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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Annual Steinberg Awards Finalists Front Page
Juried by American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA)
By: - Mar 04th, 2017The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2016.
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Glenn Close Ignites Sunset Boulvard Front Page
Ready For Her Closeup on Broadway
By: - Mar 04th, 2017Glenn Close is the magnet that is filling the house – the musical has already been extended a month – and everything, from her glittering silver and gold lame wardrobe (Anthony Powell), makeup (Charlotte Hayward), wigs (Andrew Simonin), the set (James Noone), and even the other actors in the play who mostly fade into the background when Close is on stage, play second fiddle to her electrifying presence which at times threatens to ignite the theater.
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Tony Winner Fun Home in LA Front Page
National Tour Visits Ahmanson Theatre
By: - Mar 02nd, 2017The national tour production, of 2015 Tony winner Fun Home is now on the stage of The Ahmanson Theatre. It is an eye-opening and somewhat of a ground-breaking production, in that it tells the story of a gay young woman’s sexual awakening in a troubled Pennsylvania family.
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Revival of Zoot Suit at Mark Taper Forum Front Page
75 Years After Its Original Prduction Still Thrills
By: - Mar 02nd, 2017In 1977, playwright/director Luis Valdez, brought his play “Zoot Suit” to Gordon Davidson, the Artistic Director of the Mark Taper Forum with the hope that one of the country’s most prestigious Regional Theatres would produce his controversial story of social injustice and police brutality toward Latino’s in the city of Angels. And he wanted to do it with a cast of mostly Latino performers.
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Berkshires WAM 2017 Season Front Page
Collaborations with Berkshire Theatres
By: - Mar 01st, 2017The Berkshire-based professional theatre company celebrates its eighth year with two Main Stage productions, a thought-provoking series of play readings, and several exciting new collaborations and initiatives 2.017 season explores a broad range of perspectives around issues affecting women and girls.
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The Cut Bridge Word
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10x10 Upstreet in Pittsfield Front Page
Barrington’s 6th New Play Festival
By: - Feb 25th, 2017With the exception of the gravitas of Raghead by Tom Coash the 6th annual 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage was upbeat, lively and often hilarious.
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Annie Baker Adapts Uncle Vanya Front Page
Goodman Theatre Production Directed by Robert Falls
By: - Feb 25th, 2017The truest and most palpably Chekhovian version of Vanya may well be Annie Baker’s new translation/adaptation, which opened this week at the Goodman Theatre, directed by Robert Falls
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Jim Jarmusch and Paterson Front Page
Film's Quest for Poetry
By: - Feb 25th, 2017Jim Jarmusch’s new film “Paterson” – about a poet named Paterson who drives a bus for a living in Paterson, New Jersey – is concerned not simply with poetry and the craft of prosody, but with the very nature of language itself.
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Federal Support for the Arts Under Attack Front Page
Five Boston Museum Directors Express Concern
By: - Feb 24th, 2017Five Boston museum directors have signed a letter of concern over reports that the National Endowment for the Arts is under threat of being abolished, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Under the conservative agenda of the Trump adminsitration this is an attack on the arts in America. Guarding the Trumps in NY, DC and Palm Beach for a week is on a par with endowment support.
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Surfin USA Word
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Tanglewood Launches Massive Upgrade Front Page
$30 Million Project to Open in 2019
By: - Feb 21st, 2017Tanglewood has announced plans for the construction of a new multi-use, multi-season four-building complex designed to support the performance and rehearsal activities of the Tanglewood Music Center and be the focal point of a new initiative, the Tanglewood Learning Institute, offering wide-ranging education and enrichment programs designed to enhance the patron experience.
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Adam Davis Joins Shakespeare & Company Front Page
Appointed as Managing Director.
By: - Feb 21st, 2017Shakespeare & Company announces that Adam Davis, long-time Managing Director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and former Company Manager of the La Jolla Playhouse, has been named as the Company's new Managing Director.
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Waiting for Godot in Mexico Front Page
Beckett Update at Chicago's Tympanic Theatre
By: - Feb 21st, 2017Tympanic Theatre adds another dimension to its new and well-performed production of Waiting for Godot. Director Aaron Mays sets the scene on the Mexican border and casts talented Latino actors to play the woebegone but always-optimistic Vladimir (Christopher Acevedo) and his morose but resilient road-buddy, Estragon (Felipe Carrasco).
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Authentic Bouillabaisse Front Page
Visiting Villefranche-sur-Mer
By: - Feb 20th, 2017Yet again my paella was a hit with our guests. We talked about the expensive key ingredient of saffron. The next time I want to make Bouillabaisse. But I doubt that I can match that first encounter decades ago in the charming cove of Villefranche-sur-Mer.
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By the Bog of Cats in Chicago Front Page
Marina Carr’s 1998 Play at The Artistic Home
By: - Feb 17th, 2017By the Bog of Cats is a bit of Irish Gothic laced with some Greek tragedy and it’s on stage now at The Artistic Home, one of Chicago’s fine storefront theaters, located in the Noble Square neighborhood. Marina Carr’s 1998 play is set in a ghostly bog in the Irish midlands.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2017 Front Page
Million Dollar Quartet and Music Man on Tap
By: - Feb 16th, 2017BTG is expanding its 2017 summer festival offerings, including The Music Man and the Million Dollar Quartet, Arsenic and Old Lace, as well as two productions by playwrights, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo (Zoo story) and David Auburn's Lost Lake.
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2017 Solid Sound Festival Update Front Page
Musical Lineup Set for MASS MoCA June 23-25
By: - Feb 16th, 2017The musical lineup for the 2017 Solid Sound Festival, which takes place June 23-25 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, has been revealed. Let the games begin.
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The Science of Vaccinations Front Page
Scratch and Sniff
By: - Feb 15th, 2017Polio is widely regarded, along with smallpox, as vaccination’s other “unmistakable success,” and in recent years the World Health Organization has pronounced it confined to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks Front Page
Annenberg Theatre, Palm Springs
By: - Feb 15th, 2017Insightfully written by Richard Alfieri, and inventively directed by Larry Raben, “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks”, at the Annenberg Theatre, Palm Springs, stars Loretta Swit as Lily and David Engle as Michael.
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Expressions by Shawn Abramowitz Front Page
At California's Desert Ensemble Theatre
By: - Feb 15th, 2017“Expressions”, marks Shawn Abramowitz’s debut as a playwright, who also directs the powerful drama now performing on the Pearl Mc Manus Stage at the Palm Springs Woman’s Club. He has been singled out for Desert Theatre League honors for Best Actor and Best Supporting actor in “A Number” in 2016, and for “Family Meetings.”
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Straight White Men at Steppenwolf Front Page
Playwright Young Jean Lee Directs in Chicago
By: - Feb 15th, 2017Young Jean Lee’s new play, which she directs at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, presents the existential crisis of being a straight white man, but rejecting its rule-the-world requirements. The play is very smart and funny and the audience laughs throughout.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2017 Front Page
Broadway in the Berkshires
By: - Feb 10th, 2017The Williamstown Theatre Festival 2017 Summer Season, the 63rd Season for the Tony® Award-winning theatre company, will include four world premieres, a new musical, and the first production of a WTF commissioned artist.
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Gloucester's T.S. Eliot Word
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Vote for North Adams Front Page
Contest for $500,000 Grant
By: - Feb 09th, 2017North Adams has bsen selected as one of five finalists for Main Street Season Two. Please help by casting a vote once a day from now through February 16. The prize for the Small Business Revolution contest is $500,000.
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