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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Christopher Durang Comedy at Mark Taper Forum Theatre
Vanya and Sonia Masha and Spike
By: - Feb 27th, 2014Christopher Durang, freely borrows characters and plot-lines from Chekhov’s plays, then cleverly remixes and reinserts them into his highly entertaining comedy tale with the result being it’s one of the best ensemble casts to tread LA theatre boards in quite awhile. At Mark Taper Forum through March 9.
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The Who & The What by Ayad Ahktar Theatre
World Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Feb 27th, 2014In the world premiere of “The Who & The What,â€, at The La Jolla Playhouse through March 9, playwright Ayad Ahktar boldly goes where few Muslim writer’s (except for Salmon Rushdie) have gone before – to the heart of religion – to the family.
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Nikos Stage for 2014 Theatre
Williamtown Theatre Festival Update
By: - Feb 27th, 2014Previously Williamstown Theatre Festival released the Main Stage schedule. Now we are informed of two plays for the smaller Nikos Stage.
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Alec Baldwin Cries No Mas Opinion
Why He Vants to Be Alone
By: - Feb 26th, 2014For decades actor Alec Baldwin has opted to duke it out with paparazzis and the gossip media. Now like Roberto Duran tossing in the towel stating "No Mas" Baldwin, in a screed in New York Magazine titled "I Give Up," is withdrawing from public life. For celebrities of his stature, who have tried it in the past, this is more easily said than done. As Martha and the Vandellas sang "Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide."
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WAM Theatre Announces 2014 Season Theatre
Focus on Women and Girls
By: - Feb 25th, 2014WAM Theatre’s Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven announces highlights of the 2014 season. The Berkshire-based professional theatre company will celebrate its fifth anniversary with plays readings, special events, panel discussions, and educational programs that focus on women artists and stories of women
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Private Lives at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Having a Laugh in the Dead of Winter
By: - Feb 23rd, 2014There isn't a lot of depth and substance to Noel Coward's classic 1930 comedy Private Lives. Under artistic director Tony Simotes the game actors of Shakespeare & Company are striving to create an upbeat hilarious production. Through March 30 theatre is alive and well in Lenox as we wait for signs of Spring.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2014 Season Theatre
Programming from Pittsfield to Stockbridge
By: - Feb 21st, 2014"For our 86th Summer Season, we are producing a full schedule of musicals, plays, and special theatrical performances for another wonderful summer in the Berkshires with a splendid cast and crew of talented artists from across the nation,†said Kate Maguire. "Six extraordinary plays: The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful, Benefactors, Design for Living, A Hatful of Rain, including two world premieres: Cedars and POE and two wonderful musicals: A Little Night Musicand Seussical highlight our schedule and make for an enjoyable mix of masterful and provocative classics and contemporary works. A special week-long performance of A Lover's Talespotlighting the works of Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Ludlam and Alexandre Dumas and performances by our summer apprentices, our 86th season will be memorable and entertaining for all.â€
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It Happened in Saint-Tropez Film
French Film Directed by Daniele Thompson
By: - Feb 20th, 2014“It Happened in Saint-Tropez†is gorgeously photographed by Jean-Marc Fabre along with a stunning production design by Michele Abbe-Vannier. The film is easy on the eyes, and is well acted. It’s a light, frothy, tasty French pastry of a movie that produces chuckles and laughs all the while being entertaining in the process. And there isn’t a calorie in sight. Enjoy!
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24th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival Film
Shoes Written and Directed by Ukrainian-born Costa Fam
By: - Feb 20th, 2014The story of the film “Shoes†is cleverly told without dialogue or seeing the faces of the actors. This unique film approach immediately engages the viewer; drawing them deeper into the story that director Costa Fam wants to tell. “Shoes†is a powerful, yet tenderly crafted movie, that traces a pair of red shoes from their purchase by a young woman just beginning to enjoy the pleasures and dreams that life has to offer.
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Neil Diamond: Solitary Man Film
Film by BBC-TV Production Team
By: - Feb 20th, 2014“Neil Diamond: Solitary Man†chronicles Diamond’s early years growing up in Brooklyn and his initiation into the world of songwriters working in the famous Brill Building, in New York City in the fifties. He wrote songs for others, but always harbored a desire to become a performer of his own songs.
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The Winter's Tale at Old Globe Theatre
First Production by Artistic Director Barry Edelstein
By: - Feb 20th, 2014San Diego's renowned Old Globe’s new Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, wanted his favorite Shakespeare play, “The Winter’s Tale†to be his first directorial production – and he wanted to present it inside, in the Globe’s venerable and famous 75 year-old theatre.
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The 64th Berlinale Set New Records Film
Film Festival reigned February 6-16
By: - Feb 19th, 2014The 64th Berlinale just closed after eleven days, while 400 films from around the world were viewed by 330.000 Berliners and international visitors. The talk of the city while it lasted!
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Eagle Columnist John Seven Boycotts Artistic Creeps Opinion
Separating Individuals from their Accomplishments
By: - Feb 19th, 2014Dishing the dirt on celebrities has become a billion dollar industry for muckraking supermarket tabloids, talk radio, and TV entertainment and gossip shows. But we were shocked and distressed when Berkshire Eagle columnist John Seven unloaded a mud slinging screed against Woody Allen and other "artistic creeps." Seven seems surprised and offended to realize that great artists are not always great people. Duh.
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Ai Weiwei a Smash in Miami Fine Arts
Florida Protest Artist Destroys Priceless Vase
By: - Feb 18th, 2014As an act of protest the renowned dissident Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, famously was photographed deliberately dropping and destroying a priceless Han Dynasty vase. Now it appears that in protest an artist has dropped an ancient vessel, painted over by Weiwei, that was included in his traveling exhibition. We explore the many layers of irony that tracks vandalism mimicking the creative destruction of Weiwei. Yet again imitation, however criminal, is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall Music
With Guest Conductor Bernard Haitink in a Ravel Program
By: - Feb 17th, 2014In celebration of his 85th birthday Bernard Haitink has arranged several New York concerts as a guest conductor. We covered his Carnegie Hall appearance in an all Ravel program leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its Tanglewood Chorus.
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Barrrington’s Theatrical Speed Dates Theatre
Third Annual 10 x 10 Upstreet Festival of New Plays
By: - Feb 17th, 2014Through March 2 Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield is presenting its now annual, much anticipated 10 x 10 Upstreet a lively festival of new plays. The pace is fast and furious as one theatrical thumbnail morphs into another and another. After two quick and crammed acts we departed with a head swirling marathon of impressions. There were many joyous nuggets in a mash up of intensive theatre.
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Gonzo Chronicles Two Opinion
Arthur Yanoff Hipster and Jewish Artist of the Year
By: - Feb 16th, 2014Looking Berkshire hipster and artist Arthur Yanoff in the eye the rabbi told him "Once a Lubavitcher always a Lubavitcher." In part two we move from Coffee Corner to crits with Clement Greenberg and raising dogs in the country. Along the way Yanoff was celebrated as Jewish Artist of the Year. For which he had to rent a tux in Great Borington. Or something like that in no particular order.
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Darren Waterston at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Deconstructing Whistler's Peacock Room
By: - Feb 14th, 2014For the past 18 months, while resident in the artist loft Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Darren Waterston has been working on an exacting installation based on Whistler's iconic Peacock Room. We viewed the work in progress with the artist during the intensive final phase of the exhausting project. The work is now completed and on view.
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The Gonzo Chronicles Opinion
Arthur Yanoff Recalls Coffee Corner
By: - Feb 13th, 2014Arthur Yanoff has had a one man show at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and was named Jewish Artist of the Year. A couple of years ago he and photographer Kay Canavino collaborated on a Melville project for the Ralph Brill Gallery and the author's former home Arrowhead in Pittsfield. We met recently to discuss Boston's Coffee Corner and its rarely documented hipster legacy which was a spawning ground for gonzo.
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Hail Sid Caesar Television
The King of Comedy during its Golden Age
By: - Feb 13th, 2014During the Golden Age of Comedy in the pioneering era of television in the 1950s the undisputed King of Comedy was Sid Caesar. After decades of self abuse he embraced sobriety and clean living. This week he passes away at the hilarious age of 91. We recall his genius and the genre he presided over.
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Reading of St. Germain Play at MCLA Theatre
Dancing Lessons and Q&A on March 8
By: - Feb 13th, 2014Mark St. Germain is developing a two person play Dancing Lessons to premiere this summer at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. It entails a brilliant professor with Aspberger's a form of Autism. He seeks dancing lessons from a resident in his New York apartment building leading to a poignant and humorous relationship. There will be a Q&A following a reading at MCLA on March 8.
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Hannah Höch at London's Whitechapel Gallery Fine Arts
Pioneer Dadaist of 1920s Berlin
By: - Feb 13th, 2014Using the technique of collage Hannah Hoch was one of the most inventive artists of the absurdist Dada movement in Germany during the 1920s. Her work is being surveyed at London's Whitechapel Gallery. She was condemned by the Nazis and included in Entartete Kunst an exhibition of Degenerate Art.
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Steel Magnolias Blooms in Indy Theatre
Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre to Feb. 22
By: - Feb 13th, 2014There are no secrets in a beauty parlor where women and their beauticians dish the dirt. Steel Magnolias is best know for the Academy Award winning 1989 film. It was a stage play before that. In a lively and absorbing production it is being staged in Indianapolis at the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre through February 22. If your favorite emotion is, in Truvy’s words, “laughter through tears,†you’ll be right at home.
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2014 Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival Music
Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29
By: - Feb 09th, 2014The 37th annual Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, one of the most celebrated and longest running jazz events in the world, will be held on Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. This year's festival headliners include Earth, Wind & Fire, Trombone Shorty, Terence Blanchard, Dave Holland Prism, Patti Austin, Jon Batiste & Stay Human, Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra, Quinn Sullivan, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Newport Jazz Festival®: Now 60, among others.
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Beautiful—The Carole King Musical Theatre
From Brooklyn to Broadway
By: - Feb 08th, 2014Beautiful—The Carole King Musical, currently at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway, is another prime example where song and dance, beautifully delivered by a talented cast and crew, trumps the storyline. Carole King attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn, the same one that I attended. Carole Klein as she was known in those years belonged to Gamma Phi the same sorority as my sister Annette.
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