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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Williamstown Film Festival's Lucky 13 Film
Returns October 21-23 and 17-29
By: - Sep 20th, 2011Over two weekends (October 21-23 and 27-29), the Williamstown Film Festival's "Lucky 13th" season will include two East Coast and four New England premieres, family and late-night slots, titles from Sundance, Tribeca, and Toronto, and films featuring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Carol Channing, Ezra Miller, Lewis Black, Kate Burton, Tony Shalhoub, Campbell Scott, and Christo. WFF will conclude with a salute to legendary director Sidney Lumet at the Clark Art Institute.
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Mary Zimmerman Directs Candide Opinion
Bernstein Musical at Boston's Huntington Theatre
By: - Sep 19th, 2011Tony Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Mary Zimmerman is directing and adapting Leonard Bernstein's Candide which opens this week at the Huntington TYheatre in Boston. It is her third production of the musical. She has also directed controversial new productions for the Metropolitan Opera which have been broadcast Live in HD. She is soon to announce more work with the Met. We discussed the production of Candide. There will be another interview that focuses on her feisty responses to criticism of her operas and views on the role of critics.
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Netflix Mea Culpa Opinion
Response to Subscriber Outrage
By: - Sep 19th, 2011Netflix screwed up big time. Jacking up prices and turning off long time customers. The stock took a dive and the company is in big doodooo with consumers. Now CEA Reed Hastings comes clean and wants us back big time. Read this and weep.
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Big River Runs Through Boston’s Lyric Stage Theatre
Going with the Flow of an American Odyssey
By: - Sep 17th, 2011The Lyric Stage Company of Boston opens its season, September 2 through October 8, with a lively and ambitious production of the musical Big River; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, based on the novel by Mark Twain with music and lyrics by Roger Miller and book by William Hauptman. On Broadway the musical won seven Tony Awards and ran for 1,005 performances.
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Barrington Stage Company Reports Record Season Opinion
$ 1 Million Plus in Ticket Sales
By: - Sep 13th, 2011Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, announces that its 2011 season was the most successful season since its founding in 1995.
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Joe Manning on The Lewis Hine Project Opinion
The Mill Children at the Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Sep 12th, 2011Lewis Hine used his camera to expose the issue of child labor in America. In 1911 he created nine images of children about to start their 12 hour shift at the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Mass. Through October 8 the Eclipse Mill Gallery is showing the special exhibition The Mill Children. The project was organized by gallerist Ralph Brill with Realist Painter William Oberst, Abstract Painter Dawn Nelson, Historian Joe Manning, Composer/Musician Matt Hopkins, Filmmaker Steven Borns and Educator Anne French. Wespoke with Joe Manning about his ongoing Lewis Hine Project.
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Willard V. Jenkins on NEA Jazz Masters Opinion
Grammy and NEA Cutbacks Evoke Protests
By: - Sep 10th, 2011Recognition and support for the diversity of American music is under attack. For the 2012 Grammy Awards the number of categories has been reduced from 109 to 78 with a particular elimination of ethnic performers. There are similar consolidations for the NEA. We discussed this with Willard V. Jenkins who helped to bring the NEA Jazz Masters Jimmy Cobb and Gunther Schuller to the 2011 Tanglewood Jazz Festival.
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Gunther Schuller and Jimmy Cobb on Miles Davis Music
Birth of the Cool and Kind of Blue
By: - Sep 09th, 2011In 1949 Gunther Schuller played horn as a part of the Miles Davis nonet in sessions originally released as 78 rpm singles. Several years later in the early days of LPs the singles were reissued as the album Birth of the Cool. Jimmy Cobb was the drummer of the classic Davis album, a continuing best seller, Kind of Blue. During a session with critic and historian, Bob Blumenthal, during the Tanglewood Jazz Festival they recalled those now historic recordings.
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Tanglewood Jazz Festival Two Music
Sing the Truth, Mingus/ Schuller, Cobb
By: - Sep 07th, 2011The Sunday afternoon program featured the Jazz Masters, drummer Jimmy Cobb fronting Coast to Coast All Stars. Followed by The Mingus Orchestra conducted by Gunther Schuller. The evening program Sing the Truth featured Angelique Kidjo, Dianne Reeves, and Lizz Wright. With that the season ended for Tanglewood in the Berkshires. Such sweet music.
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Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2011 One Music
Cachao Tribute Judy Carmichael Blythe Danner
By: - Sep 05th, 2011The annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival was a three day slam dunk. There was a superbly balanced program that introduced emerging artists as well as performances by jazz masters. A nice addition this year featured scull sessions with jazz critic and historian Bob Blumenthal. It was everything you would hope for in a great jazz festival. This is part one of our coverage.
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The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at ART Theatre
Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis Sizzle
By: - Sep 02nd, 2011With three women in charge, artistic director, Diane Paulus, playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks and music director/ composer Diedre L. Murry this ART production of The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at American Repertory Theatre is more about Bess than Porgy. Audra McDonald stars in this revision of an American classic by and for women. Norm Lewis, however, more than holds his own as Porgy and Phillip Boykin as Crown must be seen and heard to be believed. Incredible. This Cambridge smash hit will swarm over Broadway for the Holidays.
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Porgy and Bess at Tanglewood Music
Concert Performance of Gershwin Classic
By: - Aug 27th, 2011When the Tanglewood season was planned surely nobody anticipated the interest and controversy that would be evoked by a concert version of the opera Porgy and Bess (1935) with music by George Gershwin, libretto and lyrics by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin. In one of the most anticipated and controversial theatre events of the season American Repertory Theatre opens its Broadway bound musical version this week
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Mark Morris at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Company Celebrates 30th Anniversary
By: - Aug 26th, 2011Jacob's Pillow is a national treasure bringing world class dance to the Berkshires. Over the course of the season we have enjoyed the distinct and unique differences between companies. Arguably, from the audience's point of view, Pillow saved the best for last closing the season in the Ted Shawn Theatre with a 30th anniversary performance of Mark Morris Dance Group. They have become a franchise for Tanglewood so we were treated to having the company open and close the season of dance in the Berkshires.
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Asher Lev at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
A Hasidic Jewish Artist Violates the Second Commandment
By: - Aug 24th, 2011Since the premiere of the play Asher Lev by Adam Posner, in 2009, based on the 1971 novel by Chaim Potok , there have been some 50 regional productions. The playwright is directing the emotionally vibrant work which is drawing capacity audiences and has been extended to September 11 at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield.
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Shakespeare & Company Event September 5 Theatre
17th Annual Studio Festival of Plays
By: - Aug 23rd, 2011Shakespeare & Company’s Artistic Director Tony Simotes announces the titles for its 17th annual Studio Festival of Plays—a mini-marathon of plays never before performed at the Company, running one-day only on Monday, September 5th in Founders’ Theatre. Staged readings begin at 11:00 AM, and continue through to 11:00PM. Company actors and special guest actors will present seven productions throughout the day, in the form of works-in-progress and staged readings.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Touts Record Season Opinion
Ten Cents a Dance Closes August 28
By: - Aug 22nd, 2011There is no question that the first season of artistic director Jenny Gersten has done well at the box office. In a release WTF announces that its sales for August are double what they were in August last year. Overall they are stating attendance at some 44,000. According to the wildly uneven reviews, however, Williamstown Theatre Company has slipped from its once dominant position among the four major Berkshire theatre companies.
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Flavours in Pittsfield Food
Malaysian Style Barbecue
By: - Aug 22nd, 2011Flavours, a basement restaurant at 75 North Street in Pittsfield is not what comes to mind when seeking out neighborhood rib joints. It is just an aspect of the diverse menu of the Malaysian born chef Sabrina Tan. Not just in the Berkshires, however, her Asian style barbecue is in a class by itself.
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Mark St. Germain Four People
On Not Reading His Reviews
By: - Aug 22nd, 2011During dialolgues with theatre people it is usual to learn that they do not read reviews of their work. Or if they do well after a production has closed. We asked the playwright Mark St. Germain about that and found a rational and compelling response. While his play The Best of Enemies, which returns to Barrington Stage Company from October 6 to 16, got rave reviews he indicated knowing of them indirectly.
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Mark St. Germain Three People
Integrating Durham Schools in 1971
By: - Aug 21st, 2011What does it take for the playwright Mark St. Germain to get into the heads of explosive combatants the black activist, Ann Atwater, going head to head with the Klansman. C. P. Ellis. Or to put a screed of racial slurs into the mouth of a young black mediator, Bill Riddick, sent by the federal Department of Education to bring about the integration of schools in Durham in 1971. It is the topic of St. Germain's play, The Best of Enemies which returns to Barrington Stage for its second run from October 5 to 16.
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Mark St. Germain Playwright Part Two People
Relationship with Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 21st, 2011In this segment of an extended dialogue with the playwright he describes a unique relationship with Julianne Boyd, the artistic director of Barrington Stage Company. They have worked together on a number of plays including the hits Freud’s Last Session, which continues its run Off Broadway through October and The Best of Enemies which will return to Barrington Stage from October 5 to 16. It opened to rave reviews and sold out houses in August. From New York Freud travels to Chicago for an open ended engagement
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Morgan Freeman Joins John Williams for Film Night Music
Capacity Audience at Tanglewood
By: - Aug 21st, 2011There was a near capacity turn out of 18,000 delighted patrons for the annual Film Night conducted by John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra. His special guests included narrator, Morgan Freeman, and violinist, Gil Shamam. Tanglewood was popping.
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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Diverse Program by Renowned Regional Company
By: - Aug 20th, 2011The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is regarded as among the nation's leading regional dace companies. It is know for superb dancers and works by leading global choreographers. The three works we experienced before a packed audience at Jacob's Pillow could not have been more diverse. But it also indicates a company without an identifiable signature style.
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Playwright Mark St. Germain Part One People
The Best of Enemies Returns To Barrington Stage
By: - Aug 19th, 2011The August run of Mark St. Germain’s new play The Best of Enemies set attendance records for a drama on the Main Stage of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass. The play returns from October 5 to 16. We met with him to discuss the play, his relationship with Barrington Stage and the craft of a playwright.
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You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents’ Divorce Theatre
The Civilians in Residence at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Aug 19th, 2011The Civilians is a multi media group based in Brooklyn. They have a unique working process identifying a topic and then undertaking research through recorded and transcribed interviews. For this all too brief and riveting performance at Williamstown Theatre Festival they explored divorce. Surprisingly, it provided a provocative and entertaining evening of theatre. Including encountering the Mom who inspired the play as a neighbor in the audience. It was intriguing to chat with her before and after the performance. Blurring, yet again, the boundary between life and art.
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The Game Is a Winner for Barrington Stage Theatre
Stunning Musical Set in the 18th Century
By: - Aug 18th, 2011Barrington Stage Company completes its Main Stage season with yet another musical and smash hit. The Game was first produced by Julianne Boyd in 2003. That was before the company found its current home in Pittsfield. The musical written by Amy Powers and David Topchik, with music by Megan Cavallari conveys the mandate of the company to present compelling new works.
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