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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Madama Butterfly at Boston Lyric Opera Music
Puccini Classic Nov. 2-11
By: - Oct 04th, 2012Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) opens its 2012/13 Season with a new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Nov. 2 – 11, 2012, starring soprano Yunah Lee in her BLO debut in her signature role of Cio-Cio San. Performances take place at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre (265 Tremont St., Boston.. The production stars soprano Yunah Lee in her BLO debut as Cio-Cio San, a role for which she has received widespread critical acclaim and which Opera News recently declared her “signature role.â€
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Mad Jack's Barbecue in Pittsfield Food
Move to North Street a Culinary Setback
By: - Oct 03rd, 2012A year ago the Pit Bulls rated the hole in the wall rib joint Mad Jack's the best in the Berkshires for barbecue. Since then, there has been a move from a small space on Frenn Street to a major venue next to the upscale Spice Dragon on North Street. The change to a larger venue with increased overhead has resulted in a loss of focus on the quality of food and service. This review was the result of several disappointing visits.
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Williamstown Film Festival's 14th Season Film
Hollywood in the Berkshires October 17 to 21
By: - Sep 30th, 2012The Williamstown Film Festival's 14th season will run October 17 through 21. On the schedule: 37 films (many of them premieres) a half-dozen parties, and events at MASS MoCA, the Clark Art Institute, and Images Cinema.
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Shakespeare & Company Spoofs 39 Steps Theatre
Classic 1935 Hitchcock Film as Farce
By: - Sep 30th, 2012In a sendup of the Hitchock classic 39 Steps a game and lively cast of four play a combined 32 characters. This fast paced production, directed by Jonathan Croy, slams and careens about from London to Scotland and back again. In the fall production at Shakespeare & Company superb actors are let off the leash in over the top, flat out farce.
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Protests Continue Against WGBH Jazz Cutbacks Opinion
Response from Philip L. Redo WGBH Managing Director
By: - Sep 29th, 2012Dismissing Steve Schwartz and cutting back on Eric Jackson\'s show is an insensitive disservice to Boston\'s music community. It will affect all parts involved, at all levels — musicians, promoters, clubs, music students, even tourists(!), and fundamentally, the very listeners that in good faith have provided consistent support to WGBH itself.
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Kenny Rogers Gambles on Pittsfield Music
Country at the Colonial
By: - Sep 28th, 2012Now 74, for the very first time, Kenny Rogers performed in the Berkshires. In an adventurous booking coup the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield was near capacity for a rare appearance by a leading Country artist. With his signature, rough textured vocals and greatest hits Rogers both amused and abused a doting audience.
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Playwright Mark St. Germain Part Two Theatre
Works in Progress
By: - Sep 27th, 2012Mark St. Germain left a lucrative gig with The Cosby Show to devote full time to writing for the theatre. Over the past 27 years he has written a dozen plays, six musicals, ten screenplays, and a children's book. There are at least twelve projects in varying degrees of development. He has been a board member and adviser to artistic director Julianne Boyd since Barrington Stage was formed some 18 years ago. Currently, his play, Freud's Last Session, is being produced all over the United States as well as abroad. We engaged in this dialogue while he was in Pittsfield for the second run of Dr. Ruth All the Way.
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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Oct. 4-13 Music
Jazz Crawl Continues Through the Weekend
By: - Sep 27th, 2012​Berkshires Jazz, Inc. has announced the final lineup for the 8th annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which runs from Oct. 4-13 in various venues in downtown Pittsfield. The music spans the spectrum of jazz, and includes the New England Jazz Ensemble with guest soloists Giacomo Gates and Ali Ryerson; The Jazz Arts Trio; Jazz About Town (a "jazz crawl" that features local musicians in restaurants and lounges throughout downtown on Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 5-7); and a new entry in the Jazz Prodigy series, Adam O'Farrill, a trumpet player who is garnering accolades across the northeast.
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Glengarry Glen Ross at La Jolla Playhouse Theatre
Christopher Ashley Directs Mamet Play
By: - Sep 26th, 2012California correspondent covers the classic David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross at La Jolla Playhouse. Artistic Director Christopher Ashley has assembled a wonderfully talented and gifted cast of diverse looking actors, who fit their back-stories to a T. It’s fascinating to watch this ensemble group of performers who thoroughly understand the playwright’s dramatic intentions and dialogue, which has been referred to over the years as “Mametspeakâ€. Translation: it’s vulgar at times (loaded with f-bombs), but always honest, and it’s usually delivered at warp speed.
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Richard Gere In Arbitrage Film
New Movie Doesn’t Resonate
By: - Sep 26th, 2012Richard Gere's latest film “Arbitrage†from first-time writer director Nicholas Jarecki, makes sure that his handsome visage is in practically every shot of the suspense/thriller/drama about a New York billionaire businessman who gets caught up in his own money-making schemes with other Wall Street billionaires; as well as the police on a homicide investigation.
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WORDfest 2012 at Wharton’s The Mount Word
May Become A Yearly Event
By: - Sep 25th, 2012Here's a second account of this year's WORDfest at the Edith Wharton estate, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts, which celebrated authors and readers September 14-16. The article is offering a different point of view and photo angles.
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Mark St. Germain 's Dr. Ruth at Barrington Stage Theatre
The Process of Developing Plays
By: - Sep 24th, 2012The premiere run of Dr. Ruth All the Way by Mark St. Germain sold out at Barrington Stage Company. A return, through October 7, allows for fine tuning the one woman play which stars Debra Jo Rupp. During this first of two installment of a recent dialogue St. Germain also discussed a work, Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, commissioned for next summer's Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
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The Bandana Splits at Mass MoCA Music
Pop Band Performs Oct. 6
By: - Sep 23rd, 2012The Bandana Splits bring nostalgic charm to MASS MoCA's Club B-10 on Saturday, October 6, 8 PM. The Brookyn-based trio -- Dawn Landes, Lauren Balthrop, and Annie Nero -- recreates the bubblegum pop and doo-wop styles of the 1950s and '60s with upbeat three-part harmonies featuring ukuleles, guitars, and even kazoos.
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Randy Harrison Supports Hunter Bell’s Found Theatre
Colonial Theatre Workshops New Musical
By: - Sep 23rd, 2012Berkshire Theatre Group regular Randy Harrison was on hand to support his pals playwright/ actor Hunter Bell and members of the New York based theatre/ education collective Story Pirates. The mostly younger audience found this second ever performance of the workshopped musical Found just hilarious. While youth must be served it was a tad too raunchy for grownups.
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Brel in the Berkshires with McBroom and Ball Music
Barrington Stage Presents Jaques Brel Chansons American Style
By: - Sep 22nd, 2012Amanda McBroom, George Ball and Michele Brourman will perform tonight and tomorrow at Barrington Stage Company, at the Spice Dragon Cabaret Room, on North Street in Pittsfield, MA. A performance not to miss!
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NY's Attorney General Clears National Arts Club Opinion
$2 Million Civil Lawsuit Filed Against Former Pres. O. Aldon James
By: - Sep 22nd, 2012The very public and widely reported scandal regarding alleged mismanagement of the renowned National Arts Club in New York's posh Gramercy Park is inching toward resolution. An 18 month investigation of the club has ended with no action against the institution. Simultaneously, a civil lawsuit against former club president O. Aldon James has been launched by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG).
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The Williams College Museum of Art Cosmologies Fine Arts
Exhibition on View September 29 to December 16
By: - Sep 20th, 2012The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Cosmologies. The exhibition will be on view from September 29 through December 16, 2012. Cosmology is the arena in which science, metaphysics, philosophy, and religion converge. The multitude of cosmological approaches seek to uncover the universe’s origins, fate, meaning and physical laws
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Music Festival Berlin in September 2012 Music
Part of a Series: Berliner Festspiele
By: - Sep 20th, 2012A yearlong celebration of world cultures continues in Berlin from September into Spring 2013. As the Music Festival came to an end, the exhibition “Dennis Hopper – The Lost Album†opened at the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Next, Berlin will offer a November “Jazzfest,†followed by an international literature festival and much more.
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Balanchine Live In HD September 23 Dance
Launches Clark Art Institute's Series
By: - Sep 20th, 2012On Sunday, September 23, at 1 pm, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s new Ballet in HD series begins with a broadcast of George Balanchine’s Jewels. Known as one of Balanchine’s most revered ballets, Jewels is performed by the famed Mariinsky Ballet and is set to the music of Fauré, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky.
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Big Bear Lake International Film Festival (BBLIFF), Film
Southern California Event Honors Cinematographer Jack Cardiff
By: - Sep 20th, 2012Big Bear Lake International Film Festival (BBLIFF) in Southern California, which MovieMaker magazine has called “one of the Top 25 Festivals worth the entry fee†keeps getting bigger, better, and more prestigious within movie-savvy circles. It’s been a personal favorite of mine for a couple of reasons. First, it’s one of a few festivals that recognizes and honors the creative effort and input of the Cinematographer.
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The Cantilena Chamber Choir' s Ethan Frome Oct. 6 Music
Caryn Block Composed Wharton Inspired Opera
By: - Sep 19th, 2012The Cantilena Chamber Choir will premiere scenes from Ethan Frome- A new three act opera by Composer Caryn Block Sunday, October 7, 2012- 5:00 pm at Trinity Church 88 Walker Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. The music will include select choral scenes drawn from the three act opera and dramatic arias, duets and trios for the principal characters in Wharton’s tragic love story based in the Berkshire region.
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Mayor Dick Alcombright Goes Public Opinion
Rallies North Adams Constituents
By: - Sep 19th, 2012Last night, Mayor Dick Alcombright rallied his base with an upbeat address. The fundraiser at the restaurant, The Public, in North Adams added to the war chest to run for a third term in 2013. During his first campaign he defeated John Barrett III who served for 26 years. There was a great mix of local politicians and grass roots constituents.
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Barrington Stage Company's On the Town Theatre
2013 Season Passes Now on Sale
By: - Sep 18th, 2012For the 2013 Season, Barrington Stage is introducing the Premium Combo Pass which includes seven shows for the price of five. This pass is the best value of the season and provides a savings of up to 31% off the 2013 single ticket price. Combo passes include front orchestra section
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The Mount Hosts Its Second WordFest Word
The Literati Gather in the Berkhires
By: - Sep 17th, 2012On a glorious fall weekend WordFest was held at Edith Wharton's estate The Mount. There was an intense program of back to back panel discussions, interviews and poetry readings. It seemed like many in the audience were New Yorker readers while the speakers were top loaded with contributors. Surely it was a well read and well-heeled assembly in the posh Berkshires.
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Faith vs. Flatulence Word
Mom Had a Pill for Everything
By: - Sep 17th, 2012Lunch at Mt. Alvernia Academy was followed by chapel and then recess. This sequence of events and its digestive process led to unfortunate consequences and intense embarrassment. Particularly when it entailed relics. It was an awkward moment not to be in control of bodily functions.
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