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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Death in Boston Word
Where Cabots Speak Only to Lowells
By: - Oct 06th, 2015While lecturing at the Copley Society the architect Frank Lloyd Wright told the audience " What Boston needs is one hundred first class funerals."
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Veils by Tom Coash Front Page
Didactic Award Winning Play at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Oct 05th, 2015In the post 9/11 climate President Obama has been referred to as a closeted Muslim. The African American Republican candidate Ben Carson has stated that, despite the concept of freedom of religion, a Muslim should not be President. Before JFK there was a similar injunction against Catholics. For its fall collaboration with regional schools Barrington Stage Company is presenting the awarding winning play Veils by Tom Coash.
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Shooting into the Ranks Word
The Mighty Are Falling
By: - Oct 04th, 2015Every more common reports of friends diseased and dead. Given our age my friend said "They're shooting into the ranks."
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The Homecoming by Harold Pinter Front Page
Brutalist Realism at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Oct 04th, 2015Kudos to Berkshire Theatre Group for the tough love of presenting a smash to the head in a stunning production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming. Eric Hill has brilliantly directed a superb cast in an always challenging Pinter play.
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Festival Travel
Art in Narrow Streets
By: - Oct 03rd, 2015Come early and stay late. Staying for a week by the sea for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. Four intense days of performances bookended by walks on the beach.
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Random Word
Polka Dots and Moon Beams
By: - Oct 03rd, 2015Shocked to learn that a former neighbor in Annisquam, Ben Hedbloom, died last week.
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In Your Arms at Old Globe Front Page
World Premiere of Musical in San Diego
By: - Oct 03rd, 2015“In Your Arms” is the brain-child of brilliant choreographer/director Christopher Gattelli and Broadway producer Jennifer Manocherian. It is having its world premiere at Old Globe in San Diego.
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Icelandic Portfolio Travel
Arni's Birthday Party 2015
By: - Oct 03rd, 2015Recently Pippy Giuliano and her family, husband Yuri Tuvim, and daughter Sarah traveled to Iceland. Yuri has family there and they have been frequent visitors over many years. The occasion was to celebrate Arni's birthday. Pippy, a gifted artist, created a stunning portfolio of images. They richly convey the rugged natural beauty of a spectacular landscape.
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Rastas in P'Town Food
Taste of Home Cooking
By: - Oct 02nd, 2015With seasonal work visas the Jamaicans staff Provincetown restaurants and motels. For a good meal that reminds them of home there is takeout at the colorful food shack on Shankpainter road. The goat curry stew we tried was simply divine.
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Amy Arbus: After Images Front Page
Provincetown Arts Association and Museum
By: - Oct 02nd, 2015Blessed/ burdened with the fame of her photographer mother, Amy Arbus, after youthful resistance and the pursuit of studying music, was lured into a career in photography. She has had some 25 one woman shows and published five books. The stunning and sensual exhibition of modern master appropriations, Amy Arbus: After Images, is on view at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum through November 15.
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Vico Word
Privincetown Tales
By: - Oct 01st, 2015We met our artist friends Vico and Grace for a leisurely Sunday brunch on a glorious fall day in Provincetown. With full body language, shrugs, and accents Vico entertained us with a hilarious story of a scary encounter.
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Ride Hamilton and David Kaplan Collaborate Front Page
The Hotel Plays at Berta Walker Gallery
By: - Oct 01st, 2015Last April, cramped into small rooms in the French Quarter for The Hotel Plays of Tennessee Williams, we first encountered the photographer Ride Hamilton. This past week we again interacted during the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. In addition to the performances we much enjoyed his installation, a collaborator with the festival curator, director and scholar, David Kaplan, at the Berta Walker Gallery. It richly evoked memories of New Orleans.
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Tennessee Williams Cabaret Front Page
Armando Arrocha and Colette Simple
By: - Sep 30th, 2015During the recent Provinctetown Tennessee Williams Festival we attended two performances of cabaret, based on works of Williams at the Crown and Anchor. The two experiences comprised a study in contrast with the best and worst of the tenth annual festival.
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Reign in Spain Word
Tropical Depression
By: - Sep 30th, 2015Last week in Provincetown we had glorious late September weather. Today a tropical storm is soaking the Berkshires. It's a good day to just stay in bed so she said.
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Tennessee Williams Old and New Front Page
Year Tenn and Reading of a Guare Work in Progress
By: - Sep 29th, 2015In ten years the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival has premiered eleven works by Williams as well as ones inspired by him. There was a retrospective of 15 excerpts at Town Hall during thi year's festival. The special treat of the festival was a sneak preview of "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven," based on a Williams short story, a work in progress by John Guare.
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Yin and Yang of Tennessee Williams Front Page
From Juvenalia to Theatre of the Absurd
By: - Sep 29th, 2015Over four days we attended nine performances during the tenth annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. This planned from the juvenalia of Parade, written during his first visit in 1940, through The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde a violently erotic example of Grand Guignol created near the end of a long and tormented life,
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Real Women Have Curves Front Page
Pasadena Playhouse Production
By: - Sep 29th, 2015The current comedy production “Real Women Have Curves”, written by Josefina Lopez, is skillfully directed by Pasadena Playhouse associate artistic director Seema Sueko. The story set in a tiny sewing factory in East Los Angeles in 2015, celebrates Latina power and Latina women’s bodies.
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Disgraced at the Goodman Theatre Front Page
Pulitzer Prize Winning Play in Chcago
By: - Sep 29th, 2015Kimberly Senior, who has directed Disgraced since its first 2012 production in Chicago at American Theater Company, directs Goodman's new production. She directed its Lincoln Center debut in late 2012 and then its Broadway production in 2014. Since then, it has become one of the most-produced plays in the country.
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Eclipse Word
09/27/2015
By: - Sep 28th, 2015From the beach in Truro, looking up into the clear night sky, we watched the first lunar eclipse in thirty years.
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Harvest Moon Word
Late September in Truro
By: - Sep 27th, 2015Bookending summer. In Truro in May, when the town comes away, then late September when it winds down. Three performances a day during Ten on Tenn. Tonight the harvest moon with an eclipse. Sand in our shoes to shake off in the city.
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Jackson Pollock Inspired Tennessee Williams Front Page
David Kaplan Discusses The Day On Which a Man Dies
By: - Sep 26th, 2015David Kaplan directed The Day on Which a Man Dies by Tennessee Williams. It presented an over the top depiction of an ersatz deranged, stripped to his skivvies, paint spattered, drunken artist loosely based on Jackson Pollock. We have engaged in a lively exchange about the scholarly sources for the fascinating Pollock and Williams interactions. It appears that they knew each other on the beaches and in the bars of Provincetown.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Front Page
Launching the Festival with Two Plays at The Provinctown Theater
By: - Sep 25th, 2015For the first day of the Tenth Annual Provinctown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival we attended a matinee of The Day on Which a Man Dies and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. Both plays were presented by the returning festival favorites Abrahamese & Meyer Productions from Cape Town, South Africa. The plays and performances were truly astonishing.
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Tempest Chicago Shakespeare Front Page
Inventive Production
By: - Sep 24th, 2015A bewitching production of Shakespeare's most exotic and evocative play. The Tempest roars at Chicago Shakeapeare.
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Chicago Critic Visits New York Front Page
Covers Hamilton, The Flick and Desire
By: - Sep 21st, 2015Our Chicago theatre correspondent, Nancy Bishop, recently checked in at the Edison Hotel in the heart of Times Square. She reports on several hot shows: Hamilton, The Flick and Desire.
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The Christians NY Hit by Lucas Hnath Front Page
From the Humana Festival to Playwrights Horizons
By: - Sep 21st, 2015The consensus among critics attending the 38th Humana Festival in Louisville rated The Christians by Lucas Hnath as the best new play. It has now opened to strong reviews at New York's Playwrights Horizons. This is a reposting of our original review.
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