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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Compagnie Kafig at Jacobs Pillow Dance Dance
French Choreographer Mourad Merzouki and Brazilian Dancers
By: - Aug 18th, 2012Last night Compagnie Kafig blew the roof off of the Ted Shawn Theatre in their second visit to Jacob’s Pillow Dance since 2001. The French choreographer based in Lyon, Mourad Merzouki, has worked with eleven Brazilian dancers to create a compelling blend of indigenous dance and high cultures. The audience was thrilled and astonished.
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Boston Artists Addison Parks and Jim Falck Fine Arts
Reflecting On Optical Origins
By: - Aug 17th, 2012I can think of two artists who are presently painting in the Boston area whose art radiates a gracious interest in the tradition of painting Jim Falck and Addison Parks. For them the tradition is the period of the beginning of the 20thc: The world of Matisse and Picasso which could be summed up as the pushing of paint with the dynamics of color and figure ground toward the simplicity of the written word.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Film Love Never Dies Film
Sequel To Phantom of the Opera
By: - Aug 17th, 2012Andrew Lloyd Webber has struggled with a sequel to his mega hit Phantom of the Opera. It has arrived in movie theatres in limited release as Love Never Dies. In the sequel, the creative team has the Phantom escaping the burning the Paris Opera House and has him resurfacing ten years later in Coney Island, New York where he begins anew his obsession of possessing the beautiful Christine Daae. The story has added new characters for its American setting, as well.
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Ebene Quartet at Ozawa Hall Music
Tanglewood Rethinks Jazz Programming
By: - Aug 17th, 2012Last night in Ozawa Hall the French Ebene Quartet offered a divided program that included two works by Mozart and Tchakovsky followed by a jazz set. It is a part of he overhaul of jazz programming at Tanglewood. On Monday, August 20 Wynton Marsalis and Christian McBride are featured. With Chick Corea and Gary Burton slated for Sunday, August 26.
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Bradley Cooper's Elephant Man Theatre
Broadway for the Fall 2014
By: - Aug 17th, 2012During a film premiere in Bradley Cooper was heard to say “We’re going to try to do it on Broadway next fall. We’re going to try to nail it down and do a limited run.†That was told to someone who told someone. It went viral on Facebook. That was originally slated for 2013. Now it has been moved forward to Fall 2014. The play was produced by Williamstown Theatre Festival under artistic director Jenny Gersten who has resigned but has programmed the 2014 season.
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God of Carnage at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre
Yasmina Reza Comedy in Hilarious Production
By: - Aug 16th, 2012Our California based theatre correspondent, Jack Lyons, compares the mid career Yasmina Reza to the master Neil Simon. Her Broadway hit is having a successful production at The Old Globe. He writes that " This quartette of performers doesn’t have to take a back seat to any ensemble that has previously performed the play."
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Alfred Molina in Red at Mark Taper Forum Theatre
Tony Winning Play Transfers to LA
By: - Aug 16th, 2012We welcome California based theatre critic, Jack Lyons, as a contributor to Berkshire Fine Arts. He reposts this report from Desert Local News on Alfred Molina who initiated the role of Mark Rothko in "Red" on Broadway. The play won a Tony Award and has been widely staged by regional theaters. This production at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles is notable for featuring the phenomenal Molina in a stunning performance.
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Bourne Legacy Reboots Ludlum Series Film
Three and Out or Four is a Bore
By: - Aug 15th, 2012It has been a decade since Matt Damon launched the Bourne franchise. That's a lifetime for an action hero. When Damon opted not to return to the role without director Paul Greengrass that left Universal Studios in a quandary. The Bourne series had been a cash cow. The studio spent $130 million in a relaunch with a parallel story and new lead in Jeremy Renner with Bourne writer Tony Gilroy elevated to director. It opened with a $40 million weekend laving $90 million to make its nut. Based on mixed reviews and tepid word of mouth that may not happen.
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Shakespeare & Company Reports Boffo Box Office Theatre
Sales Up 23% From This Time Last Year
By: - Aug 14th, 2012As Shakespeare & Company continues to celebrate its 35th Season of "Rebellion and Revolution" in the Berkshires, Artistic Director Tony Simotes and Managing Director Nicholas J. Puma, Jr. are pleased to announce that on Monday, August 6, the Company surpassed $1 million in ticket sales for the 2012-2013 performance season, the earliest date the Company has reached that figure in its 35 year history. This feat also puts the Company 22.5% ahead of its box office totals from last year’s performance season at this time.
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Jenny Gersten Part Two Theatre
Discussing Her Second Season at WTF
By: - Aug 13th, 2012In the second part of a dialogue with Jenny Gersten we compared and contrasted her uneven first season with the smooth sailing of her second one. While the first season drew mixed reviews and controversy its ambition proved to be a magnet for major artists wanting to work at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The success of this star studded season is a sanguine harbinger of more to come.
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Paris Commune at ArtsEmerson Theatre
Season Open Septrember 20
By: - Aug 13th, 2012ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage opens with the world premiere of The Civilians’ Paris Commune, a musical play that centers on a two month period in France during the Industrial Revolution, when workers take control of Paris in a popular uprising. Performances take place September 20 – 23, 2013 at The Paramount Center Mainstage (559 Washington Street in Boston’s Theatre District).
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See How They Run at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Vintage British Farce by Philip King
By: - Aug 13th, 2012Barrington Stage ends the Mainstage summer season with a vintage, 1943, British farce See How They Run. From beginning to hilarious end we never stopped laughing. This is a delightfully silly evening of theatre.
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Jenny Gersten Wraps Second Season at WTF Theatre
Nurtured on the Mother's Milk of Producing
By: - Aug 12th, 2012During a post mortem of her second season as artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival we discussed producing as inheriting the family business. Her earliest memories go back to two when she saw Two Gentleman of Verona, at the Public Theatre where her father, Bernard, worked until he was fired by Joe Papp in 1978. As a toddler, her Mom brought her on stage while taking a bow at Jacob's Pillow. In the first of this two part report we discuss a portrait of the artist as a young producer.
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Art Garfunkel Launches Tour and CD at the Clark Music
Poignant Performance Combined Old and New Songs
By: - Aug 12th, 2012Last night at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown the legendary singer/ songwriter, Art Garfunkel launched an 18 city tour that will end on December 1. It supports the issue of a double CD which is a retrospective of his career but includes new material. While he spoke to the audience of "giving my heart to you" he struggled to push a voice that he virtually lost just two years ago. An appreciative audience supported his courage and poetic humanity.
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Dance Heginbotham at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Mark Morris Veteran Formed Company a Year Ago
By: - Aug 11th, 2012After 14 years as a dancer with Mark Morris, a year ago, John Heginbotham formed his own company. It premiered at Jacob's Pillow as a part of the free Inside Out program last year. Now it has been invited on stage in the Dorris Duke Theatre, Based on a fresh, inventive and well received program the company will surely be audience favorites for return Pillow engagements.
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Barrington Stage Company Calendar Theatre
Events August Thorugh October 13
By: - Aug 11th, 2012While the official high season ends on Labor Day Barrington Stage will remain busy through the fall shoulder season. Highlights include the return of Dr. Ruth and the much anticipated production of Lord of the Flies.
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WHADDAHBLOODCLOT!!! by Katori Hall Theatre
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Aug 10th, 2012There are about 60 documented cases of Foreign Language Syndrome. The first occurred in 1941 when a Norwegian woman, during the Nazi occupation, suddenly spoke with a German accent. One may imagine the complications. In Katori Hall's new comedy, as the result of a stroke, a New York society woman wakes up with a Jamaican accent. Oh my.
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Lyric Stage Announces Season Theatre
Mikado Opens September 9
By: - Aug 08th, 2012Lyric Stage in Boston announces its season for 2012-2013. The Mikado opens on September 9 with the perennial music of Gilbert and Sullivan. Another musical, On the Town by Leonard Bernstein closes Lyric on June 8. Sandwiched in between is a heady mix of drama and comedy.
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Chris Botti Scorches a Soaked Tanglewood Music
Richly Varied Two Hour Set in Ozawa Hall
By: - Aug 07th, 2012Just before Chris Botti came on stage for a two hour performace at Ozawa Hall there was a brief but ferocious downpour that had hundreds of fans on the lawn scurrying of shelter. The downpour soaked some fans but failed to dampen spirits of a stunning, eclectic and thoroughly entertaining evening with one of our greatest living artists.
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Edith a Premiere by Kelley Masterson in Stockbridge Theatre
From First Lady to Madam President
By: - Aug 05th, 2012When Woodrow Wilson was recovering from a stroke by denying access to his bedroom and failing to publicly announce his condition, his wife, Edith, for a crucial period of six weeks was virtually President of the United States. This new play by Kelly Masterson conflates 75% fact and 25% fiction to present a benign, revisionist take on a love story with global implications.
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Royal Winnipeg Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Triumphant Return After Fifty Years
By: - Aug 04th, 2012Amazingly, it has been fifty years since the last visit of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet to Jacob's Pillow. The classical ballet company demonstrated its diversity during a two hour program in three segments- In Tandem, Moonlight Sonata, and Carmina Burana. For most audience members it was a highlight of Pillow's 80th season.
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Rethinking Turgenev’s A Month in the Country at Williamstown Theatre
New Concept and Translation Directed by Richard Nelson
By: - Aug 03rd, 2012The mid 1850s play A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev influenced Chekhov, who convinced Stanislavsky to produce it. Literally, lost in translation, the masterpiece of modernism has rarely been produced. Not just for awkward scripts but for a misunderstanding of the main character Natalya. While mostly played by women in their fifties, as Richard Nelson discovered, Turgeney intended her as 29. A radical production with a new translation by Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is the third and final Main Stage presentation of the summer long Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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The North Pool By Rajiv Joseph Theatre
East Coast Premiere at Barrington Stage
By: - Jul 30th, 2012Rajiv Joseph is best know for the Broadway production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. The play, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, starred Robin Williams as the Tiger. Barrington Stage is presenting the East Coast premiere of his two person, one act play The North Pool.
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Bill T. Jones Celebrates John Cage Centennial Dance
Story/ Time at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Jul 29th, 2012Five years ago, Bill T. Jones (born 1952), one of the most successful and celebrated dancers and choreographers of his generation, with more than 100 works created for the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company (founded in 1982), retired from performing. He continues to choreograph for the company. This week he was back on stage for a 2012 work Story/ Time.
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Diva Olympia Dukakis as Prospera in The Tempest Theatre
A Clash of the Titans through August 19
By: - Jul 28th, 2012There are two versions of Shakespeare's enigmatic, evocative, surreal last play on stage at Shakespeare & Company through August 19. There is The Tempest as played for laughs by director Tony Simotes and then the imperious, autocratic Tempest as performed by the legendary Olympia Dukakis. It is a raucous highlight of a stunning season of theatre in the Berkshires.
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