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 Class Act at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre
A Sidebar to Chorus Line at the Colonial Theatre
By: - Jul 16th, 2012In 1976 the team of Marvin Hamlish, music and Edward Kleban, lyrics won the 1976 Tony Award for the score of A Chorus Line. Currently that show is a hit for the Colonial Theatre. On the Unicorn Theatre stage of Berkshire Theatre Group is a vest pocket, thrifty production of the musical A Class Act, assembled posthumously, which focuses on the neurotic life and failed ambitions of Kleban. It fleshes out the history of a gifted and enigmatic theatrical genius. The shows are best seen in tandem.
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Jenny Gersten Discusses Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Mid-Semester Report Card of Her Second Season
By: - Jul 14th, 2012This week the Williamstown Theatre Festival opens its second of three plays on the Main Stage. With the second of four now running on the Nikos Stage, artistic director Jenny Gersetn is at the mid point of a seven play season. We asked about her second season as artistic director of WTF? How does she plan a program and manage some 300 individuals on the Williams College campus? She surprised us by saying that it takes "muscles."
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Anne-Sophie Mutter in All Mozart Program Opinion
Participates in 75th Anniversary Tanglewood Gala Concert
By: - Jul 14th, 2012On Wednesday the German born violin virtuoso, Anne-Sophie Mutter, performed in Ozawa Hall accompanied by pianist Lambert Orkis. On Friday she led a baroque orchestra in an all Mozart program. Tonight, she will be a guest among many participating in the Gala 75th Anniversary concert. She has also met with students in the Tanglewood summer program. It was her first Berkshire visit since 1992.
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers Sizzles at WTF Theatre
Jessica Stone Directs Neil Simon Comedy
By: - Jul 13th, 2012In a brilliant romp, a Williamstown Theatre Festival favorite son, Brooks Ashmanskas, has returned in the first ever WTF production of a Neil Simon comedy, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, from the peak of the sexual revolution in 1969. This is also the 8th season for Jessica Stone at WTF and her second time as a director. She made her directorial debut in 2010 with a smash hit of the Steven Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with the twist of an all male cast.
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Roy Lichtenstein Dot.Con Fine Arts
Art Institute of Chicago Through September 3
By: - Jul 12th, 2012Through September 3 this is the first major museum level exhibition of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein since his death in 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago is showing 130 paintings and 30 additional works including drawings and sculptures. From Chicago the exhibition travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Tate Modern and, finally, the Centre Pompidou in Paris in fall 2013.
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The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth Dance
Jacob's Pillow July 11 through 15
By: - Jul 11th, 2012The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth showcases today’s most exceptional male dancers, choreographers, directors and scholars, as they pay homage to the Pillow’s pioneering founder Ted Shawn and his company of Men Dancers in this exclusive program, to be seen only at the Pillow.
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Cast for A Month in the Country at WTF Theatre
Turgenev Play Runs August 1 to 19
By: - Jul 11th, 2012The cast has been announced for the final main stage production of the Williamstown Theatre Festival season. A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev will be directed by Richard Nelson who also worked on a new translation of the Russian drama. It opens on August 1 and continues through August 19.
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Gallic Gala at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Dance
An Evenng at the Moulin Rouge on Bastille Day
By: - Jul 10th, 2012The Belle Époque era comes to life on Saturday, July 14 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s Annual Ballet Gala, “An Evening at the Moulin Rouge.†The popular summer fundraiser, which coincides with “Bastille Day,†will recreate the atmosphere of a Parisian lounge circa 1900, with a champagne and La Fée Absinthe reception, a strolling accordion player, exquisite French cuisine and guests dressed in period attire.
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Bernadette Peters Pops Tanglewood Music
Broadway in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 09th, 2012In one of the best ever Pops programs Keith Lockhart paid tribute to New York composers. Including the Washington D. C. born jazz great Duke Ellington's A Tone Parallel to Harlem. For the second half of the concert he was joined by Broadway legend Bernadette Peters. She performed a number of songs by Stephen Sondheim including two from Follies which she performed this season on Broadway. Awesome.
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Olympia Dukakis in The Tempest at S&Co Theatre
July 19 - August 19 in the Tina Packer Playhouse
By: - Jul 09th, 2012Artistic director Tony Simotes will direct his former teacher, Olympia Dukakis in The Tempest at Shakespeare & Company. The Tempest runs from July 19th through August 19th in S&Co.’s newly renamed Tina Packer Playhouse. There is a 40% discount for Berkshire residents and many other affordable options.
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Art Garfunkel Performs at the Clark August 11 Music
Previews The Singer a 34 Song CD
By: - Jul 09th, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute welcomes legendary singer-songwriter Art Garfunkel in a rare concert appearance on Saturday, August 11, at 8 pm.
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Boffo A Chorus Line at Berkshire Theatre Group Theatre
Through July 21 a Heart Wrenching Barn Burner
By: - Jul 08th, 2012With the deft direction of Eric Hill, and the fabulous choreography of Gerry McIntyre, Berkshire Theatre Group is staging a terrific production of Michael Bennett's ground breaking, 1975 musical , A Chorus Line. This is the thrilling Berkshire summer sensation we've all been waiting for. Don't miss this one.
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Tempus Fugit for Tanglewood 75th Music
Christoph von Dohnányi Conducts Sweltering Opening Night
By: - Jul 07th, 2012It was steamy in the Shed last night for the sweltering launch of the gala, 2012, 75th season of Tanglewood. With Christoph von Dohnányi, a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1952, the orchestra replicated the very first BSO concert that took place on August 5, 1937. A capacity audience enjoyed the all-Beethoven program, opening with the Leonore Overture No. 3, followed by Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, and Symphony No. 5.
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Celebrating La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary Season Theatre
The Etiquette of Death A Community Project
By: - Jul 06th, 2012What better way to celebrate La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary season than to round up a gaggle of actors and writers, assemble a musical play about death, get Ridiculous Theatre legend Everett Quinton and choreographer Julie Atlas Muz, former Miss Coney Island and Miss Exotic World, to co-direct it, hire a 7 piece orchestra led by Jeremy X. Halpern, and return them to the Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa where not a few of them have been treading the boards for decades.
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7th Monarch by Jim Henry in NY Run Theatre
Theatre Row’s Acorn Theatre Through September 9
By: - Jul 06th, 2012Despite 7th Monarch’s familiar storyline, seen all too often on the stage, TV, and at the movies, and a couple quirky disclosures stretched to the outer limits of believability by Chicago based playwright Jim Henry, my eyes and ears, as well as those of my date du jour, were riveted to the stage as we watched, what is something of a who done it and was it done at all, unfold bit by bit.
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Randy Harrison at the Colonial August 20 Theatre
QWAN (Quality Without a Name) presents SWAN!!! and NOTES!!!
By: - Jul 06th, 2012QWAN (Quality Without a Name) presents SWAN!!! and NOTES!!! at Berkshire Theatre Group’s The Colonial Theatre on August 20 at 7:30pm featuring Christian Coulson, Jack Ferver, Jenn Harris, Randy Harrison, Phillip Taratula and Matthew Wilkas
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Bradley Cooper Discusses Elephant Man People
Broadway Bound for Fall 2013
By: - Jul 04th, 2012While in Williamstown this summer Bradley Cooper discussed his Elephant Man production co starring Patricia Clarkson. It proved to be a sold out run and the most sought after ticket of the Berkshire season. Here is what he said about a play that has obsessed him since it was his graduate thesis.
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Blythe Danner Returns to Williamstown in The Blue Deep Theatre
World Premiere by Lucy Boyle
By: - Jul 04th, 2012The Blue Deep, a world premiere by Lucy Boyle, is selling out on the intimate Nikos Stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival mostly through the mega watt star power of a legendary alumna Blythe Danner. In a return after a long absence she is as stunning and sensational as ever. But is she enough to carry a new work that needs drastic revisions before a when and if next production.
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The Taylors James and Swift at Tanglewood Music
Annual Franchise Concert Thrills Fans
By: - Jul 03rd, 2012Last night James Taylor performed the first of three annual sold out shows at Tanglewood. With a twenty minute intermission the program started just after seven and ended just before ten. During all that time guest artist Taylor Swift graced us with two duets and a solo of her teen anthem, a thrill to thousands of girls in the audience “Love Story.†More tonight.
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TransCultural Exchange Announces Global Conference 2013 Fine Arts
Hosted by Boston University - October 10 -13
By: - Jul 01st, 2012TransCulturalExchange, has presented biannually conferences since 2007, which brought together hundreds of individuals or representatives of organizations and universities from many media and locations world-wide. Boston University will host the next conference on its campus. – This article focuses on a segment of 2012 international art projects: Exhibitions, symposia/ residencies, designed to invite artists and cultural activists to diverse communities. We have followed their work since the 2009 conference.
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Debra Jo Rupp's Dr. Ruth at Barrington Stage Theatre
Mark St. Germain's Hit Returns Through October 7
By: - Jul 01st, 2012The world premiere of Dr. Ruth All the Way sold out its initial run at Barrington Stage Company. With some sharpening by playwright Mark St. Germain the one woman show starring Debra Jo Rupp returns to Pittsfield through October 7. Catch it while you can.
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Morphoses in Within (Labyrinth Within) Dance
World Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Jun 30th, 2012The world premiere of Within (Labyrinth Within) by the Swedish choreographer and dancer Pontus Lidberg at Jacob’s Pillow is a daunting and haunting confluence of live dance combined with a projected film behind the performers that at times echoes what’s on stage. In the final sequence the film stands alone completing a complex narrative of estranged marriage, passion, and jealousy.
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WTF’s Gangsta The Importance of Being Earnest Theatre
David Hyde Pierce’s Direction is Wilde
By: - Jun 29th, 2012For the opening of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, artistic director Jenny Gersten has rolled out the heavy artillery. In only his second venture at directing Emmy and Tony winning actor David Hyde Pierce is offering a Guys and Dolls spin on the classic Oscar Wilde comedy The Importance of Being Earnest. The Emmy and Tony winning Tyne Daly is a spot on Lady Bracknell who, amazingly, is upstaged by the fabulous Marylouise Burke as the hilarious Miss Prim.
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Shakespeare & Company 35th Season Theatre
Special Events in Celebration
By: - Jun 28th, 2012As part of the celebrations for its 35th Season, Shakespeare & Company is pleased to introduce a series of presentations and events tailored to its summer performance season. Engaging discussions, riveting talks, and insightful Q&A’s will all be featured in the Company’s packed calendar of special events. For more information on all of Shakespeare & Company’s special 35th Season offerings, including Founders’ Talks, Author! Author!, Tuesday Talks, Wednesday Q&A’s, Behind the Scenes Tours, and other special events.
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Pittsfield Third Thursday People
Monthly Family Fun
By: - Jun 27th, 2012In the past few years Third Thursdays have drawn big crowds to downtown Pittsfield, Our album of images shows why.
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