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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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Celebrating Twenty Years in the Berkshires
By: - May 15th, 2014Arriving at Dottie's in Pittsfield for breakfast with Julianne Boyd, artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, several individuals notified me that she was running late. She had been up all night texting with family and friends about the birth of her fourth granddaughter. Eventually she arrived both exhausted and energized to discuss the upcoming 20th season of the company.
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Barrington Stage's New Associate Artists Theatre
Pat McCorkle, Scott Pinkney, Brian Prather, Charlie Siedenburg
By: - May 14th, 2014Barrington Stage Company announces four new Associate Artists, all of whom are working at Barrington Stage in 2014 – casting director Pat McCorkle, lighting designer Scott Pinkney, scenic designer Brian Prather, and press director Charlie Siedenburg.
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Candida and Blithe Spirit in Pittsburgh Theatre
Exploring Similarities of Classics
By: - May 14th, 2014The productions of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida (at the Pittsburgh Public Theater) and Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit (at PICT Classic Theatre) have a good deal in common: both plays are twentieth-century British comedies that dig humor out of marital relations and shine some light (more brightly in the Shaw, less so in the Coward) on male chauvinism, and both productions faithfully reproduce the period and style of the playwright and his era.
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Hope and Gravity at City Theatre Theatre
A Freefalling Drama in Pittsburgh.
By: - May 14th, 2014Hope and Gravity (currently at City Theater, in an excellent production directed by Tracy Brigden), interweaves the stories of nine characters whose lives intersect with an inexplicable and tragic elevator accident.
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PBS Secrets of Underground London Television
Precedes Masterpiece Mystery June 22
By: - May 13th, 2014Following the success of the previous behind-the-scenes looks at England’s most notable landmarks, SECRETS OF UNDERGROUND LONDON premieres Sunday, June 22, 2014, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET. The special precedes MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! “The Escape Artist†starring David Tennant.
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Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation Fine Arts
Tennessee State Museum Through August 31
By: - May 12th, 2014In the past two years the films "Twelve Years a Slave" and "Django Revisited" through graphic dramas have made Americans more vividly aware of the horrific legacy of slavery. Through the well researched and documented exhibition "Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation" the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville tracks the history of one of the nation's largest tobacco producers through generations from ante bellum to the present. It is based on the book of a Wessyngton slave descendant John F. Baker, Jr.
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Emmy Winner Marg Helgenberger at Barrington Stage Theatre
Dialogue with Director Christopher Innvar
By: - May 10th, 2014In 2011 Marg Helgenberger left the hit TV show CSI after twelve seasons. The show continues with top ratings but she departed to pursue other options including live theater. She has taken a dramatic pay cut to star in Sharr White's The Other Place which opens soon at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. She and director Christopher Innvar met with the media to discuss the most challenging role of her career.
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Rethinking Mr. Conservative Barry Goldwater Opinion
Notes on a Play in Progress
By: - May 09th, 2014When Senator Barry Goldwater ran for President of the United States that prospect evoked thoughts of Armageddon in the hearts and souls of liberal Americans. As our friend and colleague Larry Murry explains that consummate politician Lyndon Baines Johnson successfully demonized Goldwater. In a very odd way Murray, a man of astute political wisdom and common sense, not only voted for Goldwater but even campaigned for him. Which makes an enticing idea for a play that recent events of the wacko Republicans have caused him to rethink and upgrade. It's a great then and now saga.
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PBS Fall Programming Television
Season Launches with The Roosevelts September 14
By: - May 08th, 2014The Roosevelts kicks off PBS’ fall season Sunday, September 14, with an epic seven-night premiere. The 14-hour documentary airs nightly at 8 p.m. through Saturday, September 20 with a repeat at 10 p.m., and for the first time on television weaves the stories of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of one of the most prominent and influential families in American politics.
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The Frist Center for the Visual Arts Fine Arts
Nashville's Art Deco Kunsthalle
By: - May 08th, 2014Nashville is rightly known as The Music City. Since 2001, with the opening of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in a former art deco post office the city is also a regional destination for world class art exhibitions. Meeting with museum staff we discussed how a non collecting institution, a kunsthalle, manages to leverage major loans and traveling exhibitions. Primarily this is done by original scholarly work and publications as well as building relationships with partnering museums.
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Henry V at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Theatre
Harry Judge Stars Through June 15
By: - May 07th, 2014William Shakespeare’s epic Henry V is directed by celebrated British director Christopher Luscombe in his Chicago debut. In a rousing finale to the 2014 season, the play that inaugurated Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 1986 on the rooftop of Lincoln Park’s Red Lion Pub comes to the Courtyard Theater for the first time. Henry V will be performed in CST’s Courtyard Theater through June 15, 2014.
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Vlad the Impaler Opinion
The Puta Putin Skewers Dissent in Russia
By: - May 07th, 2014Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431–1476/77), was a member of the House of Drăculești, a branch of the House of Basarab, also known by his patronymic name. He inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula based on crushing dissent by impaling opposition. This barbaric autocrat evokes that other Vladamir in this case the puta Putin who silences and censors the citizens of Russia. This makes us treasure all the more free speech in America.
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7th Annual Berkshire Salon Fine Arts
Launches North Adams Gallery Season
By: - May 06th, 2014Visitors passing along Route 2 and the Mohawk Trail on their way to Mass MoCA and nearby Clark Art Institute and Williams College Museum of Art can pause and refresh with a taste of locally created work in the 7th Annual Berkshire Salon. (May 9 to June 1)
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Goya and Steve Mumford Depict War Horrors Fine Arts
Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts Through June 8
By: - May 04th, 2014The Frist Center for the Visual Arts has conflated visceral and gut wrenching exhibitions: Goya: The Disasters of War and Steve Mumford’s War Journals, 2003–2013. The tandem of shows updates from the iconic series of prints by Goya to the combat images of Mumford that track from the war zone, to veterans undergoing rehab, and the restricted access to terrorists incarcerated without due process of law in the Army operated prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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Berkshire Theatre Group Adds Acts Theatre
Busy Summer at the Colonial in Pittsfield
By: - May 04th, 2014Berkshire Theatre Group announces Peter Schickele, Irish Rovers, and Classic Albums Live Performs Abbey Road for the summer season line up at the Colonial Theatre.
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Daniel Beaty in The Tallest Tree in the Forest Theatre
Mark Taper Forum Evokes Paul Robeson
By: - May 03rd, 2014At Rutgers University Paul Robeson was a star football player. He perused a career as a singer "Old Man River" in Show Boat and actor O'Neill's The Emperor Jones. His leftist activism led him to visit and embrace the Soviet Union. In The Tallest Tree in the Forest the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles is paying tribute to him with a riveting one man show starring Daniel Beaty through May 25.
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Nicholas Martin at 75 Theatre
Former Artistic Director of Williamstown and Huntington
By: - May 01st, 2014In 2013 Nicholas Martin was nominated for a Tony as best director. While known on Broadway he is remembered for serving as artistic director of Huntington Theatre Company in Boston followed by three years in that capacity with Williamstown Theatre Festival. His term was shortened by a stroke as he continued to work following a full schedule on both coasts. For the extended theatre family that loved him Nicky was a warm and supportive father figure.
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A Game's Afoot at Indiana Repertory Theatre Theatre
Matthew Brumlow Stars Through May 18
By: - May 01st, 2014Part farce and part whodunit, The Game’s Afoot is a playful mystery that pokes fun at actors and theatre critics alike. Matthew Brumlow plays the real life actor William Gillette who made Sherlock Holmes famous on the stage.
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PBS Summer Schedule Television
Returing Favorites and New Features
By: - May 01st, 2014PBS announces a summer schedule of programming spanning generations and genres. From examinations of our nation’s history to our connections to the animal kingdom, and escapes to Britain’s courtrooms and countryside, PBS offers diverse series and specials for all viewers.
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Natchez, Mississippi's Mansions Architecture
Iconic Antebellum Architecture
By: - Apr 30th, 2014Natchez, Mississippi, per capita, was one of America's wealthiest communities prior to the Civil War. Plantation owners competed in erecting magnificent mansions in the neo classical, Greek Revival style. In commissioning Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan's grand octagonal design Dr. Haller Nutt's Longwood strove to be unique. When war broke out in 1861 construction was abruptly halted. For generations the family occupied the first floor of the unfinished home. It is the astonishing highlight of a tour of mansions and encounter with their grim legacy of slavery.
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2014 Tony Award Nominees Theatre
Hugh Jackman Hosts on June 8
By: - Apr 29th, 2014Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu announced the nominations for the 68th annual Tony Awards at the Paramount Hotel’s Diamond Horseshoe April 29, with Tony host Hugh Jackman also popping up to remind theater fans to watch the telecast live on CBS on June 8.
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NY's Signature Theatre Wins Tony Theatre
2014 Regional Theatre Award
By: - Apr 29th, 2014The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that it will present the 2014 Regional Theatre Award to New York’s Signature Theatre. Each year, the Tony Awards Administration Committee presents a Tony Award to a regional theatre on the recommendation of the American Theatre Critics Association. This is the first time that a New York company has won the regional award which normally recognizes nation theatre.
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Water by the Spoonful at Old Globe Theatre
Pulitzer Prize Winner by Quiara Alegria Hudes
By: - Apr 29th, 2014As back-story for “Water by the Spoonfulâ€, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama for Quiara Alegria Hudes, the character of Ortiz is a bright, but haunted, young Puerto Rican returning Iraq war veteran who has been attempting to put his fractured Philadelphia home life back together. It runs on the Old Globe's White Stage in San Diego, California through May 11.
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The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards Theatre
2014 List of Nominations
By: - Apr 27th, 2014The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by Laura Benanti, will take place on Sunday, June 1, 2014, at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan. TheaterMania.com will present the awards ceremony. Gretchen Shugart is Managing Executive Producer of the Drama Desk Awards. Joey Parnes Productions will produce and manage the show. The President of Drama Desk is Isa Goldberg and Randie Levine Miller is Director of Special Events.
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British Pop Artist Richard Hamilton Fine Arts
Co Curated by Tate Modern and London's ICA
By: - Apr 27th, 2014Richard Hamilton is a truly influential figure in the history of British art and is considered to be the founder of the Pop Art movement. This retrospective is a collaboration between Tate Modern and the ICA, and covers the eclectic career of a very important British artist who wanted to get “all of living†into his art.
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