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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A Dialogue with Creator/ Director Mary Zimmerman Theatre
Bringing Jungle Book from Chicago to Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Sep 03rd, 2013Launching the fall season of Boston's Huntington Theatre Company the renowned director and creator Mary Zimmerman returns with a new musical adapted from Kipling's The Jungle Book. Previously she directed the Leonard Bernstein musical Candide. Adding to an extensive prior dialogue we corresponded with Zimmerman about the new production which may be New York bound.
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Shakespeare & Company Beauty Queens Two Theatre
Risk Taking Based on a 35 Year Legacy
By: - Sep 02nd, 2013There has been considerable risk taking in the 2013 season programmed by Shakespeare & Company artistic director Tony Simotes. It has combined rarely produced Shakespeare plays as well as tough works by Stoppard and Brecht. The season ends on September 15 with arguably the most controversial play of the Berkshire season Martin McDonagh's brutal dark comedy The Beauty Queen of Leenane. This is part two of a discussion with its cast members Tina Packer, Elizabeth Aspenlieder, David Sedgwick and Edmund Donovan.
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‘Tanz im August’ in Berlin Dance
A Fantastic 25th Season
By: - Sep 02nd, 2013Germany’s most celebrated Contemporary Dance Festival just closed after presenting for two weeks choreographers and companies from around the globe. All performed to sold out houses and on public stages. Where is contemporary dance heading? Berlin may have given many indications.
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Yvonne Andersen Sun Gallery Co-Founder Fine Arts
Recalling Film and Animation Programming in Provincetown
By: - Sep 02nd, 2013As research for “Pioneers from Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism†an exhibition focused on the emergence of a largely misunderstood movement in the 1950s we interviewed Sun Gallery co-founder Yvonne Andersen. In response to our coverage she has sent additional notes of great historical interest.
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Harry Connick, Jr. at Tanglewood Music
Blustery Last Night in the Shed
By: - Sep 01st, 2013With thunder and lightning it rained cats and dogs for the Shed performance of Harry Connick, Jr. at Tanglewood. We managed to stay sky high and bone dry through the best non classical performance of the season. Connick charmed the audience with the full range of his vast musical talent. He sang several songs from the new CD Every Man Should Know his 30th and 7th that he entirely composed and arranged.
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Anna Christie at Berkshire Theatre Group Theatre
O’Neill Play Washes Up in Stockbridge
By: - Aug 30th, 2013The Berkshire Theatre Group production of Eugene O'Neill's 1921 play Anna Christie has been given an extreme makeover by Pulitzer prize winning director David Auburn. The play has been condensed from four acts to two with the cast cut from ten to five characters. With these drastic reductions, while clear and cohesive, Auburn serves the steak without the sizzle.
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Meeting with the Beauty Queens of Leenane Theatre
Rocking the Boat at Shakespeare & Company Part One
By: - Aug 29th, 2013Tina Packer has been quoted in the media that she can't wait for the end of the run of Beauty Queen of Leenane at Shakespeare & Company on September 15. Audiences and critics agree that it is the most powerful and harrowing production of the Berkshire season. In part one of a meeting with the cast Packer exploded about why she hates the character she has been roped into portraying. Her Mag Folan reminds her of the two mother in laws she hated.
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Barbiere at Hubbard Hall Music
Rossini Opera an Unqualified Success
By: - Aug 29th, 2013Rossini's Barber of Seville has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has held its position as a masterpiece of musical comedy for 200 years. It is one of the few operas which still has its talons in popular culture, with Figaro resonating in modern sensibilities as the everyman who pulls all the strings. Hubbard Hall Opera Theater does great justice to the work. .
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Trial by Jury at Hubbard Hall Music
Short but Sweet
By: - Aug 29th, 2013Part musical, part opera, this production is a good blend of both, featuring hilarious dance numbers and strong voices that have no need of amplification to be heard. Trial by Jury is the “second-stage†show in this summer’s line-up at Hubbard Hall.
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Film Night at Tanglewood Music
John Williams with Audra McDonald and David Newman
By: - Aug 25th, 2013For the annual Film Night at Tanglewood for the first half of the program John Williams passed the baton to David Newman the son of the legendary Alfred Newman. There were six songs and an encore by guest artist and Tony winner Audra McDonald. One of the largest audiences of the season enjoyed the broadly appealing program.
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Martha Graham Company at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Program Ends 81st Season in Becket
By: - Aug 24th, 2013For the final performances of the Jacob's Pillow 81st season we were presented with the full gamut of the iconic Martha Graham Company. The program was bracketed with her own works also including variations of her solo, Lamentations, and a galvanic, pathos inducing commissioned work Rust exploring torture and terrorism. From 1948 the program began with her Diversion of Angels from 1948 and ended with the visceral Rite of Spring which, at 89, she created in 1984.
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Beauty Queen of Leenane at S&Co. Theatre
Brutal Play by Martin McDonagh Powerfully Presented
By: - Aug 23rd, 2013The Irish playwright Martin McDonagh is a brutal bastard to actors and the suffering audience. The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Shakespeare & Company is an evening of pure misery. But if you love great theatre don't miss four truly magnificent performances. It is also the first time that a national treasure, Tina Packer, has shared a stage with the phenomenal Elizabeth Aspenlieder.
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Pork with Sauerkraut, Beer and Tarragon Food
Cooking with Fresh Summer Herbs
By: - Aug 22nd, 2013With an abundance of fresh herbs in the garden there was an urge to make a favorite winter pork recipe. But with fresh tarragon a key ingredient. This is an easy, foolproof, quick and delicious meal.
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Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah Theatre
Barrington Stage Co-Premiere by Mark St. Germain
By: - Aug 22nd, 2013With two of the three original cast members- Joey Collins as F.Scott Fitzgerald and Angela Pierce as studio representative Miss Evelyn Montaigne, the play commissioned and premiered by the Contemporary American Theatre Festival has transferred from Shepherdstown, West Virginia to Barrington Stage. With the addition of Ted Koch as Hemingway "Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah" has been written and directed by Mark Saint Germain. It is being staged in the theatre which has been named for him.
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John Douglas Thompson on Brecht Theatre
Performing with Olympia Dukakis in Mother Courage
By: - Aug 21st, 2013This summer at Shakespeare & Company John Douglas Thompson has performed the supporting role of The Cook to have the chance to work with the 82--year-old Olympia Dukakis in Brecht's Mother Courage. This is a revised version of the original posting with further reflection on the unique challenges of performing a play by Brecht.
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Figurative Expressionism in Provincetown Fine Arts
PAAM Exhibition Through September 2
By: - Aug 21st, 2013Following World War II the matrix of global contemporary art shifted from Paris to New York with the development of abstract expressionism as the leading movement of contemporary art of that era. During the 1950s there was much speculation about a Return to the Figure. Young artists who flocked to Provincetown to study with Hans Hofmann and Henry Hensche explored a synthesis through Figurative Expressionism. A number of these artists showed with Sun Gallery in Provincetown and Hansa Gallery in New York. The exhibition "Pioneers from Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism" curated by Adam Zucker, Co-curator, Stephanie DeTroy focuses on this important movement.
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John Douglas Thompson Cooks in Lenox Theatre
Booked for Productions Through 2015
By: - Aug 19th, 2013Since seeing John Douglas Thompson in Othello at Shakespeare & Company in 2008 we have tried to see and talk about all of his performances. We met for lunch in Pittsfield to catch up on what will be a fully booked schedule of plays through January , 2015. This entails two Broadway plays and an Off Broadway production.. Thompson is widely regarded as among the foremost theatrical actors of his generation. This is part one of the latest dialogue.
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Wendy Whelan at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
World Premiere of Restless Creature
By: - Aug 18th, 2013Tall, slender and as tightly wound as a Swiss watch the body of Wendy Whelan, a dancer with the New York City Ballet since 1986, and principal dancer since 1991, is a precision instrument. Working with four male choreographers and partners Jacob's Pillow presented the world premiere of Restless Creature. She will tour with the new production for the coming months with a performance in Boston in March.
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Michael Feinstein and Friends at Tanglewood Music
Pops and The Great American Songbook
By: - Aug 17th, 2013Michael Feinstein brought his Great American Songbook to Tanglewood in what is evolving as an annual guest appearance with Keith Lockhart and Pops. His guests included Tony winner Faith Prince and Cheyenne Jackson. It was a chilly August evening with a hint of Fall and ultra cool swinging music.
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La Otra Orilla U.S. Debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Deconstructed Conceptual Flamenco
By: - Aug 16th, 2013While rooted in Spain, as a tradition of music and dance flamenco is performed by companies all around the globe. This is the first American appearance by the experimental Montreal based group La Otra Orill. At Jacobs's Pillow Dance Festival it features the co-artistic directors, solo dancer Myriam Allard and singer, Hedi Garja. They are accompanied by three musicians.
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Jenny Gersten Solidifies WTF Theatre
Part Two Balancing Roles as CEO and Artistic Director
By: - Aug 16th, 2013As a producer, rather than director or actor, as was the case in recent years, Jenny Gersten approaches being artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival as a full time, year round job. Her role as CEO is as important to her as making the artistic decisions of planning a season. She describes enjoying fundraising and marketing because it is driven by her passion for one of America's most renowned regional theatre companies,
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Jenny Gersten on Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Third Season Charms
By: - Aug 14th, 2013For her third season as artistic director of the Williamstown Theater Festival Jenny Gersten produced an amazing three musicals in a program of seven productions. Bridges of Madison County opens on Broadway in January but Gersten insists her mandate is to create shows for Williamstown. We met to discuss the season which ends this weekend. This is part one of that dialogue.
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Orange is the New Black by Netflix Television
Hit Prison Series To Return for Season Two
By: - Aug 13th, 2013Three's a charm with Orange Is the New Black the third mini series created by Netflix. All 13 episodes were released on July 11 resulting in an orgy for fanatical viewers. There was a cliff hanger ending followed by the good news that Piper and her inmates will be back next year with season two. Initially we thought of Piper as a good girl who made a bad mistake. Gradually she is revealed as a bad girl who has to make good. Or just survive her 15 month sentence.
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Much Ado About Nothing at Barrington Stage Theatre
Julianne Boyd’s First Shakespeare Soars
By: - Aug 12th, 2013Following On the Town and the Chosen Barrington Stage ends its main stage season with yet another run away hit. Julianne Boyd charms and delights as producer/ director of the first ever attempt at Shakespeare his iconic comedy Much Ado Nothing. Barrington's mainstays Christopher Innvar and Gretchen Egolf soar to new heights as the feisty lovers Benedick and Beatrice. On every level from sets to costumes this is a gorgeous and hilarious seasonal treat.
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Pesto Pasta Food
Fresh Summer Herbs
By: - Aug 11th, 2013From now until frost we are enjoying fresh pesto made with basil from our thriving herb garden. With the right ingredients it's easy to make and stash in the freezer for a fine meal on a gloomy winter night.
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