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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The Hypochondriac by Moliere Front Page
Stratford Festival of Canada
By: - Aug 26th, 2016Antoni Cimolino’s production is showy, full of brilliant moments, superbly cast, and elaborately staged. But what should be a souffle soon begins to feel like a heavy, overfilled, over-spiced stew.
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Little Richard Word
Those Fabulous Fifties
By: - Aug 25th, 2016Back in the Fifties rock and roll incinerated my generation. Nobody smoked it like that wild child Little Richard.
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Chorus Line in Charleston Front Page
Opens 85th Season of Footlight Players
By: - Aug 25th, 2016The production of A Chorus Line which opened the 85th season of Footlight Players in Charleston was so fresh and lively that it was hard to fathom that the musical premiered some four decades ago. The smallish stage was packed with 26 hopefuls auditioning for just eight roles.
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Steve Martin's Meteor Shower Front Page
World Premiere at Old Globe Theatre
By: - Aug 24th, 2016“Meteor Shower”, Steve Martin's latest play, is currently wowing audiences at the Old Globe with his far-out sense of humor that deals with the social mores of 1990s California. It has already been extended twice.
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Mass MoCA Installation by Richard Nonas Front Page
The Man in the Empty Space
By: - Aug 22nd, 2016Now in his mid seventies Richard Nonas switched from anthroplogy to sculpture in his thirties. His work is featured in Building Five of MASS MoCA the largest space for contemporary art in North America.
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Gounod's Romeo and Juliet Front Page
Santa Fe Opera Orchestra
By: - Aug 22nd, 2016The Santa Fe Orchestra under Harry Bicket charges in the introduction to Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet with a dark gusto. On stage, the Capulets in blue sword fight with the Montagus in red. We quickly cut to the choral summation of the famous tale of ill-fated lover who pave the way to peace among naturally-born enemies.
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Tribes at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
Award Winning British Drama by Nina Raine
By: - Aug 22nd, 2016Since its London premiere in 2010 Tribes, an award winning drama by Nina Raine, opened Off Broadway and has since been produced by major regional companies. It is being directed at Barrington Stage Company by Jenn Thompson
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Flexn at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
The Arts and Black Lives Matter
By: - Aug 21st, 2016More than a dance company the appearance by Flexn, with its related panels and talk back, proved to be an aesthetic and political movment illustrating through inventive dance why Black Lives Matter.
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Broadway Bounty Hunter Stars Annie Golden Front Page
Barrington Stage Debuts Hit Musical by Joe Iconis
By: - Aug 20th, 2016Annie Golden broke out with Hair in 1979. As she sings in a sure to be standard the actress is a "Woman of a Certain Age." She plays herself in a world premiere of Broadway Bounty Hunters by Joe Iconis at Barrington Stage Company. This is a fun musical that you will want to see at least twice. They just don't make them like this anymore.
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Cafe Society by Woody Allen Front Page
Nostalgic Journey Back to the 1930s
By: - Aug 19th, 2016“Café Society” written and directed by Allen, once again, takes us on a nostalgic journey backward in time to the 1930s. Gorgeously photographed by Academy Award- winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro who makes the New York romantic sequences a picture-perfect post card truly ‘made for a boy and a girl’, as the lyrics say in Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers’ iconic song tribute to the Big Apple in “I’ll Take Manhattan”.
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Updating the Jason Bourne Series Front Page
Matt Damon Returns to Thriller
By: - Aug 19th, 2016Critical reception has been generally mixed. Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the flick 3 and one-half stars out of a possible four. I think he was very generous.
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Gonzo Aesthetics of Giuliano’s Poetry Front Page
Ultra Cosmic Gonzology
By: - Aug 18th, 2016With the third book of poetry by Charles Giuliano, Ultra Cosmic Gonzology, again the essayist is Robert Henriquez. The former CBS News producer has probed deeply into aspects of the avant-garde and places the development of gonzo poetry into a larger historical and literary context. The new book will be launched with a reading at Gloucester Writers Center on August 31.
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Provincetown Arts Front Page
31 Years of Publishing
By: - Aug 17th, 2016Mid summer, since 1985, we anticipate the annual issue of Provincetown Arts. The current magazine features whimsical works by the figurative fantasy painter Tabitha Vevers.
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Orson Welles Word
Citizen Kane Trump of His Day
By: - Aug 17th, 2016In 1941 a very young Orson Welles stood up to the yellow journalism of William Randolph Hearst. In every sense he was the reviled right wing Trump of his day. Citizen Kane earned nine Oscar nominations and won just one. It got the 26-year-old genius banned from Hollywood through the vindictive efforts of the Hearst tabloids.
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Depression Glass Word
Letting Go
By: - Aug 17th, 2016Buy low and sell high I thought decades ago. Planned to make a fortune on depression glass. Bought cheap at Revere Flea Market. We used some but not all of it every day.
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Journey Word
Here to Beyond
By: - Aug 16th, 2016The journey of an artist is not a straight line. Guided by an inner compass the creative path twists and turns. Initial plans morph and change as the work follows its own momentum.
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Terrence McNally Play in Fort Lauderdale Front Page
Love! Valour! Compassion! at Andrews Living Arts Studio
By: - Aug 16th, 2016“Love! Valour! Compassion!” is a character-driven, relatable, touching and terribly timely work with just a smidgen of sentimentality. The play, which will cause you to laugh one moment and cry the next, a la Neil Simon, vividly captures the fears, hopes, heartbreaks, tension and pride of a group of eight gay men in the summer of 1995.
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Boston's The Arts Fuse Front Page
Website Has Sixty Contributors
By: - Aug 15th, 2016As news rooms and journals have shrunk or disappeared there are ever fewer resurces for established arts writers. In Boston William Marx has established the respected and ever expanding site The Arts Fuse. One of the sixty contributors, film critic Gerald Peary, wrote a memo to his colleagues. We have published an excerpt. We urge our readers to link to and discover this diverse and informative arts site.
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And No More Shall We Part by Tom Halloway Front Page
Ending Life Drama with Molina and Kaczmarek at WTF
By: - Aug 14th, 2016What are the options when patients opt to end treatment for devastating, excruciatingly painful terminal illnesses? With astonishing performances by the renowned actors Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczmarek the issues are explored in And No More Shall We Part by Tom Holloway at Williamstown Theatre Festval.
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The Walk To The Paradise Garden Word
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Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
Tapping Into New Possibilities
By: - Aug 12th, 2016Based on last year's collaboration with Toshi Reagon's band Big Lovely yesterday's performance of Dorrance Dance was, for us, the most anticipated of the Jacob's Pillow season. Michelle Dorrance is celebrated for pushing the limits of the indigenous, vernacular art form of tap dancing. Collaborating with the musician and inventor Nicholas Van Young there seemed too much emphasis on sound at the sacrifice of dance.
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On the Beach Word
Making Waves
By: - Aug 10th, 2016Bracing against a ferocious Nor' easter. Elders closing ranks and holding fast resisting crashing waves.
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Einstein's Gift by Vern Thiessen Front Page
Genesis Theatricals in Chicago
By: - Aug 09th, 2016Despite its title, Vern Thiessen’s play is the story of Fritz Haber (Chris Saunders), a German Jewish chemist who made important discoveries, one of which won him the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. That discovery—which synthesized ammonia for use in fertilizers and explosives — also became the chlorine gas that killed thousands of soldiers on both sides in World War I. In particular, it was the poison gas used in the 1915 Battle of Ypres, with 100,000 casualties.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Front Page
Sol Theatre in Boca Raton
By: - Aug 08th, 2016In a traditional production of “Midsummer,” the setting of law and order is the palace of Duke Theseus. In this production, that setting becomes Hermia’s house and the nearby school.
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Bald Eagle Word
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