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Charles Giuliano

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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:

  • One Minute Play Word

    Day by Day

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 26th, 2017

    One Minute Play

  • Lovesport by Tony Padilla Front Page

    Pearl McManus Theatre in Paslm Springs

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 24th, 2017

    In award winner Tony Padilla's latest comedy “Lovesport”, now performing on the Pearl McManus Theatre stage at the Palm Springs Woman’s Club, Padilla takes a look at gay marriage from the point of view of one couple who took the marriage plunge and one couple that didn’t.

  • Tech Talk Informs Washburn's 10 out of 12 Front Page

    Tedium of a Play Within a Play's the Thing

    By: Nancy Bishop - Mar 24th, 2017

    At some two hours and forty five minutes Anne Washburn's 10 out of 12 at Chicago's Theatre Wit is a tad too long. But the real time tedium replicates the point of this play which reveals how a play takes its final form through a technical rehearsal. Equity rules limit actors to working for twelve hours with a two hour break for dinner. If you see a lot of theatre this may be a fascinating experience. If not , those looking for an evening of casual entertainment, then caveat emptor.

  • Time Flies Word

    Are We Having Fun

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 23rd, 2017

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  • Let Them Eat Cake Word

    More Fake News

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 20th, 2017

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  • Dorothea Flynn Word

    Lost Now Found

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 20th, 2017

    Dorothea Flynn

  • Brecht's Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Front Page

    Chicago's Trap Door Theatre

    By: Nancy Bishop - Mar 20th, 2017

    The play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, is 105 minutes of fast-paced Brechtian dialogue and gangland-style murders. It is a brutal and not always subtle satire laced with literary and dramatic references, and performed in a highly physical way.

  • Irish Spring Word

    Plowing Nugent Sod

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 20th, 2017

    Irish Spring

  • Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar Front Page

    CV REP Theatre in Rancho Mirage.

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 18th, 2017

    “Disgraced”, staged and insightfully directed by Joanne Gordon, at CV REP, first premiered in 2011 in Chicago, then transferred to New York’s Lincoln Center, then on to Broadway capturing a Pulitzer Prize for Akhtar. The play was the most produced play in America in 2015.

  • Fear Eats Itself Word

    Belly of the Beast

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 18th, 2017

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  • Shamerocks Word

    Blithering Blarney

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 17th, 2017

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  • O'Neill's Ah Wilderness in Pasadena Front Page

    At A Noise Within Theatre

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 17th, 2017

    “Ah, Wilderness”, O’Neill’s paean to the youth he never experienced, is a sweet, nostalgic, coming of age comedy that had the good fortune to land in the capable and caring hands of director Steven Robman, and a cast of exceptional performers.

  • Punctuation Word

    Screw the Rules

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 16th, 2017

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  • Geoff Sobelle's The Object Lesson Front Page

    Lots of Stuff at New York Theater Workshop

    By: Edward Rubin - Mar 15th, 2017

    The one-man-play by and starring Geoff Sobelle is about demented hoarding. Not surptrisinglty it appealed to Ed Rubin, a known packrat, who writes that "I also thought about my 82 boxes in storage and all of the hundreds of objects that inhabit every shelf, table top, and drawer in my apartment, each one harboring past memories that I have collected over the years."

  • Williamstown Theatre Festival Upgrades Front Page

    Jayne Atkinson Cast and Heather Raffo Gets Weissberger New Play Award

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 15th, 2017

    Two-time Tony Award-nominee Jayne Atkinson and Cote de Pablo will appear in Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House; Tony Award-nominee Micah Stock will appear in Jason Kim’s The Model American and Halley Feiffer’s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow; Christopher Livingston, LeRoy McClain and Joniece Abbott-Pratt will perform in Harrison David Rivers’ Where Storms are Born; and Rebecca Henderson will perform in Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow.

  • Corneille’s L’IIlusion Comique Front Page

    Adapted by Tony Kushner for North Coast Rep

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 13th, 2017

    In the current North Coast Repertory Theatre production Tony Kushner translates and adapts 17th century French playwright Pierre Corneille’s “L’IIlusion Comique” into a delicious and superbly acted French soufflé of a comedy/farce called “The Illusion”.

  • Artists As Pinball Wizards Front Page

    Exhibition at the Elmhurst Museum

    By: Nancy Bishop - Mar 11th, 2017

    Kings & Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago sets 16 working vintage pinball machines in several galleries with about 30 pieces of art by the pioneers of 1960s and ‘70s Chicago Imagists: Ed Paschke, Karl Wirsum, Suellen Rocca, Ed Flood, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Christine Ramberg, Roger Brown and Ray Yoshida. The connection, of course, is that the artists were influenced in childhood and adolescence by the art of pinball machines and comic books.

  • Remembering Critic Larry Murray Front Page

    Founded Berkshire Theatre Awards

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 11th, 2017

    After a long illness, on March 10, the widely respected publisher and editor of Berkshire on Stage and Screen, Lawrence “Larry” Murray, passed away. He organized the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association. Last November he rallied to attend the First Annual Bertkshire Theatre Awards. He presented the top award, named for him, to Jullian Boyd of Barrington Stage for community service through theatre.

  • Barrington Adds Bye Bye Birdie Front Page

    Updates to Pittsfield Schedule

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 10th, 2017

    Barrington Stage Company adds a reading of the musical Butterflies, Speech & Debate on the St. Germain Stage, and its annual youth production, Bye Bye Birdie, at the Pittsfield Museum.

  • Nightly Sorbet Word

    Ridiculous Reruns

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 09th, 2017

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  • A Few Good Men at St. Joseph Players Front Page

    Stone's Throw from Yucca Valley Marine Base

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 09th, 2017

    Rebecca Havely has selected the powerful military courtroom drama “A Few Good Men”, written by Academy and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin as her directing choice for 2017. St. Joseph's Players in Yucca Valley, California, is only a stone’s throw away from one of largest Marine bases in the country.

  • Huntington Theatre Company 2017-2018 Front Page

    Extensive Upgrade of Site and Services

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 08th, 2017

    The 36th season will include four plays at the Huntington Avenue Theatre, as well as three plays at the Wimberly Theatre and one special event in the Roberts Studio Theatre, both located in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in the South End.

  • ICA To Lease Expanded Space Front Page

    Two if by Sea in East Boston

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 07th, 2017

    When the Institute of Contemporary Art opened its waterfront home there were awards for the dramatic design by Diller Scofido and Renfro. Immediately, however, it was obvious that with 65,000 square feet, and just its top floor for exhibitions, there was no plan for expansion and growth. For the next five to ten years the ICA is leasing a 15,000 square foot industrial place in East Boston. Visitors will commute by ferry to the seasonal Watershed which opens in the summer of 2018.

  • Iowa's Field of Dreams Front Page

    If Your Build It They Will Come

    By: Susan Cohn - Mar 06th, 2017

    The Ghost Players who emerge from the cornfield in the movie are re-enacted at the movie site by local residents in period White Sox uniforms.

  • O'Neill's Long Day’s Journey into Night Front Page

    Compelling at Geffen Playhouse

    By: Jack Lyons - Mar 04th, 2017

    Geffen’s Artistic Director Randall Arney, took on the challenge of producing O’Neill’s masterpiece. Staged by acclaimed director Jeanie Hackett, this revival of “Long Day’s Journey into Night” features gifted actors: the superb Alfred Molina as James Tyrone , the brilliant Jane Kaczmarek as morphine addicted Mary Tyrone, Stephen Louis Grush as the star-crossed and fated Jamie Tyrone, and Colin Woodell as young Edmund Tyrone (the alter-ego of Eugene O’Neill), a poet/writer battling tuberculosis and alcoholism.

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