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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Uncle Freddy People
Dove of Peace
By: - Jul 26th, 2015Like many urban poor during the Great Depression my colorful Uncle Freddy was a card carrying member of the Communist Party of America. He was better red than dead.
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Aboard the Yacht Rachel People
Tennis and Yoga!
By: - Jul 26th, 2015More tales of the Ancien Regime recalling Marat's lists composed in the bathtub. But in Annisquam not Paris where they eat cake and sail by moonlight.
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The G People
Witness for the Prosecution
By: - Jul 26th, 2015Poet, archivist, photographer, raconteur Gerard Malanga lives with books and cats in Hudson, New York. Time was in leather he performed a whip dance with the Velvet Underground.
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Yasmina Reza Two-Hander at S&Co;. in Lenox Front Page
The Unexpected Man Directed by Seth Gordon
By: - Jul 25th, 2015From 1987 to 2006 the French playwright, Yasmina Reza, has written seven plays of which two, Art (1994) and God of Carnage (2006) have been hits. From 1995 Shakespeare & Company is presenting the rarely produced two-hander of strangers on a train, an author and a woman who has read him in depth, The Unexpected Man.
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Storm Word
Summer's Sturm und Drang
By: - Jul 25th, 2015Nature unleashed causing havoc for the author absorbed in the task of writing.
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Every Other Sunday Film
Growing Up in the Dark
By: - Jul 25th, 2015Before cinema or film noir on every other Sunday, the maid's day off, we went to the movies. On many levels I grew up in the dark.
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Family Business People
Sons in the Great War
By: - Jul 24th, 2015Starting with a tavern in Gloucester around 1910 then in Boston my grandfather James Flynn ran hotels, bars, speakeasies and nightclubs. Booze and entertainment was the family business. During the war that's just what my Uncle Arthur, later a judge did. In the air-force, as an officer, Uncle Brother landed planes from a tower in England. The good life was, and still is, the Flynn family business.
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Blair Underwood in Paradise Blue Front Page
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 24th, 2015For the fourth production of the season at Williamstown Theatre Festival yet again it is a world premiere with the casting of stars like Blair Underwood and De'adre Aziza. Unlike the prior three productions last night there was a genuine and encouraging standing O from the enthusiastic audience. There are compelling components in an uneven play by Dominque Morisseau. She aspires to do for her native Detroit what August Wilson achieves in his Century Cycle for Pittsburgh,
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James Flynn Flynn Letter to My Dad Front Page
Posted October 26, 1940 On the Occasion of My Birth
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015My grandfather James Flynn was noted as a man of few words. This is a verbatim transcription of a rare note that he wrote to my father on the occasion of my birth. On many levels it is a remarkable document.
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Wyatt Earp King of the Wild Frontier Front Page
Encounter with Gunslinger in Virginia City, Nevada
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015By the time he took part in The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Wyatt Earp was already famous; after that October afternoon in 1881, he was a legend.
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Chicago Exhibition of Jazz and Art Front Page
At Museum of Contemportary Art
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015The newly opened exhibit, The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chicago's experimental jazz collective, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which continues to expand the boundaries of jazz.
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Gaff Rigged Catboat Word
Day Sailing
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015Setting a gaff rigged catboat has its challenges. It's an old fashioned rig for sailing.
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Provincetown's Chris Busa on Ekphrasis Front Page
Publisher of 30-year-old Provincetown Arts Magazine
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015This summer Chris Busa has published the 30th annual issue of Provincetown Arts Magazine. The publication which is organized as a non profit is a widely respected compendium of the arts in the Lower Cape, past and present. The award winning magazine covers the fine arts, literature with and emphasis on poetry, film and theatre.
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Visit to Brooklyn Front Page
Pain in the Ass
By: - Jul 22nd, 2015In fear and desperation James Flynn one and only time traveled by train from Boston to Brooklyn. There to seek care from my father. It was emblematic of love and trust.
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Lost in Yonkers Soars at Barrington Stage Front Page
First Neil Simon Production for Pittsfield Company is Staggering
By: - Jul 20th, 2015Back in January Julianne Boyd announced to the media how she had always wanted to present a play by an American master, Neil Simon. She chose his Pulitzer and Tony winning Lost in Yonkers a bitter sweet saga of a poor immigrant Jewish family under the thumb of a mean and brutal matriarch. Director Jenn Thompson earned a Drama Desk nomination for a prior production of the play which she has now staged brilliantly in the Berkshires.
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Talking with Chicago Star Faye Butler Front Page
Currently on Stage at Goodman Theatre
By: - Jul 19th, 2015Faye Butler describes herself as an actor who sings, not a singer who acts. She's a theater and musical star in Chicago and nationally and has won many awards and honors for her work. She currently plays the cleaning lady, Cassandra, who knows the source of her name only too well, in the current Goodman Theatre production, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. I interviewed her about that role and her other stage and cabaret work. She let me in on a few secrets about her voice, her vocal practices -- and her dreams. (Also see our review of the play.)
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Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash Front Page
Through August at Chicago's Mercury Theatre
By: - Jul 19th, 2015Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash is a jukebox musical with no plot to speak of. It is playing at the Mercury Theatre in Chicago through August
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Hilarious World Premiere by Suzanne Heathcote Front Page
Collaboration with Berkshire Theratre Group Launches New Neighborhood
By: - Jul 19th, 2015In a bold move Berkshire Theatre Group has collaborated with New Neighborhood and a world premiere of its very first production. I Saw My Neighbor On the Train and I Didn’t Even Smile by the brilliant young British playwright, Suzanne Heathcote, is the must see show of the Berkshire season.
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On the Porch Front Page
Meeting the In Laws
By: - Jul 18th, 2015Mom married under one condition. That after their internships and residencies the young doctors would return to Boston and her family. Josephine and James Flynn were shocked that their daughter married an Italian even though he was a surgeon. Dad eased into it with pipes on the porch.
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Alonzo King LINES Ballet at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Conflating Classical Tradition and Contemporary Dance
By: - Jul 18th, 2015The premise of choreographer Alonzo King is to base his company in the training and disciple of classical dance with a bold move into post modern dissolution of traditional gender hierarchies. Listening to Bach we are surprised to see very different choreography that extends to the present the innovations of the neo classicism of George Ballanchine.
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Cynthia Nixon in Carey Perloff’s Kinship Front Page
Sisterhood is Powerful at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 17th, 2015Given the all star casting a number of shows during Mandy Greenfield's first season as artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival have sold out. This is particularly true for the smaller Nikos Stage where Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner Cynthia Nixon is featured in the three-hander Kinship by Carey Perloff, directed by Jo Bonney. In an example of gender reversal, the apparent point of this play, a woman in power, a successful editor, mentors a rookie reporter and risks career and family in an obsession that turns as dark as the fate of the Greek queen Phèdre. Perloff was directing a production of the Racine classic when it inspired her to write this play.
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Baylor Bullies Front Page
Sicilian Deep in the Heart of Texas
By: - Jul 16th, 2015The oldest of seven children from an immigrant family in Brooklyn Dad was the first to attend college. With a pharmacy degree he worked three jobs to help support the family. He left home to focus on the goal of becoming a surgeon.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Front Page
Wynton Marsalis Returns to Tanglewood
By: - Jul 15th, 2015On August 20, 2012 Wynton Marsalis shared an appearance at Tanglewood with bass player Christian McBride. Last night he returned to Ozawa Hall with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. This superb group of New York based musicians presented a program of traditional big band music from the 1930s and 1940s in the first half and works by members of the orchestra, including Marsalis, in the second.
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Three Irish Lads People
Two Nugents and a Flynn Set World Record
By: - Jul 14th, 2015My grandfather and two Nugent in laws set a world record in 1898.
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The Venetian in Vegas Front Page
Lagoons in the Deserts of Nevada
By: - Jul 14th, 2015Amazingly you can take a gondola trip through the glorious Venetian an upscale resort hotel in Vegas. There is no need for an expensive trip to Italy when you can toss in gambling for a casino weekend here in the USA.
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