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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Trash Talk Word
Blockhead's Free Art
By: - Nov 18th, 2016Boswell quoted Dr. Johnson as saying "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." Here is a work of art, absolutely free, to you from me.
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Tanglewood 2017 Front Page
Expanded Role for Andris Nelsons Includes Sharing Film Night
By: - Nov 17th, 2016In his most significant commitment yet to Tanglewood, Andris Nelsons will lead both the opening and closing BSO concerts, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, and Beethoven Symphony No. 9; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Kristine Opolais; an opera gala with Ms. Opolais and Dmitri Hvorostovsky performing excerpts from Simon Boccanegra, La traviata, and Eugene Onegin; the world premiere of John Williams’s Markings with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter; and the first-ever BSO and festival concert performance of the complete Das Rheingold, a tour de force milestone in the history of the festival.
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Last of Adams Word
From Three to One
By: - Nov 16th, 2016Since April months of endless packing. From two homes to one. Loss and gain.
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A Dog Meditates Word
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Mississippi Blues Man Mose Allison Word
Whole Wide World There Was Only One
By: - Nov 16th, 2016Now I can hold you close and I can squeeze you tight And I can make you cry for me both day and night And I can heal the sick and even raise the dead And make you little girls talk out of your head I'm the one, yes, I'm the one I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one they call the seventh son
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Jon Robin Baitz's Vicuna Front Page
World Premiere at Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City
By: - Nov 16th, 2016“Vicuna” is comedy rich in innuendo and roman à clef portrayals. I’ve seen several of Jon Robin Baitz’s plays in the past, but this one is a little different from his usually serious efforts as a dramatist.
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From Silence by Anne Marilyn Lucas Front Page
NY's Theater for the New City
By: - Nov 16th, 2016The brutally honest play From Silence by Anne Marilyn Lucas is based on her observations of second generation Holocaust survivors and their families. The piece centers on a Jewish Holocaust survivor who, as a coping mechanism, has remained silent about her experiences in detention.
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Playwright Lauren Gunderson Takes Action Front Page
An Offer We Cannot Refuse
By: - Nov 15th, 2016Any theatre company, group, or person who wants to do a reading of my feminist political comedy, The Taming, on Inauguration Day 2017 can do so for free, with thanks to Playscripts.
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First Annual Berkies Awards Front Page
Theatre VIPs Jam Mr. Finn's Cabaret
By: - Nov 14th, 2016The Berkshire theatre gilterrati crammed into Mr. Finn's Cabaret for a raucous evening celebrating The First Annual Berkshire Theatre Awards. Seventeen arts journalists voted on 120 nominees in 25 categories chosen from artists in the 75 live theatre productions mounted in Berkshire County and adjacent areas between October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016.
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Building Walls Word
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Crown of Thorns Word
Lament for America
By: - Nov 12th, 2016In a nation ever more divided the lion does not lay down with the lamb.
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After by Michael McKeever Front Page
World Premiere at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center
By: - Nov 12th, 2016“Now what” are the words playwright Michael McKeever wants us to ponder after watching his devastatingly honest, explosive, unflinching and all-too-topical play titled simply “After.”
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The Little Flower of East Orange in Chicago Front Page
Play by Stephen Adly Guirgis at Eclipse Theatre
By: - Nov 10th, 2016Stephen Adly Guirgis opens the veins of family feelings in his plays, with his gritty, piercing dialogue. He writes scenes we usually don’t see in public, scenes that reveal long histories of family abuse that become painful memories. He does this in Between Riverside and Crazy and The Motherfucker with the Hat, He is is a member of New York’s highly regarded LAByrinth Theater Company. Little Flower premiered at LAByrinth in 2008, directed by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Up in Smoke Word
Hail to the Creep
By: - Nov 09th, 2016Say it ain't so Joe. Last night the rural, angry, and uneducated put a foul mouthed, billionaire, racist vulgarian in the Oval Office. Taking with him House and Senate. Brace yourself for four and perhaps eight years of madness and mayhem.
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Sharr White's Annapurna Front Page
Launches CV Repertory Theatre's Season
By: - Nov 08th, 2016The narrative of Sharr White’s play is not its strongest asset. It’s the performances of the actors that win the day. The technical credits at CV REP are always top tier.
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Tony Winner Fun Home Front Page
Touring Company Visits Chicago
By: - Nov 08th, 2016Fun Home, the prize-winning show (five 2015 Tonys including best musical), opened at Chicago's Oriental Theatre last week for a very short run. The play, based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic novel, is a story of growing up trying to figure out yourself and seeing your parents through new eyes as you mature.
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First Berkies Theatre Awards This Sunday Front Page
VIPs to Gather at Mr. Finn's Cabaret in Pittsfield
By: - Nov 08th, 2016Theatre celebrities, from critics to thespians, will gather at 5 pm on Sunday, November 13, 2016 at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret in Pittsfield. With a champagne toast they will celebrate the first, annual Berkshire Theatre Awards AKA 'The Berkies." The 25 winners in a range of categories, many of whom plan to attend, have previously been announced. The suspense will focus on the winner of the Larry Murray humanitarian award named for the critic and founder of the awards.
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Heisenberg by Simon Stephens Front Page
Manhattan Theatre Club Through December 11
By: - Nov 07th, 2016British playwright Simon Stephens and director Mark Brokaw weave an engaging obbligato of nicely nuanced, performances by two terrifically talented stars who know how to draw the audience into their small, compelling story and make it sing. It's currently on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Relativity at TheaterWorks Stars Richard Dreyfuss Front Page
St. Germain Play Asks Can a Great Man Be a Good Man
By: - Nov 07th, 2016While the theories of Albert Einstein ushered in the nuclear age his private life, as examined in the new Mark St. Germain play Relativity, was just as volatile. Although he crafted an eccentric and accessible public persona we learn that he was a misogynist and misanthrope. The drama evokes a hypothetical tug of war between Einstein (Richard Dreyfuss) and an abandoned daughter Margaret (Christa Scott-Reed) who has used deception to visit and confront him.
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Panem et Circences Word
Night Before Crystalnacht
By: - Nov 06th, 2016After months of a slash and burn campaign, the most vile in American history, neighbors are gathering for dips and chips to watch election returns. It is less an end than a beginning of four more years of a nation divided and congressional gridlock.
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Zora Neale Hurston: a Theatrical Biography Front Page
Celebrating the Queen of the Harlem Renaissance
By: - Nov 05th, 2016The "Queen of the Harlem Renaissance" would probably be thrilled with the birthday bash Off-Broadway's New Federal Theatre and Castillo Theatre are throwing in her honor. They're presenting a fresh, dynamic production of the bio-play "Zora Neale Hurston: a Theatrical Biography" through Nov. 20 in Castillo's intimate black box theater.
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The Bottle Tree by Beth Kander Front Page
Premiere at Chicago's Stage Left Theater
By: - Nov 02nd, 2016The bottle tree is a background symbol in Stage Left Theatre’s haunting new play by that name—a world premiere script by Beth Kander—about the U.S. gun culture and its most horrific example, school shootings.
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One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace Front Page
Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company Off Broadway
By: - Nov 02nd, 2016The title of the play, which feels like a cross between Tennessee Williams and Harold Pinter's work, comes from words in a poem by English poet John Donne (1573-1631).
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The Piano Lesson by August Wilson Front Page
Revival at Hartford Stage Company
By: - Oct 31st, 2016In 1987 August Wilson's The Piano Lesson premiered at Yale Rep. It was one of two plays from the ten in the decades spanning Pittsburgh Cycle that won a Pulitzer Prize. It is being revived in a production at Hartford Stage Company. The stunning, vintage, hand crafted upright piano from the original Yale production has been borrowed for this occasion. It is the centerpiece for sibling tension that informs the iconic Wilson drama.
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Pendulum Word
Slush Puppies
By: - Oct 28th, 2016On Thursdays a group of us meet at Sushi House in North Adams to get our fix. There are Margaritas all around. At just five bucks Joy makes the best in the Berkshires.
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