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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Andy Rooney Signs Off Opinion
His 60 Minutes Expired at 92
By: - Nov 05th, 2011Tick, tick, tick. Sometimes late because of some damned football game. Or even worse, golf. I just hate golf. Never played the game. Like watching grass grow on TV. Then 60 Minutes. The best thing about Sunday night. Even though the commentators ain't what they used to be. I miss Mike Wallace. But Andy Rooney hung on and on and on. For a mean old crank he sure was lovable. Last month he signed off. Now gone at 92.
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WAM's The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls Theatre
Barrington Stage Company Stage 2, Nov. 3-20
By: - Oct 31st, 2011WAM Theatre’s November Production of ‘The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls’ is a comedy collectively written by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Martha Ross. The production will be the Berkshire Premiere of this Canadian play, which the Ottawa Citizen called ‘a piece of theatre with warmth, humour and irresistible broadness of heart’.
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Short Films at Williamstown Film Festival 2011 Film
An Overview and 21 Shorts
By: - Oct 31st, 2011The 13th Season of the Williamstown Film Festival ended amidst the first Nor Easter during Fall season 2011. Call it lucky 13 ! This is the sixth and final BFA article, highlighting some of the 21 Shorts, which were screened throughout the two week long festival.
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Barrington Stage Company Retires Debt to City Theatre
Pays Back Pittsfield's $500,000 Loan
By: - Oct 31st, 2011Five years ago the City of Pittsfield loaned $500,000 to Barrington Stage Copmany. Since relocating to the city the company has become financially secure. Artistic director Julianne Boyd announces that BSC has paid back its financial obligation to the city.
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Blizzard Disrupts Williamstown Film Festival Film
Jeff Kleiser and Dori Berinstein’s Carol Channing Documentary
By: - Oct 30th, 2011The sixth and final day of the 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival got clobbered by a freak October blizzard. There was a small audience for the superb Saturday program. For the annual lunch seminar Jeff Kleizer took us behind the scenes while spending two years creating special effects for a just released Bollywood action film Ra.One. The afternoon screening presented a documentary on three time Tony winner, Carol Channing created by three time Tony winner, Lori Berenstein. It was a win win for the audience.
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Never Stand Still at WFF Film
Film Celebrates Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
By: - Oct 29th, 2011Over a number of years there have been annual collaborations between Jacob's Pillow and Mass MoCA. As a part of the Williamstown Film Festival the New England premiere of Never Stand Still, directed by Ron Honsa, was screened in the Hunter Center of Mass MoCA. The documentary film includes a sketch of the founding of the festival by Ted Shawn in 1941 as well as a collage of its diverse programming.
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The Restaurateur Danny Meyer Film
Profiled in Roger Sherman Film
By: - Oct 28th, 2011The Restaurateur by Roger Sherman provided a tasty start for the second weekend of the Williamstown Film Festival. It was a nasty, stormy Thursday night but Images Cinema was packed for a film about New York entrepreneur Danny Meyer. He and Sherman were on had for a post film chat with organizer Steve Lawson. Then the audience decamped for a tasting party at Mezze.
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Chinglish by David Henry Hwang Theatre
Lost in Translation
By: - Oct 27th, 2011Tony winning playwright (M Butterfly) returns to Broadway with a comedy, Chinglish, after a successful run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. With no Holywood stars on the marquee, and almost the double the norm of production costs for a non musical, this play will depend on strong reviews and word of mouth for an extended run. It provides an often hilarious escape with a capable and enthusiastic cast.
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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage: Two People
Planning Several Seasons in Advance
By: - Oct 25th, 2011In planning plays for Barrington Stage Company artistic director Julianne Boyd relies on a small circle of trusted associates like composer/ lyricist, Bill Finn, actor Christoher Innvar, and playwright Mark St. Germain. Usually she is developing programming two and three years into the future. Since, ultimately, decisions fall on her shoulders she describes it as a lonely job.
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Sondheim’s Follies on Broadway until January 22 Theatre
Bernadette Peters and Phyllis Rogers Stone Star in Revival
By: - Oct 25th, 2011From 1971 Follies by Stephen Sondheim with a book by James Goldman is having a successful Broadway revival through January 22, 2012. It has been praised as an American masterpiece. As always Sondheim is demanding and rewarding for attentive audiences.
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Michael Conforti Discusses the Clark Art Institute Opinion
An Expanding Role for Contemporary Art with Mass MoCA
By: - Oct 24th, 2011Recently the Clark Art Institute held a press conference to discuss the final phase of a $145 million project for construction and renovation. We approached Michael Conforti, for the past 16 years the director of the museum, with follow up questions. In particular its relationship with Mass MoCA and future programming for modern and contemporary art. We also discussed concerns for the conservation risks of Parading the Relics as the Clark sends it treasures on an extended world tour.
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Williamstown Film Festival 2011 Film
The First of Two Weekends
By: - Oct 24th, 2011After three days and nights in the dark there is much to sort through in the particularly rich, varied, fertile and provocative 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival curated by its tasteful and insightful artistic director Steve Lawson. The festival continues through October 29.
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The Lie at Williamstown Film Festival Film
Opening Night of 13th Annual Event
By: - Oct 22nd, 2011For the opening night of the 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival, Steve Lawson, the executive director of WFF, selected a film he first viewed at Sundance. Before a capacity audience at Images Cinema, last night, Lawson introduced the feature film, The Lie, and followed that with a talk back and Q&A with the writer/ director/ star Joshua Leonard and his co star Jess Weixler.
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Most of The Clark Art Institute Closes in November Opinion
$145 Construction and Renovation by June 2014
By: - Oct 21st, 2011While the primary galleries of the Clark Art Museum will close in November for the final phase of a $145 expansion and renovation it will maintain programming on a limited basis. How that reflects on the norm of 200,000 annual visitors remains to be seen. Reducing the Clark in the mix will have a major impact on cultural tourism in the Northern Berkshires for the next few years. The construction, however, will create 500 temporary jobs with a $9 million economic impact.
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Pennie Brantley at National Association of Women Artists Fine Arts
NY Exhibition on View Through October 27
By: - Oct 20th, 2011The work of the realist painter Pennie Brantley is readily familiar from participation in Boston and Berkshire based exhibitions. She is currently the focus of a one woman exhibition at the venerable National Association of Women Artists. This stunning show remains on view through October 27.
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Lewis Black on Caris’s Peace People
Documentary Featured in Williamstown Film Festival
By: - Oct 20th, 2011Surgery for a brain tumor left the actress Caris Corfman with long term memory but no short term memory. In a struggle to overcome a cornucopia of health and memory issues she developed a one woman play. It is the culmination of a documentary film by Gaylen Ross which will be screened as a part of the Williamstown Film Festival. Her friend and one of the producers, the comedian Lewis Black, discussed Caris, his approach to comedy, and the play One Slight Hitch which was produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival this past summer.
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Frank Langella Roars in Man and Boy Theatre
Revival of Terence Rattigan's 1960s Drama
By: - Oct 18th, 2011In the centennial of his birth there is a revival of interest in the plays of the formerly celebrated Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911-1977). Because of an uncanny resemblance to the downfall of Bernard Madoff an unsuccessful play from 1963 Man and Boy is being restaged as a vehicle for another rip roaring, scorching performance by a larger than life Frank Langella.
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Grace Kelly and Phil Woods at the Colonial Music
7th Annual Pittsfield City Jazz Festival
By: - Oct 16th, 2011It was five years ago to the day when the prodigy alto player Grace Kelly first performed with alto master Phil Woods on stage at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. As a part of the 7th Annual Pittsfield City Jazz Festival the performance was recorded for future release on CD. The evening just blew our socks off.
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Venus in Fur Finally Reaches Broadway Theatre
Nina Ariadna's Rocket Ascent to Marquee Star
By: - Oct 15th, 2011It took some time but a sure hit has finally may its way from rave reviews off Broadway to the Great White Way. Nina Arianda was a graduate student when she first appeared in Venus in Fur. What came between was a Tony nominated role in Born Yesterday. Now her name is in lights.
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The Mountaintop Topples Martin Luther King Theatre
Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett Flirt on Broadway
By: - Oct 15th, 2011Veteran screen actor Samuel J. Jackson is making his Broadway debut as Dr. Martin Luther King in Katori Hall's play The Mountaintop. Jackson has been paired with Hollywood star Angela Bassett. The much anticipated show is well received and appreciated by audiences but has received mixed to negative reviews. Jackson is pitch perfect as Dr. King but Bassett as the maid/ mystery woman is all over the map.
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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company Opinion
Producing Plays That Matter
By: - Oct 10th, 2011Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield is winding down its most successful season. It started with the riveting one man play Zero in May. Surged through Guys and Dolls to launch high season and is currently bringing back the riveting drama The Best of Enemies which was a hit during the summer. This is part one of an extended dialogue with artistic director Julianne Boyd.
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Best of Enemies Returns Through October 16 Theatre
Riveting Drama at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Oct 09th, 2011By the end of this second run the riveting new drama The Best of Enemies by Mark St. Germain will have sold some 10,000 tickets which is an all time high for a drama presented by Barrington Stage Company. Critics are unanimous that this was the best new play of the Berkshire season. Don't miss out on this too brief second chance.
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War of the Worlds Theatre
Shakespeare & Company to Nov. 6
By: - Oct 08th, 2011The bad boy genius Orson Welles scared the crap out of Americans who tuned in late to his Mercury Theatre radio broadcast based on War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. In a play within a play, or broadcast within a broadcast, Shakespeare & Comnpany is re staging that legendary hoax as a spoofy comedic romp.
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Mary Zimmerman Doesn't Read Her Reviews Opinion
So What Else Is New
By: - Oct 06th, 2011In the third and final segment of a dialogue with adapter and director Mary Zimmerman she articulates why she doesn't read reviews of her work. She compares it to passengers telling the pilot how to fly the airplane. Where have we heard this before? It also focuses on the function of criticism. Does a well written review provide useful information to the potential audience? Or is the critic, as Zimmerman implies, simply a sadist intent on amusing the reader by attacking the best efforts of creators. Can there be a productive dialogue between a critic and a creator? Here we give it an honest try.
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Mary Zimmerman on Opera Opinion
Has Directed Three Productions for the Met
By: - Oct 06th, 2011Mary Zimmerman has adapted and directed the production of Candide which is enjoying a successful run at Boston's Huntington Theatre. During an extensive dialogue she discussed the controversy of her three Met productions which were harshly reviewed by critics and opera traditionalists. She is negotiating with the Met for a new production as well as revivals. She also spoke about working with and creating an opera with Philip Glass.
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