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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David Hyde Pierce at Williamstown Theatre Festival People
Five Minutes One on One
By: - Jun 26th, 2012David Hyde Piece is directing Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest which launches the Main Stage season for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Most audience know him from an eleven year stint as Dr. Niles Crane in the hit TV comedy series Frasier. It took just five minutes of intense quality time to discover that there is more to him than that. But how much can you know about somebody in five minutes. Hey. Show Biz.
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A Tyne Daly Speed Date Theatre
Going Wilde at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 26th, 2012During a remarkably rich and enduring career Tyne Daly has been known for playing strong women from a cop in TV's seminal Cagney and Lacey to a Tony Award winning Mama Rose in the great musical Gypsy. Revealing her discipline and versatility she is appearing in the witty Oscar Wilde comedy The Importance of Being Earnest at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Clark Art Institute Celebrates China Fine Arts
3 Exhibitions and 1 Chinese Street Festival
By: - Jun 26th, 2012The Clark opened its doors and front lawns to the General Public on Sunday, June 24th, for a wonderful celebration of Summer and Chinese arts and culture. It complemented the current three China exhibitions, which are on view until September and October. The day proved to be a photographer's delight!
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American Theatre Critics Association Meets in Chicago Theatre
Exploring the Arts and Architecture of the Second City
By: - Jun 25th, 2012During ten days in Chicago we saw seven plays with five of them as delegates to the annual conference of the American Theatre Critics Association. We arrived early for Iceman Cometh at Goodman and The March at Steppenwolf. As well as time to visit the Art Institute of Chicago, Millenium Park, and take a river architectural tour.
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Dennis Krausnick Masterful as King Lear Theatre
Stunning Production by Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 24th, 2012Some 35 years ago Dennis Krausnick was a founding member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. His involvement with King Lear began fifteen years ago when he directed a production starring Olympia Dukakis who returns this summer with The Tempest. He has been performing Lear on the road and returns home with an astonishing performance in a triumphant production.
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Don't Miss Parasite Drag by Mark Roberts Theatre
Shakespeare & Company Ends September 2
By: - Jun 23rd, 2012Parasite Drag by Mark Roberts is the mustsee play of the Berkshire Season. It runs in through September 2. Be warned however this is an X rated play with strong language and explicit sex. It is not family entertainment. For those with strong stomachs this is an unforgettable evening of great theatre.
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Dr. Ruth Talks About Sex at Barrington Stage People
Moderated by Playwright Mark St. Germain
By: - Jun 22nd, 2012Barrington Stage Company presents Dr. Ruth Westheimer in “Talking Sex with Dr. Ruth†moderated by “Dr. Ruth, All the Way†playwright Mark St. Germain, on the BSC Mainstage (30 Union Street, Pittsfield), Monday, July 2 at 7pm.
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Fiddler Falls Off the Roof at Barrington Stage Theatre
Brad Oscar Stumbles as Tevye
By: - Jun 22nd, 2012There are many reasons to see this wonderfully staged and choreographed production of the iconic musical Fiddler on the Roof that launches the season of Barrington Stage Company. Unfortunately, the miscast and stumbling Brad Oscar in the leading role of Tevye is not one of them.
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WGBH Slashes Jazz Programming Opinion
Radio Community Reacts Supporting Eric Jackson and Steve Schwartz
By: - Jun 22nd, 2012This week's news that WGBH is downgrading its local jazz programming by more than 50% has ignited a firestorm in the tightly-knit community of jazz announcers. Veteran announcers Eric Jackson and Steve Schwartz, with combined service of more than 55 years in jazz radio, were informed that Eric's long-running weekday show (Mon-Thurs, 8pm-midnight) would be moved to the weekend, and Steve's Friday evening program will be terminated.
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Casts Announced for WTF Productions Theatre
Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Far From Heaven
By: - Jun 21st, 2012Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten announced today the full cast and creative teams for Last of the Red Hot Lovers, which will be presented on the Nikos Stage from July 11 through July 22 (opening July 12), and the Preview Production of Far From Heaven, which will play the Main Stage from July 19 through July 29 (opening July 21). Both shows begin rehearsals today in preparation for their runs at the Festival.
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City & Guilds of London Art School Degree Show Fine Arts
27 June to 1 July 2012
By: - Jun 21st, 2012The 2012 Degree Show presents work by BA Painting, Sculpture, Conservation and Historic Carving graduates. They will exhibit in the School's historic buildings in Kennington. Unique among London art schools, City & Guilds offers progressive ideas shared with a strong foundation in drawing and craft skillswithstudents enjoying an exceptionally generous student-to-tutor ratio.16 painters and 3 sculptors will be exhibiting alongside 8 Conservators and 13 Historic Carvers.
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Tigers Be Still at Chicago’s Wit Theatre
Three Ring Circus for Fringe Companies
By: - Jun 20th, 2012With three stages Chicago's Theatre Wit collaborates with some forty of the Second City's 200 plus theatre companies. We attended the final weekend of the hit comedy Tigers be Still which Kim Rosenstock wrote and developed in New York at Roundabout before it moved to Wit. What a hoot.
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Stars of Williamstown Theatre Festival Meet and Greet Theatre
Blythe Danner, Tyne Daly, David Hyde Pierce, Bob Balaban
By: - Jun 20th, 2012On Thursday, June 28 the Williamstown Theatre Festival launches its season with the opening night of two shows. Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" directed by David Hyde Pierce with Tyne Daly is on the Main Stage. The more intimate Nikos Stage will feature the world premiere of The Deep Blue directed by Bob Balaban with Becky Ann Baker and a return to Williamstown after a long absence of a perennial favorite, Blythe Danner. Yesterday WTF artistic director Jenny Gersten hosted a meet an greet with the directors and their stars.
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Immediate Family by Paul Oakley Stovall Theatre
Directed by Phylicia Rashaad at Chicago's Goodman
By: - Jun 19th, 2012Conforming to Aristotle’s paradigms for drama Immediate Family by Paul Oakley Stovall the action involving an African American family gathered for a wedding occurs at a furious pace with over the top histrionics, directed at warp speed by Phylicia Rashad, all in one day.
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Marvin Gaye Rocks Chicago Theatre
Jackie Taylor’s Black Ensemble Theater
By: - Jun 19th, 2012The remarkable Jackie Taylor built the new $19 million Black Ensemble Theatre. She also writes, produces and directs musicals about the immortals of soul. Currently a boffo hit "The Marvin Gaye Story: Don’t Talk About My Father Because God Is My Friend" is the coolest show of a sizzling Chicago summer. Let's get it on.
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Eastland at Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre
Premiere of Andrew White Musical
By: - Jun 18th, 2012On 24 July 1915 some 2,572 employees of Western Electric Company boarded The Eastland for an outing. While still docked the overcrowded, top heavy vessel sank in 20 feet of water. There were 884 deaths. Improbably, Andrew White, the artistic director of the renowned Lookinglass, has written a musical based on that tragedy. Will the production sink or swim with audiences? It was well received on opening night but needs overhaul in dry-dock.
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E. L. Doctorow's The March Theatre
World Premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf
By: - Jun 13th, 2012The renowned Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago has just closed the world premiere of The March, adapted and directed by Frank Galati from the novel by E. L. Doctorow. The ambitious two and a half hour production with an enormous cast and a simple staging needs a major overhaul if it hopes to have a life beyond Chicago.
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Jacob's Pillow Dance 2012 Dance
Full Schedule June 16 through August 26
By: - Jun 07th, 2012Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival kicks off June 16 with the 80th Anniversary Gala, followed by “a veritable dance explosion†(Claudia La Rocco of The New York Times) of more than 300 free and ticketed performances, talks, exhibits, classes, and events spanning three months.
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King Lear at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Lenox Production June 16 to September 1
By: - Jun 07th, 2012King Lear runs from June 16 through September 1 in S&Co.’s Founders’Theatre. Press Opening is on Friday, June 23 at 7:30PM. This profound and devastatingly beautiful tale of regret is directed by Rebecca Holderness who sets the stage in 1906 Russia as the monarchy is crumbling and Lear’s world descends into madness.
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The Puppetmaster of Lodz Opens June 21 Theatre
Launches Berkshire Theatre Group's Theatre Festival Season
By: - Jun 07th, 2012The Puppetmaster of Lodz by Gilles Ségal, translated by Sara O'Connor and directed by Brian Roff will begin Berkshire Theatre Group's Theatre Festival season at The Unicorn Theatre, 6 East St. in Stockbridge on June 21 with an official press opening on June 23.
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Kristen van Ginhoven Offers Workshops Theatre
WAM Director To Teach Actors and Directors
By: - Jun 07th, 2012Kristen van Ginhoven, WAM’s Artistic Director, will teach a workshop over the summer where she will share what she learned while recently working at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada. The workshop will be offered June 18 in Schenectady, NY at Proctor’s Theatre and July 22 at Eleven in Great Barrington, MA.
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Dr. Ruth All the Way at Barrington Stage Theatre
Mark St. Germain World Premiere June 19 to July 21
By: - Jun 06th, 2012Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning regional theatre in downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, is proud to present the world premiere of Dr. Ruth, All The Way by Mark St. Germain, directed by Julianne Boyd.Starring stage, film and television actress Debra Jo Rupp (That 70s Show), Dr. Ruth, All the Way will now run from June 19 through July 21 at St. Germain Stage(formerly Stage 2) at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. Opening Night is Saturday, June 30 at 8pm.
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Ralph Brill on Photographer Leonard Freed People
Eclipse Mill Exhibition and Other Projects
By: - Jun 05th, 2012A version of the traveling exhibition The Italians by the late photographer, Leonard Freed, will be presented in August at the Eclipse Mill Gallery by the gallerist/ entrepreneur Ralph Brill. We met with Brill to discuss Freed and other wide ranging thoughts and projects. There was a focus on North Adams as the former home of Arnold Printworks and Sprague Electric prior to becoming home to Mass MoCA.
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100 Boston Painters Fine Arts
An Ambitious Publication by Chawky Frenn
By: - Jun 04th, 2012From the Colonial Era through the present Boston has been notable for its passion and commitment to painters. The artist Chawky Freen has succeeded in the daunting challenge of publishing an overview of 100 Boston Painters. This is an invaluable contribution to an aspect of contemporary art in Boston.
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Grita Insam 1939-2012 People
Vienna Gallerist Ist Tot
By: - Jun 04th, 2012We spent quality time with Vienna gallerist Grita Insam. We recall visiting her main and project galleries. Over wine and sausages she revealed that she was formerly a champion ballroom dancer. It was among her many unique qualities.
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