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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Adams Updates The Salem Witch Trials at CATF Theatre
A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World
By: - Jul 24th, 2013With A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World it seems that Liz Duffy Adams has taken on the daunting challenge of a sequel to Arthur Miller's classic The Crucible. The real life adolescent hysterics who sent the innocent to the gallows, Abigail Williams and Mercy Lewis, reconnect with widely divergent views a decade later. The new play is a part of the 23rd annual Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in San Diego Architecture
Stoppard's Play at Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival
By: - Jul 24th, 2013In “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadâ€, Tom Stoppard’s absurdist take on the Bard’s masterpiece “Hamletâ€, has been hailed as a master work in itself, with “Hapgood†next, followed by the recent multiple Tony winning play “The Coast of Utopiaâ€.
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Nicholas Martin’s Gorgeous Pygmalion at WTF Theatre
Stars Robert Sean Leonard and Heather Lind in Shaw’s Masterpiece
By: - Jul 24th, 2013As a strong willed, crafty and independent guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle sold flowers to support herself. As a refined lady, transformed through a wager between the linguists Professor Henry Higgins and his colleague Colonel Pickering, in order to survive in circa 1913 London, she is forced to sell herself. As Shaw wrote his feminist inspired play there was no happy ending. Few if any directors have adhered to his intent which infuriated Shaw. In this stunning Williamstown production director Nicholas Martin provides a new twist,.
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U.S. House Slashes NEA Budget by Half Opinion
Proposes Cut of $71 Million to 1974 Level
By: - Jul 24th, 2013Today, the U.S House of Representatives Interior Appropriations Subcommittee approved its initial FY 2014 funding legislation, which includes a proposed cut of $71 million to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This would bring funding of the NEA down to $75 million, a level not seen since 1974! That's a national arts funding level for a Third World nation.
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Sam Shephard's Heartless at CATF Theatre
Triage in West Virginia
By: - Jul 23rd, 2013Sam Shephard's play Heartless had its 2012 premiere at Signature Theatre in New York City. It's getting a rewrite in a second production at Contemporary American Theatre Festival in West Virginia. While it has familiar Shepardesque aspects is that enough to breath life back into a surreal and enervating play?
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More Tanglewood Withdrawals This Weekend Music
Programs Continued as Scheduled with Substitutes
By: - Jul 23rd, 2013Because of a freak accident at home yesterday the BSO announced that newly appointed conductor, Andris Nelsons, will not be able to make his only Tanglewood appearance this season. Ironically this is an all too vivid reminder of the ongoing cancellations of James Levine. Today the other shoe dropped with more cancellations and substitutions of the pending programs this weekend.
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Jane Martin’s Riveting H2O at CATF Theatre
Intriguing Drama by Mysterious Playwright
By: - Jul 23rd, 2013Of the five plays of the 23rd Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, through July 28, the most buzz and impossible to get ticket, is generated by the elusive Jane Martin’s H2O.
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Contemporary American Theatre Festival Theatre
West Virginina Meeting of American Theatre Critics Association
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013The 23rd annual Contemporary American Theatre Festival opened on July 5 and ends on July 28 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Last week some 75 members and guests of the American Theatre Critics Association met in Shepherdstown to view and discuss five new plays. During a brutal national heat wave there was a busy schedule of performances, meetings, lectures, panel discussions, banquets and visits to surrounding Civil War sites. It was an intense and richly informative experience.
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Andris Nelsons Withdraws from Tanglewood Music
New BSO Director Suffers Concussion
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013One of the most anticipated Tanglewood concerts this summer was the only scheduled appearance of the newly appointed BSO director Andris Nelsons. Accordingly his conducting Verdi Requiem on July 27 has been cancelled. He was scheduled to meet with the media on Friday. The concert will be presented with a yet to be announced guest conductor.
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Modern Terrorism by Jon Kern in West Va. Theatre
Contemporary American Theatre Festival to July 28
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013Jon Kern, a writer for The Simpsons, was inspired by the aborted bombing attempt in Time Square to create the comedy Modern Terrorism: Or They Who Want to Kills Us and How We Learn to Love Them. This darkest of comedies attempts to humanize and humorize a suicide bomber avenging American drone strikes and attacks on Islamic citizens.
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Summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fine Arts
Visiting Modern and Contemporary Galleries
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013The artist Martin Mugar recently visited the modern and contemporary galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He discusses the challenge of emergring from the shadow of the renowned artists on view. As well as releasing the muse of his own limitations.
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Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend Music
Downtown Lee July 25-28
By: - Jul 16th, 2013The jazz weekend kicks off at 6pm on Thursday, July 25 with the screening of “A Life in E Flat,†a biographical profile of the legendary alto saxophonist, NEA Jazz Master and 4-time Grammy winner Phil Woods. Through a special arrangement with Jazzed Media, producers of jazz films and CDs, the screening at the Lee Library on Main Street is free and open to the public.
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Spice Dragon in Pittsfield Food
Asian Confusion Food
By: - Jul 15th, 2013With a winning combination of Asian Fusion food, ambiance, and moderate prices Spice Dragon in Pittsfield is a popular destination. Over several visits, however, the food and service has been inconsistent. Busy nights stretch the limits of understaffed and inexperienced front of house and an ability to get food to tables in a timely manner. In Pittsfield, however, there isn't much competition for dining on this level.
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Merchant of Venice at Old Globe Theatre
Summer Shakespeare Festival in San Diego
By: - Jul 15th, 2013San Diego's Old Globe annual Shakespeare Summer Theatre Festival in the Lowell Davies Outdoor Theatre is in full sway. The second production is the ambivalent and oft misinterpreted story “The Merchant of Veniceâ€, deftly directed by Adrian Noble. Scholars for centuries have debated the true meaning of the Bard’s play.
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MediTerra in North Adams Food
Authentic Turkish Delight
By: - Jul 14th, 2013It is difficult to find authentic international cuisine in the Berkshires. Owner Fahri Kakakaya has recruited a fellow Turk, Ahmet Alcay, as chef and relaunched the large space on Main Street in North Adams as Medi-Terra, American Mediterranean Bistro. There are Italian items on the menu but we opted to try the superb and unique Turkish Cuisine. We strongly recommend this for a winning combination of tasty, exotic flavors, affordable prices and a comfortable, uncrowded ambiance. Try it for salad and sandwiches at lunch or come back for a leisurely dinner with beer and wine.
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A Typical WTF Press Conference? Theatre
Actors are People Too
By: - Jul 13th, 2013The Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) season is in high gear. We attended the first WTF press conference to cover the next two productions of 'Pygmalion' by George Bernard Shaw and Johnny Baseball, the Boston Red Sox story, now a musical. It turned out to be a lively event!
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Rocco Sisto in Rarely Produced Richard II Theatre
Launching a S&Co. Tetraology of Four History Plays
By: - Jul 13th, 2013Over the next four years Shakespeare & Company will present a tetralogy of four history plays. The cycle begins this season with Richard II directed by Timothy Douglas and starring Rocco Sisto. Next year Johnathan Epstein will directed Henry IV.
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Mass MoCA Opens Kiefer Building September 27 Fine Arts
Work by German Master on View for 15 Years
By: - Jul 12th, 2013Initially Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson denied that there would be a new Kiefer Building. We reported it anyway ages ago. Thompson confirmed it during a recent interview and now its official as reported today in the Berkshire Eagle. The fun begins on September 27.
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Kate Burton in Stoppard’s Riveting Hapgood Theatre
Quantum Mechanics of the Spy Game
By: - Jul 12th, 2013I think I saw a great production of Tom Stoppard's Hapgood, starring Kate Burton at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. But then there's the Uncertainty Principle. Whether one enjoys this show depends upon whether you view it from a Newtonian or Quantum Mechanics point of view. It may or may not be the best drama of the Berkshire season. In a Stoppardesque sense.
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Batter Up for Johnny Baseball at Williamstown Theatre
Controversial ART Musical Steals Second Base
By: - Jul 11th, 2013If shows are not instant hits in regional theaters they rarely get a second chance. It is especially difficult to develop musicals. Johnny Baseball, a musical about the Boston Red Sox and the Curse of the Bambino, opened at American Repertory Theatre in June, 2010. The idea started in 2003 and development, with six new songs and other changes continues. It opens on July 24 at Williamstown Theatre Festival. During a recent press conference we asked about love/ hate relationships which resulted in Globe critic Louise Kennedy losing her job in reaction to her Johnny Baseball review.
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National Arts Club Settles with The James Group Opinion
Former Director Aldon James and Associates Ousted
By: - Jul 10th, 2013Several years ago, after decades of abuse of authority for the personal gain of its former director O. Aldon James his twin brother and associates, the National Arts Club in New York's Gramercy Park has enjoyed its day in court. James and his associates occupied considerable residential and storage space, filled with trash and flea market items, at below market rates. They have been ordered to pay back $900,000 and vacate their apartments by July 31.
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Robert Sean Leonard in WTF's Pygmalion Theatre
Talks About Life After Dr. Wilson on House
By: - Jul 10th, 2013Robert Sean Leonard appeared as Dr. Wilson the best friend of the curmudgeon Hugh Laurie's Dr. House from 2004 to 2012. They shot 175 episodes of the TV series House. That left Leonard the financial freedom to pick and choose roles in theatre. From July 17 to 27 he stars at Williamstown Theatre Festival as Professor Henry Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion directed by Nicholas Martin. The production, with changes, originated at the Old Globe in San Diego.
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Summer Shakespeare in San Diego Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Old Globe
By: - Jul 10th, 2013It is fitting that “Midsummer…â€, creatively directed by Ian Talbot, be the selection to kick off the 2013 Old Globe’s summer festival season. It’s one of Shakespeare’s most enduring comedies filled with oddball characters and silly liaisons and situations.
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Foreign Affairs – at Berliner Festspiele Theatre
Comments and Thoughts
By: - Jul 09th, 2013The Berliner Festspiele 2013 continue: From June 27 to July 14 with an array of performances etc. under the title: 'Foreign Affairs.' Theatre, music, dance, video, multi- and interdisciplinary works to actively draw in the public have been scheduled. Foreign, as in new and cutting edge - and foreign, as in international companies and artists, are presented.
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Broadway in the Berkshires Theatre
Stars Shine in Benefit for Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jul 09th, 2013Broadway in the Berkshires, produced by Deborah Grausman and hosted by John Douglas Thompson, was presented as a benefit for the Education and Training programs of Shakespeare & Company. Singer and actor Grausman, appearing this summer in Master Class, was able to call in favors from her many and diverse Broadway, Off Broadway and S & Co. colleagues. Over 300 tickets were sold and upwards of 75 Shakespeare & Company artists and other special guests were also in attendance. The benefit raised $110, 000.
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