, 2018From March 23 to 25 Milwaukee Repertorty Theatre hosted a conference Intersections Summit. It was convened to address equity, identity and inclusion through diversity and community outreach. In a letter to ATCA president, Bill Hirschman, managing director, Chad Bauman, who hosted us said in part "All in all, nearly 200 theater professionals from 80+ organizations from 30+ states attended including ATCA, TCG, funders such as the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and journalists from media outlets such as The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune. More than 50 engagement leaders presented sessions and several of which were live streamed via our Facebook page as well as Howlround."
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Through the Elevated Line by Novid Parsi Front Page
Carin Silkaitis Directs a Chicago World Premiere
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Through the Elevated Line is made up of a series of sometimes-bumpy scenes, running about 2.25 hours with one intermission. The direction seems uneven too, with some characters shouting when it doesn’t seem called for. Razi is a sympathetic character despite getting into trouble both at home in Iran and in Chicago. His relationship with his sister is sweet and realistic.
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You for Me for You by Mia Chung Front Page
At Chicago's Sideshow Theatre Company
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Mia Chung’s other plays include Catch as Catch Can and This Exquisite Corpse. You for Me for You premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London; its first U.S. production was in 2012 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC. Chung is a graduate of Brown University with an MFA in playwriting.
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The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia? Front Page
At CV REP in Rancho Mirage California
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Edward Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, debuted his highly controversial play “The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia?” on Broadway in 2002. It went on to garner a Tony Award for Best Play, A Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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