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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Barrington Stage Presents Linda Lavin July 8 Theatre
Schedule for Mr. Finn's Cabaret Series
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013Featuring an eclectic mix of Broadway standards and cabaret songs, Tony and Golden Globe-winning actress Linda Lavin’s new cabaret will show you why Stephen Holden of The New York Times calls her “…a human tornado who lets nothing stand in her way…She has a jazz side, can swing and scat and even growl like Louis Armstrong, and displays a special fondness for Brazilian bossa nova.†T
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Gardner Museum Theft Investigation Fine Arts
You Can Help
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013On the night of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the Museum’s galleries, stealing thirteen works of art.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Theatre
College of the Desert (COD) Production
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013In the College of the Desert (COD) production at the Pollock Theatre, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestâ€, director Tres Dean gives full rein to his talented cast to do just that which they do in spades.
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A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder Theatre
The Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in San Diego
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013“A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder†is currently at The Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley stage in San Diego’s Balboa Park. This world premiere musical comedy conjured up by the remarkable team of Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, and brilliantly directed by Darko Tresnjak, is an early Christmas gift to the city of San Diego. It's taking place at one of America’s finest Regional theatres.
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Menopause the Musical Theatre
Night Sweats at Indy's Beef and Boards
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013For a girls's night out Menopause the Musical is a no sweat, fun musical. It runs through May 12 at Indy's Beef and Boards dinner theatre. Women going through "The Change" interact compassionately while shopping at Bloomingdales.
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Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook Meet the Press Music
Faith Prince and Megan Hilty To Join Feinstein at Tanglewood
By: - Apr 02nd, 2013When Michael Feinstein appeared at Tanglewood last summer Liza Minnelli hopped the train with him at the last minute and popped on stage to thrill the audience in The Shed with "New York New York." While Faith Prince and Megan Hilty are confirmed as guests this summer we asked him if there is a chance that Barbara Cook may also board his Lenox bound Chattanooga Choo Choo. Barbara, who loves Tanglewood, just smiled.
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Why ATCA Indianapolis Opinion
Best of the Midwest with Boys and Girls on the Bus
By: - Apr 01st, 2013We return from an intensive visit of the American Theatre Critics Association in Indianapolis with more questions than answers. Mostly about the state of the arts in America's heartland. A busman's holiday evokes taking the pulse.
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Clark Art Institute's Works by George Inness Fine Arts
Major Gift by Frank and Katherine Martucci
By: - Apr 01st, 2013The Clark Art Institute will present its eight Inness landscapes in an exhibition, "George Inness: Gifts from Frank and Katherine Martucci," which will be on view June 9–September 8, 2013. The presentation will unite new acquisitions with two works by Inness, Wood Gatherers: An Autumn Afternoon and Home at Montclair, that were purchased by Sterling Clark and have been a part of the Institute’s collection since 1955.
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Going Going Gone and I Am Peter Pan Theatre
Sunday Morning at Indy Fringe Theatre
By: - Mar 30th, 2013On Sunday morning, the final day of the American Theatre Critics Association meeting in Indianapolis we encountered life on the edge of the arts. It was insightful to learn about and experience Fringe theatre in Indy and hear from fringers in Cincinnati and St. Louis. It was so absorbing that Astrid Hiemer of BFA bounded on stage and became a character in the improv piece Going Going Gone.
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Shakespeare & Company Adds Programming Theatre
Dance, Music, Zany Antics and More
By: - Mar 30th, 2013Shakespeare & Company’s 36th Performance Season just keeps getting bigger and better! Artistic Director Tony Simotes is pleased to announce additional programming filled with dance, music, zany antics and more with four new additions to the already scheduled line-up.
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Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 Theatre
Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre Indianapolis
By: - Mar 29th, 2013Forty years ago when Indy's Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre was founded it was a fad. With annual ticket sales of some 150.000 now it is only one of seven equity companies that remain. More low brow than high brow, none the less, its production of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 was a flat out hoot. In particular the blonde bombshell Crystal Mosser was a smash.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Sunset Limited Theatre
At Coachella Valley Repertory Company
By: - Mar 29th, 2013A few years back Cormac McCarthy’s novel “No Country for Old Menâ€, was turned into an Academy award-winning movie. His current allegorical play “Sunset Limitedâ€, deftly directed by Ron Celona and starring ML Berry as Black, and Don Oscar Smith as White, is a curious piece.
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The Lyons at Indy's Phoenix Theatre Theatre
Dark Comedy Stars Diane Kondrat
By: - Mar 29th, 2013The dark comedy The Lyons which had a run on Broadway has been staged at The Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. It stars veteran actor Diane Kondrat, as the matriarch of a dysfunctional family. The macabre action is set in the hospital room of her terminally ill husband visited by their two over the top children. The familial cruelty evoked is outrageously hilarious. Kondrat's Rita Lyons is a character we love to hate.
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An Indy Insider's View of ATCA Visit Opinion
Celebrating the Arts in Indianapolis
By: - Mar 28th, 2013During the American Theatre Critics Association meeting in Indianapolis we met with Melissa Hall who posts to the blog StageWrite Indy. With this take on a visit from out of towners we welcome her as a contributor to Berkshire Fine Arts. We will look forward to her coverage.
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Dance Kaleidoscope of Indianapolis Dance
A Program Set To Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf
By: - Mar 28th, 2013The performance of Piaf Plus which we attended in Indianapolis by the 41-year-old Dance Kaleidoscope was a compelling conflation of narrative inflected American Modernism with a decidedly French accent. The choreography was created by the company's 22-year-long artistic director and former member of the Martha Graham company, David Hochoy. While elegant and conservative the dance had spectacular elements evked by lead dancers Jilian Godwin and Zach Young.
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Mass MoCA's FreshGrass Festival Music
Performers Announced for September 20 to 23
By: - Mar 28th, 2013Del McCoury, Leftover Salmon, The Infamous Stringdusters, Sam Bush, The Lone Bellow, and Dr. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys are part of the first wave of performers announced for the FreshGrass festival. Bill Evans, Jerry Douglas, Alison Brown, Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall, The Wood Brothers, Dan Zanes, Elizabeth Mitchell, Lake Street Dive, The Gibson Brothers, Noam Pikelny and Friends, John Reischman and the Jaybirds, Elephant Revival, Darol Anger, and Mandolin Orange are also confirmed.
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Stephen Metcalfe's Strange Snow was Film Jacknife Theatre
Groves Cabin Theatre, in Morongo Valley, CA.
By: - Mar 28th, 2013Stephen Metcalfe's stage play “Strange Snow†became the basis for the 1989 movie “Jacknifeâ€, starring Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris, and Cathy Bates.The powerful and compelling drama currently dazzling audiences at the Groves Theatre, is brilliantly directed by actor/director Abe Daniels, and features a wonderful cast of three Desert Theatre League award winning actors: Donette Swain, Kurt Schauppner, and Abe Daniels.
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Sunset Blvd at Palm Canyon Theatre Theatre
Cult Musical Starred Pamla Vale Abramson
By: - Mar 28th, 2013Pamla Vale Abramson is a wonderful Norma Desmond. She captures the spirit and the essence of the early Hollywood era through use of her marvelous eyes, hand gestures, and actor’s instincts, all the while never losing sight, of her role in bringing a bygone era back, if just for just awhile.
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American Star!!! by Emmy Winners Theatre
Theater for the New City April 11 to 28
By: - Mar 27th, 2013Theater for the New City presents"American Star!!!," a new rockin', boppin' family musical by William Electric Black and Gary Schreiner, both Emmy-winners. The show whimsically examines teenagers' fascination with make-me-a-celebrity TV shows. Performances are April 11 to 28, Th-Sat at 8:00 PM and Sun at 3:00 PM. Running time is :90. Critics are invited on or after April 12.
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Anastasia Barzee Opens in NY April 18 Music
Barzee Sings Bacharach at The Metropolitan Room
By: - Mar 27th, 2013Broadway and television actress Anastasia Barzee premieres “Barzee Sings Bacharach†in a prime-time major engagement at The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, beginning April 18.
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Barrington Stage to Present Clybourne Park Opinion
Rehashing Regional Theatre
By: - Mar 27th, 2013Claybourne Park, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and 2012 Tony Award for Best Play is coming soon to a theatre near you. Here in the Berkshires from September 26 through October 13 at Barrington Stage in co production with Vermont's Dorset Theatre Festival where it will run from August 15-31. It begs questions about regional theatre companies focused on a short list of recycled Broadway and Off Broadway plays.
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2013 AICA Awards Fine Arts
Recognition from America's Art Critics
By: - Mar 26th, 2013The American Chapter of the International Society of Art Critics (AICA) announces its annual awards. There are a number of categories from site specific works to gallery and museum exhibitions.
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Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook Back Home in Indiana Music
Celebrating The American Songbook at Carmel’s Palladium
By: - Mar 26th, 2013During our meeting of the American Theatre Critic's Association we visited Carmel, Indiana for an evening of The Great American Songbook with its Ambassador, Michael Feinstein and guest artist, Barbara Cook. For the audience of 1,600 filling the Palladium it was a love fest.
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Terence Blanchard at Tanglewood June 28 Music
Performed in 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
By: - Mar 26th, 2013The Terence Blanchard Group, featuring New Orleans’ jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, joins the 2013 Tanglewood season line-up with a performance in Ozawa Hall on Friday, June 28, at 8 p.m. Mr. Blanchard first performed at Tanglewood during Jazz Fest on August 31, 2008.
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The Whipping Man at Indiana Repertory Theatre Theatre
Highlight of ATCA Meeting
By: - Mar 23rd, 2013Last night some forty members and guests of the American Theatre Critics Association were astonished by a riveting production of The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez. The Indiana Repertory Theatre production stars the astonishing David Alan Anderson with solid support from Tyler Jacob Rollinson and Andrew C. Ahrens.
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