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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The Old Mezzo by Susan Dworkin Theatre
WAM Premiere Oct. 12-28 at Berkshire Museum
By: - Sep 04th, 2012WAM Theatre’s October 12-28 World Premiere production of The Old Mezzo by Berkshire based playwright Susan Dworkin will feature professional actors from Berkshire County and the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, the Capital Region of Upstate NY and beyond. It will be presented at the Berkshire Museum.
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Liza Minnelli & Michael Feinstein at Tanglewood Music
American Songbook With Betty Buckley and Christine Ebersole
By: - Sep 03rd, 2012A lady a few rows in front of us was waving her cane, literally, in time to the music of Michael Feinstein's American Songbook. Later she joined him on stage for a duet of "New York New York." Incredibly, Liza Minnelli made a surprise appearance during the last day of the Tanglewood season. Tony winners Betty Buckley and Christine Ebersole also helped to bring the curtain down on another Tanglewood season.
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Susan Wissler Describes The Mount's Strong Season Word
Reducing Debt and Quadruple Programming
By: - Sep 02nd, 2012Susan Wissler, director of Edith Wharton's estate The Mount, in Lenox, discusses reducing debt from $9 million to under $4 million. In the past three years programming has quadrupled with an ambition to run year round. Some $750,000 has been raised to renovate The Stable as a performance, office and conference center. The September Vogue has an 18 page spread shot at The Mount by Annie Liebovitz. The second WordFest returns September 14 to 16.
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David Cole at New York's Dodge Gallery Fine Arts
Launches Season on September 8
By: - Sep 01st, 2012In his most recent body of work at New York's Dodge Gallery, David Cole navigates memory, history, national identity and the interlocking resonance of each. Cole's protean craftsmanship gives voice to both a scholarly knowledge of this nation's past and a conscientious understanding of what it means to be an American today.
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Julee Holcombe and Charles Teenie Harris Photography
Photography Exhibitions at Kayafas Gallery Open September 7
By: - Sep 01st, 2012Boston's renowned Gallery Kayafas opens its season on September 7 with tandem exhibitions by Julee Holcombe and Charles "Teenie" Harris. Holcombe's large scale photographs from her Homo Bulla series, architectural and figurative scapes, are digital collages of layer upon layer of assembled resonant images from many different places. A collection of rare Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908- 1998) photographs from his family's archive is on view before they are disseminated.
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North Adams: Art About Town, DownStreet Fine Arts
Painting the City Red White and Blue
By: - Aug 31st, 2012There were volunteers assisting in another Art About Town project to paint colorful, geometric patterns on the streets of North Adams. It was a community celebration of the pop up galleries of the annual summer long DownStreet. There was a lot to see and do for children and art lovers of all ages.
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Broadway Opening Night Schedule Theatre
Season Starts September 10 with Chaplin
By: - Aug 30th, 2012It's time to mark your calendars and order tickets. We have the list of Broadway openings from Chaplin on September 10 through Jekyll and Hyde in April. Fasten your seat belts its bound to be a bumpy ride.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Theatre
Live in HD at the Clark September 6
By: - Aug 30th, 2012On Thursday, September 6, at 2:00 pm, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, captured live in HD from London’s National Theatre. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the novel of the same title by Mark Haddon and adapted by Simon Stephens, opens with Christopher, fifteen years old, standing beside Mrs. Shears’s dead dog, Wellington, at seven minutes after midnight.
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The King Stag at the Mount Theatre
Main Street Stage Production Sept. 23
By: - Aug 30th, 2012A performance of The King Stag by Main Street Stage will be held at The Mount in Lenox on Sunday September 23rd at 11 a.m. The show is free and open to the public.
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Close Encounters with Music at the Mahaiwe Music
Great Barrington Season Launches Oct. 20
By: - Aug 30th, 2012Close Encounters With Music introduces grand prize winners of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition and Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in their Berkshire debuts; presents one of the preeminent Baroque ensembles, Tragicomedia, to usher in the holiday season; and adds another notch on its belt of successful commissioning projects with a new work by American composer Robert Beaser, who has written for Glimmerglass and New York City Opera.
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Les 7 doigts de la main at ArtsEmerson Theatre
Returns Sept. 27 to Oct. 7 at Cutler Majestic Theatre
By: - Aug 30th, 2012The third season of acclaimed international theatre programming by ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage continues with what is quickly becoming a beloved Boston tradition - the return of Montreal-based high-energy movement artists Les 7 doigts de la main, with the Boston premiere of their newest show, Sequence 8.
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American Theatre Wing Announces Awards Theatre
2012 National Theatre Company Grants
By: - Aug 29th, 2012The American Theatre Wing has announced the recipients of its 2012 National Theatre Company Grants. This year’s recipients are: Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Somerville, Massachusetts), ArtsWest (Seattle, Washington), Know Theatre of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio), NC Stage Company (Asheville, North Carolina), The New Jersey Repertory Company (Long Branch, New Jersey), CityRep (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), The Rogue Theatre (Tucson, Arizona), The Play Company (New York City, New York), The Theatre @ Boston Court (Pasadena, California), and Upstream Theater (St. Louis, Missouri).
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John Douglas Thompson on Eugene O’Neill: Two Theatre
Reflecting on Playing Brutus Jones and Joe Mott
By: - Aug 28th, 2012Currently John Douglas Thompson is performing a one man show with three characters Satchmo at the Waldorf a work in progress by playwright Terry Teachout. On a Monday break, following a weekend of five performances at Shakespeare & Company, we met to edit the second and final part of a dialogue about performing roles in the plays of Eugene O'Neill. In June we saw him play Joe Mott in the Chicago production of Iceman Cometh at the Goodman Theatre. Some time back we saw him play The Emperor Jones in New York.
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Chick Corea & Gary Burton at Tanglewood Music
Hot House New CD of Standards
By: - Aug 27th, 2012After 40 years of collaborations pianist Chick Corea and vibraphone player Gary Burton are about to release their sixth CD. Hot House is an album of the standards they loved and grew up on. For a nearly sold out gig in Ozawa Hall, with nearly as many outside on the lawn, they played a set of duets followed by one with the Harlem String Quartet.
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Satchmo at the Waldorf at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
John Douglas Thompson Solos in Terry Teachout Play
By: - Aug 25th, 2012In 1964 Louis Armstrong knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts with the hit "Hello Dolly." It was a compelling answer to a New York Times critic who pronounced him washed up. The bug eyed, grimacing, clowning, handkerchief waving Satchmo relaunched a career as the first super star in jazz. . The superb Terry Teachout play, Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, catches him after the gig in his dressing room just months before he died in 1971.
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Met Live in HD Resumes Oct. 13 Music
Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore at the Clark
By: - Aug 24th, 2012The Met: Live in HD returns to the Clark this fall with extraordinary stars, breathtaking music, and visionary interpretations by today’s most celebrated directors and conductors. This Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series features 12 live transmissions in the Clark’s auditorium, beginning October 13 with L’Elisir D’Amore and continuing with Otello (October 27), Tempest (November 10), Clemenza di Tito (December 1), Un Ballo in Maschera (December 8), Aida (December 15), Les Troyens (January 5), Maria Stuarda (January 19), Rigoletto (February 16), Parisfal (March 2), Francesca da Rimini (March 16) and Giulio Cesare(April 27).
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Kenny Rogers at the Colonial Sept. 27 Music
The Gambler To Serende Berkshire Fans
By: - Aug 24th, 2012Kenny Rogers will serenade audiences with country classics and contemporaries at The Colonial Theatre on September 27 at 8pm. Rogers' Greatest Hits album has sold over 24 million copies worldwide to date. He is the Recording Industry Association of America's eighth best selling male artist of all time with one Diamond album, 19 Platinum albums and 31 Gold albums.
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39 Steps at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Hichcock Inspired Drama Sept. 22 to Nov. 4
By: - Aug 24th, 2012An ingenious thriller, the ultimate murder mystery, The 39 Steps has it all. Shakespeare & Company opens the 2012-2013 Fall & Winter season with this hilarious adaptation of John Buchan’s novel, which also draws inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film. Featuring a seasoned ensemble including Elizabeth Aspenlieder (Bad Dates), Jason Asprey (Parasite Drag), David Joseph (The Tempest), and Josh Aaron McCabe (Hound of the Baskervilles), The 39 Steps offers an intriguing, sidesplitting evening or afternoon at the theatre. The 39 Steps runs from September 22 through November 4 in S&Co.’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.
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Homer’s Illiad at La Jolla Playhouse Theatre
A Spellbinding Triumph!
By: - Aug 22nd, 2012The La Jolla Playhouse (LJP) was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. A remarkable play based on Homer’s ancient epic “The Illiad†has just opened. The Playhouse has created twenty-two productions over the years that have transferred to Broadway, earning thirty-five Tony Awards in the process. In the last few years their transfer productions have captured four Best Musical or Best Play Tony Awards; the last in 2008 with “Memphis.â€
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Marsalis and McBride Ignite Ozawa Hall Music
Historic Return of Jazz Masters to Tanglewood
By: - Aug 21st, 2012Both nine time Grammy winner, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis leading his Quintet, and renowned bass player Christian McBride with a trio, commented warmly on the honor of returning to Tanglewood. But, for both, not in many years. The evening that ended at 11 PM closed in a jam session with all of the musicians trading riffs.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Drew 41,000 Theatre
58Th Season Closes for Renowned Festival
By: - Aug 20th, 2012Williamstown Theatre Festival supported the Berkshires community by bringing nearly 41,000 audience members from 44 states and 6 countries while they attended the work of 401 members of the WTF Company including staff, apprentices, and artists!
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Joffrey Ballet at Jacob's Pillow Dance
Sold Out Event Ends Season
By: - Aug 20th, 2012The Joffrey Ballet, one of America’s pioneering ballet companies of the 20th century, makes a rare East Coast appearance to conclude the Jacob’s Pillow 80th Anniversary Season August 22–26. The Joffrey Ballet returns for the first time since its high-profile appearances at the Pillow in the 1950s and 60s, presenting an impressive program that features Taiwanese-American choreographer Edwaard Liang’s Age of Innocence, Russian choreographer Yuri Possokhov’s Bells, and the world premiere of Son of Chamber Symphony by Stanton Welch, Artistic Director of Houston Ballet.
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Saratoga: A Day At The Races Word
And Behind the Scenes
By: - Aug 19th, 2012We spent a fabulous day at the Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, New York, with our guide Don George, who has lived half of his life with horses as owner and trainer. 50 plus photos accompany the article, a visual story.
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Brace Yourself by David Epstein Theatre
World Premiere for Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Aug 19th, 2012The Berkshire Theatre Group is presenting the world premiere of Brace Yourself a family comedy set on Fire Island by David Epstein. In the face of an approaching hurricane Sunny (Jill Eikenberry) is planning the mega wedding that her daughter Nina (Tara Franklin) really doesn't want. While the comedy delighted the audience I found it as breezy as that storm that rode out to sea.
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Dance in August - Berlin, Germany Dance
Tanz im August, 10 – 25, 2012
By: - Aug 18th, 2012BFA welcomes a new contributor, Dr. Angelika Jansen, who is reporting here about a current Dance Festival, “Dance in August,†from Berlin, now in its 24th year. Various cultural organizations are sponsoring the performances all over the city. The guiding theme is based on the relationship of language and movement in the digital age.
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