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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Frances McDormand in Good People Theatre
Southie Shines on Broadway
By: - Mar 30th, 2011After enduring the tough winter months there were signs of life on Broadway. There were droves of tourists on line for half price tickets in Times Square. Mostly tourists want those splashy musicals. But you jump the queue for a drama. There were no deals, however, for the mostly sold out run of Good People. We paid full freight for a lousy seat at the back of the house. But it was worth every penny to enjoy a fabulous performance by Frances McDormand.
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TFANA’s Grisaille Macbeth Theatre
Arin Arbus Directs John Douglas Thompson and Annika Boras
By: - Mar 29th, 2011Under the skillful direction, Arin Arbus, Theatre for a New Audience is presenting a version of Macbeth notable for its naturalism, clarity, passion and compelling humanity. A superb cast is electrified by the galvanic, sexually charged performances of John Douglas Thompson and his leading Lady Macbeth, Annika Boras. This is a compelling new paradigm for the perennial Scottish Play. Prepare to be amazed.
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Boston Philharmonic Spring Concerts Music
Benjamin Zander Conducts with Cellist Natalia Gutman
By: - Mar 20th, 2011Benjamin Zander, Music Director and Conductor of The Boston Philharmonic, will present the orchestra’s spring concert series featuring Shostakovich: Second Cello Concerto with Special Guest cellist Natalia Gutman, and Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet on Saturday, April 30 at 8:00 PM at Jordan Hall in Boston and Sunday, May 1 at 3:00 PM and Monday, May 2 at 7:00 PM at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge.
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Jon Anderson of Yes at Somerville Theatre Music
Rock Concert on April 23
By: - Mar 20th, 2011Yes was one of the more progressive art rock bands. Its former leader Jon Anderson has a new CD. He is touring with a stop at the Someville Theate on Saturday, April 24. He will perform solo in a Boston-area concert. On the heels of turning 66 on October 25, 2010, and the recent finish of a triumphant U.K Tour with keyboardist Rick Wakeman (a longtime YES band mate) he celebrate the release of their new album, The Living Tree.
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Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera Music
Tod Machover Production at Cutler Majestic Theatre
By: - Mar 19th, 2011“Death and the Powers†was created during the past few years and is experiencing its American premiere this week in Boston. (It was premiered in Monaco and will be presented in Chicago in April.) It is a high-tech work on a science fiction theme, but it also features a couple of lyrical arias and a love story.
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The Ilona Kudina Jazz Quintet Music
Performing at Scullers April 6
By: - Mar 19th, 2011The Ilona Jazz Quintet, spans two generations and two continents featuring legendary drummer Billy Hart, trumpet titan and Berklee faculty member Greg Hopkins together with two bright lights of the younger generation of jazz players--pianist Vardan Ovsepian and bassist Akili Jamal Haynes, Kudina will perform at Scullers Jazz Club [DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, MA 02134] on Tuesday, April 6 at 8:00 PM.
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Spring Arts Listings Opinion
Covering Boston and Beyond
By: - Mar 19th, 2011Our Boston correspondent Barbara Brilliant provides a dense schedule of arts events in Boston. The listings provide capsule and links for box office connections. Events range from Hair and Educating Rita to a complete breakdown of the Boston Pops.
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NY Times States Pay to Play Opinion
No More Free Lunch
By: - Mar 18th, 2011The New York Times today in an e mail blast is announcing that it will no longer put out for nothing. While it makes sense to charge for world class content there is a glut of free information on line. Why does this feel like a desperate last stand for the once mighty media giant. What is not evident in this move is the potential decline of readership and an erosion of authority and influence. While older Times readers may well pony up it is unlikely that anyone under 40 will bother and the Times, accordingly, has abandoned its next generation of potential readers.
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Amy Brenneman at A.R.T. Theatre
New Play May 24 to 29
By: - Mar 18th, 2011The American Repertory Theater welcomes actress Amy Brenneman back onto the Loeb Stage, with her autobiographical show Mouth Wide Open, created with longtime collaborator Sabrina Peck.  The limited run is presented May 24 through 29. Soulful, transcendent, laugh-out-loud funny, Amy Brenneman (Private Practice, Judging Amy, Heat) returns to her theatrical roots in this exuberant theater piece drawn from her own life experience that juxtaposes a hunger for the spiritual with the externalized pressures of celebrity
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Hancock Shaker Village Launches Season Fine Arts
Susan Merrill Exhibit Opens April 10
By: - Mar 17th, 2011Hancock Shaker Village kicks off its 2011 season with a painting exhibition titled “Black & White Barnyard†by Stockbridge-based artist Susan Merrill. The exhibition will run during “Baby Animals on the Shaker Farm†April 16 through May 8 from noon to 4pm daily in the Poultry House. It will feature paintings of animals with black and white markings from the Village and surrounding local farms.
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Foghat at the Colonial Music
Band Rock's April 2
By: - Mar 17th, 2011New York rock band Foghat will take the stage of the Colonial for a one night only concert event Saturday, April 2 at 8pm .Foghat is a hard-rocking British quartet that was founded in the early 1970s and has toured relentlessly ever since. Their hard work has earned them seven Gold records, one Platinum record, one Double-Platinum record and a legion of loyal fans around the world.
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Lottery for Broadway's Bengal Tiger Theatre
Robin Williams Show in Previews
By: - Mar 16th, 201121 orchestra seats for $27 will be available by lottery for every performance of BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St.). The show stars comedian Robin Williams.
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Joyce Melander-Dayton at June Kelly Gallery Fine Arts
Extravagant Constructions
By: - Mar 15th, 2011The title of Santa Fe based artist Joyce Melander-Dayton’s exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery, through March 29, in New York City reads Extravagant Constructions. It’s an apt title, especially when you are standing up close and studying the artist’s intricately bejeweled craftsmanship and her use of materials and patterning. Think Faberge Egg or the Gobelin Tapestries.
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Katharina Grosse at Mass Moca Fine Arts
One Floor Up More Highly
By: - Mar 15th, 2011The Berlin based artist, Katharina Grosse, has created an enormous, psychedelic, arctic landscape, One Floor Up More Highly. It will remain on view in the vast Building Five of Mass MoCA in North Adams, Mass. through October. While spectacular to look at we wonder what it's all about.
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Soho Rep Spring Gala 2011 Honoring Marian Seldes. People
May 2nd Manhattan's Highline Ballroom
By: - Mar 14th, 2011Blythe Danner, Ted Danson, Parker Posey, Peter Dinklage, Lili Taylor, Michael Stuhlbarg and more to perform at the Soho Rep SPRING GALA 2011 honoring Marian Seldes. Hosted by Tim Blake Nelson the evening will also feature musical performances by Jomama Jones & The Lisps.
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Les 7 doigts de la main Theatre
Return to ArtsEmeson by Popular demand
By: - Mar 14th, 2011Due to the overwhelming demand generated by their short January visit to Boston, ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage is pleased to announce the return of the French Canadian contemporary circus company Les 7 doigts de la main (The 7 Fingers) performing PSY (pronounced P.S.Y.) for a two week summer run.
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I'm Not a Feminist, But....: Theatre
WAM Theatre in Pittsfield March 14
By: - Mar 14th, 2011As part of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, WAM Theatre presents a one-night only showing of the Russell Sage Creative and Performing Arts Production of 'I'm not a Feminist, but....'. This ensemble presentation, written by Russell Sage college women working with director Leigh Strimbeck, looks at the topic of feminism in the lives of young people today using humor, irreverence, dance, song, and serious real-life monologues. The event takes place on Monday March 14, 2011 at 7 p.m.
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Richard Rand of the Clark Art Institute Fine Arts
Curator Discusses Improving a Great Collection
By: - Mar 14th, 2011For its size the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is regarded as one of the finest and best endowed regional museums. Now in another phase of expansion, the Clark is also endowing positions and selling a Renoir for $15 million. The sale of a "redundant' Renoir, as chief curator, Richard Rand describes it, will be use for yet to be determined acquisitions. In a depressed art market, it is an opportune time to have cash on hand.
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Handel's Agrippina by Boston Lyric Opera Music
Hilarious Decadence and Depravity in Nero's Rome
By: - Mar 13th, 2011A contemporary production of George Frideric Handel’s comic opera “Agrippina,†which premiered in Venice in 1709 and concerns the shenanigans of a young Nero and his ambitious mother, the lady of the title, is going to be a hit. And it is. Of course it helps that the music is by Handel, one of the greatest artists of any age to set words to music.
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Berkshire Critic Larry Murray Seven Opinion
It's a Wrap
By: - Mar 12th, 2011In this final installment of their dialogue Murray and Giuliano discuss cutting edge theatre which is a mainstay of America Repertory Theatre in Cambridge. And why there is nothing like that in the Berkshires. Murray defines an approach as providing information to readers to help in making informed choices. With so much being offered this summer it is less about competition and more about a critical mass of superb theatre.
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Clark Art Institute Aso O. Tavitian Collection Fine Arts
Eye to Eye European Paintings 1450-1850
By: - Mar 11th, 2011Aso O. Tavitian, a trustee of the Clark Art Institute and resident of New York and Stockbridge only started to collect Old Master portraits in the past several years. A selection of his acquisitions are included in the fascinating exhibition Eye to Eye European Paintings 1450-1850 which is on view through March 27.
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Roger McGuinn at the Clark April 9 Music
Byrds Founder Flies Solo in Williamstown
By: - Mar 11th, 2011Roger McGuinn, the co-founder of the legendary group The Byrds, will perform a special solo concert at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, April 9 at 8:00 pm. McGuinn, the founding father of folk-rock, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as the leader of The Byrds, one of the most influential bands in modern musical history.
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Mahaiwe Spring Program Theatre
Ricky Skaggs to Paul Taylor Dance
By: - Mar 11th, 2011Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington will present an eclectic array of April and May programming, including some of the world's top bluegrass, reggae, stand-up comedy, modern dance, flamenco, opera, theater, and movies.
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Lucia di Lammermoor March 19 Music
Met Live in HD at the Clark Art Institute
By: - Mar 10th, 2011Gaetano Donizetti’s tragic masterpiece, Lucia di Lammermoor, comes to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 19 at 1 pm, live from the Metropolitan Opera as part of the Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD.
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Colonial Theatre Updates Theatre
Performances Added to 2011 Season
By: - Mar 10th, 2011The Colonial Theatre's live music additions include the underground hip-hop icon Talib Kweli on July 22, Jersey Shore rock legends Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes on August 25, the unique Celtic sounds of the Tartan Terrors on October 21 and the return of the popular community production Romance, Soul & Rock N’ Roll on October 28 and 29. The family programming will begin with the Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats on June 11 and The Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical on December 4.
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