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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Two Cents on Ten Cents a Dance Theatre
Controversy for Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Aug 17th, 2011The production of Ten Cents a Dance based on a reworking of Rodgers and Hart by John Doyle is provoking a firestorm of controversy. The musical in which five women sing and play instruments with a male piano player is inspiring praise and scorn from audiences and critics. Everyone emerges from Williamstown Theatre Festival with an opinion. Here are links to positive and negative reviews. Don't miss the chance to wade in on this. See it while you can.
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Fiddler on the Roof for Barrington Stage Theatre
Opens June 13, 2012
By: - Aug 16th, 2011Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, announces it will present the musical Fiddler on the Roof as its 2012 season opener, with production dates from June 13 through July 14, 2012.
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Broadway in the Berkshire at Shakespeare & Company Theatre
Benefit Nets $60,000 for Education Program
By: - Aug 16th, 2011The Berkshire smart set has had "galas" up the wazoo. Artistic director, Tony Simotes,and benefit chairperson, Deborah Grausman, had a different idea. On a Monday night when New York theatres are closed many stars turned out for Broadway in the Berkshires at Shakespeare & Company. The musical revue was brilliantly hosted by the witty and charming Chip Zien. The successful event raised $50,000 for the education program.
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Prince Ankhaf a Coveted Treasure of the Museum of Fine Arts Fine Arts
Grandstanding Mohamed Saleh Demands Its Return to Egypt
By: - Aug 14th, 2011The Museum of Fine Arts is known to have the finest collection of Old Kingdom Egyptian art outside of Cairo. Its greatest treasure, which it acquired through shrewd negotiation in 1927, is the limestone, polychromed portrait bust of Prince Ankhaf. Egypt wants it back. The MFA response is more or less, bloody hell.
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Trisha Brown at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Company Celebrates 40 Years
By: - Aug 14th, 2011During a 40th anniversary of the Trisha Brown Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow we were provided with a selection of works spanning from 1973 through the present. During the 1960s Brown was a part of the experimental Judson Dance Theatre which was a matrix for multi media work that drew together leading New York choreographers, dancers, visual artists, composers and musicians.
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Ten Cents a Dance at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Ersatz New Rodgers and Hart Musical by John Doyle
By: - Aug 13th, 2011Tony Award winning playwright and director John Doyle, as well as, WTF artistic director Jenny Gersten are in denial that Ten Cents a Dance, a rehash of work by Rodgers and Hart is a "jukebox musical." But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck? This cut and paste job is being passed off as a "an American premiere." You decide.
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Tommy Tune Glides Into the Colonial Theatre
Steps in Time
By: - Aug 12th, 2011Seniors were out in force to support one of their own, Tommy Tune, who brought his retrospective Steps in Time to the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. With a sparing light touch the nine time Tony winner sang and danced his way down memory lane.
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Stephanie Blythe at Tanglewood Music
Program of Americana by Met Mezzo Soprano
By: - Aug 11th, 2011In the relatively brief time since earning a BFA degree in 1993 Stephanie Blythe has emerged as a star of the Metropolitan Opera and one of the great mezzo-sopranos of her generation. Early on she was a Tanglewood Fellow for two years and has returned ever since in a mentoring role. Last night she paid tribute to that unique relationship in a program of American song.
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Train Roars Through Tanglewood Music
Fans Hop On for a Wild Ride
By: - Aug 09th, 2011There were flashes of Beatlemania last night as soccer moms and teenipboppers bounded on stage at the invitation of lead singer Patrick Monahan of Train. Not since Wilco have we seen such raw energy rock the Shed. It was great fun. The band informed the audience that they would like to be an annual event like James Taylor. What a great idea.
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Are Critics Obsolete? Opinion
Theatre Companies Facebook Text and Tweet
By: - Aug 09th, 2011Increasingly the marketing and pr strategy of theatre companies has turned to social networking sources like Facebook and Twitter to drown out the negative reviews of established print and on line critics. Today Williamstown Theatre Festival sent out an e mail blast with raves from unattributed sources. The majority of Berkshire theatre critics were less than thrilled by the world premiere of Touch(ed) by Bess Wohl. But, hey, who cares what critics think?
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Blythe Danner at Tanglewood Jazz Festival People
Returning to Old Haunts in the Berkshires
By: - Aug 08th, 2011Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner will be the featured guest on Judy Carmichael’s “Jazz Inspired†on Saturday, September 3, at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. Danner will perform with pianist Mike Renzi and bassist Neal Miner. Judy Carmichael’s “Jazz Inspired†will be taped before a live audience at Seiji Ozawa Hall on Saturday, September 3, at 2 pm, and broadcast at a later date on 170 stations in the United States and worldwide.
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Mass MoCA Confirms Anselm Kiefer Installation Fine Arts
Adding to Success of the LeWitt Building
By: - Aug 08th, 2011Since December of 2010 we have been asking Joe Thompson about a long term installation of works by the major German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer. He squirmed and refused to answer the question. As we have previously reported the museum is now in the process of creating another long term installation similar to the enormously successful building devoted to the late Sol LeWitt. It greatly strengthens North Adams as a global art world destination.
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In the Mood by Kathleen Clark Theatre
World Premiere for Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Aug 07th, 2011On the Fitzpatrick Main Stage of Berkshire Theatre Group In the Mood, a sophisticated, urbane comedy by Kathleen Clark, is enjoying a slick and elegantly produced world premiere. It runs in Stockbridge through August 13.
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3e Étage at Jacob’s Pillow Dance
Soloists and Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
By: - Aug 06th, 2011There were eight U.S. premieres in the rare Jacob's Pillow appearance of 3e Étage: Soloists and Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. The phenomenal program combined the most demanding and precise classical ballet with goofy comedic segments of mime. It kept the audience guessing until it burst into a standing ovation that seemed to go on forever. It was a stunning and galvanic evening of dance.
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Touch(ed) by Bess Wohl Theatre
Nikos Stage of Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Aug 05th, 2011Touch(ed) by Bess Wohl had its world premiere at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 8 to 23, 2010. Based on this second production at Williamstown Theatre Festival it is still a work in progress needing an extreme makeover. Don't expect to see this ersatz comedy about mental illness to reach Off Broadway any time soon.
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Congressional Reform Act of 2011 Opinion
Common Sense
By: - Aug 04th, 2011Consider how poorly Congress functioned with a serious issue like the debt ceiling. The American People are mad as hell and just won't take it any more. It's time to send a message.
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Trisha Brown at Jacob's Pillow August 10-14 Dance
40th Anniversary of the Landmark Dance Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2011Trisha Brown’s pioneering dance style is a celebrated cornerstone of modern dance. August 10-14, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival salutes the 40th anniversary of the Trisha Brown Dance Company with a commemorative program of works highlighting Brown’s inventive choreographic range.
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JackJack’s Soul Food in Pittsfield Food
Searching for Elusive Barbecue
By: - Aug 04th, 2011Both together and separately the Pitt Bulls (Cisco and Pancho) have visited JackJack's Soul Food in Pittsfield. The one man operation of chef Terrell Ortiz has demonstrated flashes of brilliance and inspiration. But without extra help for prep a general lack of consistency. The full menu has not been available during our several visits. This is the second in an ongoing series surveying barbecue and soul food in the Berkshires.
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Tanglewood on Parade Music
Day Long Annual Family Event
By: - Aug 03rd, 2011Glorious summer weather resulted in a near capacity turnout in the Shed and on the lawn for one of the most popular programs of the season. The gates opened at 2 PM as families flocked to the Lenox estate for the annual Tanglewood on Parade. The evening program featuring four guest conductors and an accessible program culminated with blasting canons and bursting fireworks climaxing a massive rendering of Tchaikovsky's anthem The 1812 Overture. It was an occasion to rethink our damaged and endangered notions of patriotism and sacrifice.
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Bang on a Can at Mass MoCA Music
Annual Banglewood Music Marathon
By: - Aug 03rd, 2011Although the Bang on a Can Summer Festival and Institute is often referred to as Banglewood, the similarity really does end there. If attendance is down, that’s okay cause Bang On A Can isn’t banking on an audience to succeed. It may be a festival but it’s also an Institute and that means money generated by ticket sales is pretty much beside the point. Ticket sales to Bang On A Can are like subscriptions to newspapers or magazines, they don’t pay the bills, rather they provide a more-or-less accurate measure of public reception.
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Supernatural Wife at Jacob's Pillow Dance
U.S. Premire by Big Dance Theatre
By: - Aug 01st, 2011Although The Supernatural Wife, based on the Greek tragedy Alkestis by Euripides, was given its U.S. premiere, by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the multi media Big Dance Theatre has stretched to the snapping point our definition of dance.
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Kate Maguire of Berkshire Theatre Group Theatre
Midsummer Report on the Merger
By: - Jul 30th, 2011Kate Maguire is now half way through her first summer season as the Artistic Director and CEO of Berkshire Theatre Group. Since last November she presided over the merger of her Berkshire Theatre Festival with the Colonial Theatre. There was risk taking when Maguire mounted a brief run of Tommy starring Randy Harrison at the Colonial. We asked what she learned from the experience and how that impacts future planning for making the two theatres and three stages function as a combined entity. Her answers may surprise you.
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She Stoops to Conquer at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Pulling Out All the Stops for a Nicholas Martin Production
By: - Jul 29th, 2011For the past three seasons Nicholas Martin served as artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He returns this summer to direct the classic Oliver Goldsmith comedy She Stoops to Conquer. The current artistic director, Jenny Gersten, went all out in producing a sumptuous production of the 18th century play.
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The Best of Enemies at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Mark St. Germain Play Returns in October
By: - Jul 28th, 2011The production of Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session set the Barrington Stage record for most performances. It went on to Off Broadway where it has now passed 300 performances and is poised for a national and international tour. Now a new play by St. Germain has set a record for most tickets on the Main Stage for a drama. From July 21 through August 6 there were some 7,000 tickets sold.
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Steely Dan Rocks Tanglewood Music
No Rust on Aging Fagen and Becker
By: - Jul 27th, 2011On a mid week work night Steel Dan brought their pulsing strap on jazz rock to a near capacity audience at Tanglwood. The cerebral music and sardonic lyrics were just what the doctor ordered for cash strapped Tanglewood which is loosening up to allow the vulgarians into the tample of the hallowed grounds of the BSO in Lenox. Awesome. A good time was had by all and nothing was trashed.
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