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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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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A Man Called Ove: Grace of Community Front Page
Film by Swedish Director Hannes Holm
By: - Oct 28th, 2016Adapted from Frederik Backman's 2012 novel and a 2017 Academy Awards selection for Best Foreign Language Film, "A Man Called Ove" is a moving portrait of a man whose suppressed emotion manifests in curmudgeonly bluster.
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Red Velvet at Chicago's Raven Theatre Front Page
Actor Ira Aldridge Challenged London's Racism
By: - Oct 27th, 2016In 1833, the African-American actor Ira Aldridge (Brandon Greenhouse) was the first black man to play the leading role in Othello in a London theater.
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Ranting and Raven Word
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Protean Word
It Ain't Me Babe
By: - Oct 26th, 2016Morning thoughts the day after turning seventy six.
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Hunchback of Notre Dame in Ft. Lauderdale Front Page
Slow Burn Theatre Company Rings the Bell
By: - Oct 25th, 2016Composer Alan Menken, lyricist Stephen Schwartz and book writer Peter Parnell have created a heartfelt, heartbreaking and riveting version of the popular Victor Hugo novel.
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They’re Playing Our Song in Boca Raton Front Page
Forty Years After Andrea McArdle Originated Role
By: - Oct 24th, 2016Today, almost 40 years later, you’ll find Andrea McArdle on the Wick Theatre stage, co-starring in a musical, They’re Playing Our Song, that made its Broadway debut just about two years after her Broadway bow.
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Williams' Night of the Iguana Front Page
Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Oct 24th, 2016In “Night of the Iguana,” largely considered the prolific Tennessee Williams’ last commercial success, the playwright, no stranger to symbolism, once again uses a vivid symbol to represent characters trapped in a prison of loneliness and unfulfilled desires.
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