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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Matilda Soars in London's West End Theatre
Olivier and Tony Winning Musical Also on Broadway
By: - Nov 15th, 2013Having won a remarkable seven Olivier Awards the musical Matilda was restaged in New York. There it won a modest four Tonys. It is the current toast of Broadway. Surrounded by kids of all ages we caught a Saturday matinee in London's West End. Rarely have we been more delighted.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Theatre
Best Play in London’s West End Reopensin June
By: - Nov 14th, 2013With rave reviews and multiple awards, including seven Oliviers (the British equivalenbt of Tonys), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime may be the most original, galvanic and influential play of this century on either side of the pond. The only real question is when this magnificent production, the hottest ticket in London, will make its way to Broadway. Until then hop a plane.
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Corelli and the Elevator Music
Exploring Musical Ups and Downs
By: - Nov 14th, 2013Go for it. What would you say has been the most important invention over the past five hundred years or so? The automobile? Nuclear power? The microchip? Sliced bread? My vote…(drum roll)…the elevator!
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George Brant's Grounded Theatre
NY Premiere at Page 73 Productions
By: - Nov 14th, 2013Page 73 Productions, now in its 16th year premiering the next generation of American playwrights – who have included Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, Drama Desk Award winner Sam Hunter, New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award recipient Dan LeFranc, and more – will present the New York premiere of George Brant’s gripping new play GROUNDED, directed by two-time Obie Award-winning director Ken Rus Schmoll (TELEPHONE, A MAP OF VIRTUE) and starring Hannah Cabell (3C, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS opposite Frank Langella). Previews begin on January 8 at Walkerspace (46 Walker Street) in Manhattan.
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Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Reality Show Theatre
Theater for the New City Nov. 29 to Dec. 15
By: - Nov 14th, 2013Theater for the New City presents Phoebe Legere's "Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Reality Show," a very funny musical about love, war, espionage and creative genius. The play, directed by Zen Mansley, portrays the courtiers, scientists, artists, intellectuals, poets and ladies of Elizabeth's Court. The theatre is located at 155 First Ave., at E. 10th Street in New York City.
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38th Humana Festival of New American Plays Theatre
Actors Theatre of Louisville February 26–April 6
By: - Nov 14th, 2013The Humana Festival of New American Plays is now in its 38th year. The American Theatre Critics Association will meet and participate in the Lousiville, Kentucky event.
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Tina Packer to Direct Henry VIII Theatre
The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University
By: - Nov 13th, 2013The founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, Tina Packer, will direct the Bard's rarely presented Henry VIII for Actor's Shakespeare Project. It was run in Boston at The Modern Theatre of Suffolk University from December 11 through January 5.
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Milos Karadaglic, the Brooklyn Riders, Bela Fleck Music
At New York's Le Poisson Rouge
By: - Nov 13th, 2013We welome the New York music critic Djurdjija Vucinic. She reports on several performances at the renowned Le Poisson Rouge.
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Albee's At Home at the Zoo Theatre
Acting Up Production in Indianapolis
By: - Nov 12th, 2013Any production of an Edward Albee play is a cause for celebration. Years later he added a second act to the brief Zoo Story. Acting Up in Indianapolis presented the expanded At Home In the Zoo. As one may imagine it's a tough play with adult content and strong language.
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The Zen of Watching Westerns Film
When Contemplating Art Just Ain't Enough
By: - Nov 12th, 2013Artist and theorist Martin Mugar is taking a break from his usual beat to explore the philosophical nuances and cult implications of watching Westerns. The discourse ranges from Hopalong Cassidy, to the Marklborough Man as a hacking and coughing paradigm of manhood, and the ultra vi of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. Here he gets his kicks on Route 66. With a left turn through Monument Valley.
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A Brecht Twofer in Dublin and London Theatre
Threepenny Opera and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
By: - Nov 11th, 2013This past summer Shakespeare & Comoany staged Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children starring Olympia Dukakis with John Douglas Thompson as the Cook. This led to a dialogue with Thompson exploring the play and the concept of Epic Theatre. Here we consider two more productions. At the Gate Theatre in Dublin the musical with Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera. And in London's West End The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
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Nail Biting Captain Phillips Film
Tom Hanks and Unknowns Battle on the High Seas
By: - Nov 11th, 2013As good as Tom Hanks is, and he’s very good, he shares the screen with first time actors: Barkhad Abdi as Muse, the leader of the pirates; Barkhad Abdirahman as Bilal, the loose cannon of the four, Faysal Ahmed as Najee, and Mahat M. Ali as Elmi, the teenaged pirate. This high seas thriller will be a likely Oscar contender.
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Maria Callas Evoked in Master Class Theatre
At CVREP in Rancho Mirage
By: - Nov 11th, 2013“Master Classâ€, is the 2013-14 CV Rep’s season opener and is the first production in three seasons that has more than two actors in the cast. The highly successful Rancho Mirage professional theatre in California, now beginning its third season ups the ante with this production in that it features six actors.
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The Hanging Gardens by Frank McGuiness Theatre
World Premiere at the Abbey Theatre Dublin
By: - Nov 10th, 2013For our first visit to the 110 -year-old Abbey Theatre in Dublin we enjoyed an intense and poignant family drama The Hanging Gardens by Frank McGuiness. Having enjoyed its world premiere in Ireland it is an engaging drama that would play well as a staple of American regional theatre.
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Mouse Trap Mystifies Theatre
At Arthur Newman Theatre, in Palm Desert, California.
By: - Nov 09th, 2013The play written by Agatha Christie, which opened in November of 1952, is billed as the longest, continuously running play in theatre history. If I do the math correctly that’s sixty-one years. That’s a lot of performances.
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12 Years a Slave Film
Film a Sure Oscar Contender
By: - Nov 09th, 2013The film is not the tale of the Old South that your grandparents remember when viewing “Gone With the Windâ€. This is an unflinchingly brutal, cruel story told from the point of view of the thousands of black slaves who have endured two hundred and fifty years of living lives devoid of basic humanity and denied the dignity that all humans deserve.
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The Iliad at Indiana Repertory Theatre Theatre
Henry Woronicz in a Tour-de-force Performance
By: - Oct 22nd, 2013The Indiana Repertory Theatre's production of The Iliad, a one man show with with Henry Woronicz, is mesmerizing in its complexity, maintaining a comedic edge despite the serious material. Using Robert Fagles’ translation of Homer’s original work playwrights Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare create a completely new play. It runs through November 16.
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Will Any Gentlemen to October 27 Theatre
College of the Desert’s Theatre
By: - Oct 21st, 2013Tres Dean, the director of “Will Any Gentlemen?â€, currently on the boards at College of the Desert’s Theatre Too stage, and the creative engine that runs the Theatre Department, is racking up credits and points as the desert’s go to guy for British farce.
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The Fifth Estate Flops Film
Julian Assange Drama Under House Arrest
By: - Oct 21st, 2013On the upside: The acting is splendid. The performances are first rate, with a possible Oscar nomination in 2014 for Benedict Cumberbatch for his eerily accurate portrayal of mysterious, conflicted, and idiosyncratic computer genius-with-an-obsession, Julian Assange.
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TransCultural Exchange Boston 2013 Fine Arts
Thinking Globally Acting Locally
By: - Oct 21st, 2013Attending the Boston TransCultural Exchange for the fourth time meant catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. This is a portrait gallery of many of the artists, panels and participants during the four day event attended by more that 400 delegates and speakers.
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Sargent as Court Painter to the Gilded Age Fine Arts
Reflections on MFA's 1999 Exhibition
By: - Oct 20th, 2013The current exhibition of Sargent's Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Arts prompts artist/ critic Martin Mugar to repost his review of the 1999 MFA exhibition. He compares Sargent in style and manner to Velasquez as a court painter. It is well know that Sargent's masterpiece "Daughters of Edward D. Boit" borrowed its composition from "Las Meninas" by the Spanish master.
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Sargent’s Watercolors at the MFA Fine Arts
Glorious Glitz Awash Until January 20
By: - Oct 19th, 2013The traveling exhibition "John Singer Sargent Watercolors" encourages us to view the artist as more than a glib and succesful society portrait painterr of the Gilded Age. This is an intimate study of the private Sargent painting in nature entirely for his own pleasure. It is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity to see this aspect of his work in stunning depth and range,.
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Sullivan Station in Lee Food
Lunch in Historic Landmark
By: - Oct 19th, 2013For an atmospheric lunch or dinner consider Sullivan Station in Lee the gateway to the Berkshires. Enjoy the intact interior of the 1893 building with lots of vibtage memorabelia.
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The Last Goodbye at Old Globe Theatre
Originated at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Oct 17th, 2013The Last Goodbye,†now at the Old Globe, had its world premiere at the 2010 Williamstown Theatre Festival, and since then has been a work in progress undergoing one “musical autopsy†after another in an effort to ensure that the work will find a friendly regional theatre stage to call home for awhile. It is set to the music of the late Tim Buckley. The production runs to November 3.
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Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde Fine Arts
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to February 2
By: - Oct 17th, 2013The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents “Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Gardeâ€, the largest survey in twenty years devoted to the work of the Russian avant-garde pioneer Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935) through February 2, 2014.
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