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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Tanglewood On Parade Music
Tribute to 30th Season of John Williams
By: - Aug 05th, 2010It was a glorious summer evening for Tanglewood on Parade. The popular annual concert featured a tribute to the music of John Williams. This is his 30th season. Some special friends joined him on stage including Keith Lockhart, Stafan Asbury, Julian Kuerti, Yo Yo Ma and James Taylor. It ended with a big bang of 1812 Overture followed by fireworks.
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Ariadne auf Naxos at Tanglewood Music
Rising Stars in Student Production
By: - Aug 03rd, 2010This season three of the Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows who performed in Ariadne auf Naxos are headed for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Audrey Elizabeth Luna, a scampy temptress and comedienne, as the delicious Zerbinetta makes her Met debut as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote. Emalie Savoy who performed the role of Ariadne/ The Prima Donna joins the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Cecelia Hall, the mezzo-soprano as the Young Composer will make her Met debut as the Second Priestess in Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride.
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Sea Marks by Gardner McKay Theatre
At Shakespeare & Company to September 4
By: - Aug 02nd, 2010It starts as an awkward correspondence between the Irish fisherman Colm (Walton Wilson) and the Welsh born Timothea (Kristin Wold) who works for a publishing house in Liverpool. The pen pals evolve into lovers. She surprises him by editing his love letters into Sea Sonnets a thin volume of verse. This is a charming and heart warming play presented at Shakespeare & Company in rotation through September 4.
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Leonard Nimoy’s Secret Self at Mass MoCA Fine Arts
Trekking Spock in North Adams
By: - Aug 01st, 2010There was a mob scene at Mass MoCA as fans awaited the arrival of Leonard Nimoy. The former Mr. Spock from Star Trek was having his first museum level exhibition. Many who volunteered to be photographed as their Secret Selves were on hand for the celebrity event. It was also the weekend of the annual Bang on the Can so MoCA was going gang busters.
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Writers Conference Hosted by The Mount Word
Conjuring the Spirit of Edith Wharton
By: - Jul 31st, 2010While struggling to overcome debt that threatened The Mount with bankruptcy its director, Susan Wissler, is moving forward with programming and development. Recently Edith Wharton's mansion and estate was the site for the first annual Berkshire WordFest at the Mount.
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Berkshire WordFest at the Mount Word
First Annual Event in Lenox
By: - Jul 31st, 2010Edith Wharton's Estate & Gardens in Lenox, Massachusetts held its first annual writer's conference: WORDFEST. It was a rich experience by any measure and had surpassed high expectations at the end, on July 25th. Poets, writers and all who came and supported the event mingled easily and shared of themselves. It was a celebration of the written English language then and now.
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Our Town at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Campbell Scott Anchors Martin’s All Star Cast
By: - Jul 30th, 2010For his final production as artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival Nicholas Martin has put 40 actors on stage including many community members. There is an all star cast starting with the magnificent Campbell Scott as the Stage Manager. Joining him are such WTF regulars as Becky Ann Baker and her husband Dylan Baker, John Rubenstein and Jessica Hecht. An actual Williams Professor, Sam Crane, plays, guess what, a Professor..
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Tony Nominee Jessica Hecht Theatre
In Our Town for 7th Williamstown Season
By: - Jul 29th, 2010It has been a great year for veteran actress Jessica Hecht. In addition to Brighton Beach Memoirs her second Broadway play this season, View from the Bridge, earned her a Tony nomination as Best Actress. She also had a riveting role in an episode of the TV hit The Good Wife. For her 7th season at the Williamstown Theatre Festival she is appearing in Nicholas Martin's all star production of Our Town.
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Wrapped at the Berkshire Museum Fine Arts
Nancy Graves, Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers, Ven Vosiey
By: - Jul 28th, 2010The main event is Wrapped: Search for the Essential Mummy. In an adjoining gallery is a thumbnail Nancy Graves: Journey to North Africa. The elegant and spacious Crane Gallery features a collaboration Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers: Spatial Relationships. The newly launched Wider Window Gallery features artist in residence Ven Vosiey’s Artifact .
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John Oliver at the Colonial Theatre
Standup Guy Appears August 14
By: - Jul 28th, 2010John Oliver has been a writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart since 2006. As a result of his popularity on The Daily Show, Comedy Central asked John to write and star in his own one hour stand-up special, Terrifying Times, which premiered in April 2008 and was subsequently released on DVD. In 2008 John starred in the Mike Myer’s movie, The Love Guru and is currently appearing in a recurring role in the NBC series, Community.
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Life Is Cabaret My Friends Theatre
At American Repertpory Theatre to Oct. 29
By: - Jul 26th, 2010The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) opens its 2010/11 Season with Kander and Ebb’s CABARET, directed by Steven Bogart, with musical direction by Lance Horne and movement by Steven Mitchell Wright, starring Amanda Palmer as the Emcee. Set and costume design is by David Israel Reynoso,lighting design by Nick Vargelis, and sound design by Clive Goodwin.
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Yasmina Reza’s Art Theatre
Zesty Production at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jul 26th, 2010Since its 1995 Parisian premiere Art by Yasmina Reza has been translated into 30 languages and performed all around he world. On Broadway Reza has won Tonys for Art as well as God of Carnage. Art was presented as a staged reading at the Clark in collaboration with Williamstown Theatre Festival several months ago. It is presented at Barrington Stage Company this summer. There will be a free staged reading at Mass MoCA on August 4. We wonder why this play is so universally admired?
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After the Revolution at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Premiere of Amy Herzog’s Riveting Marxist Play
By: - Jul 23rd, 2010A family of Marxist activists is thrown into turmoil when in 1999 it was revealed that its patriarch was among 349 identified through decoded wartime messages to have been collaborators and spies for the Soviet Union. Emma has founded an organization named for her disgraced grandfather. This is the background for the superb play After the Revolution by Amy Herzog in its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. It is by far the best new play of a rich and diverse Berkshire season.
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Pool Boy at Barrington Stage Company Theatre
Musical Premiere Drowns in Pittsfield
By: - Jul 22nd, 2010The much anticipated world premiere of a musical Pool Boy by Nikos Tsakalakos and Janet Allard ended up drowning at Barrington Stage. It is slated for intensive care and an extreme makeover if it hopes to have legs beyond this ambitious, zesty but messy production in Pittsfield. With a lot of work there may yet be life after this D.O.A. debut.
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Ryan Trecartin at LA MoCA Fine Arts
Any Ever July 18 to October 17
By: - Jul 21st, 2010The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Any Ever, the American premiere of artist Ryan Trecartin’s 2007â€"10 body of work, July 18 through October 17, 2010, at MOCA Pacific Design Center. "Ryan Trecartin has invented a new cinematic language that corresponds to the way people experience the Internet. His work has inspired a younger generation of filmmakers, as well as other artists,†comments incoming MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch.
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Aspenlieder Returns in Bad Dates Theatre
Hit Show at Shakespeare & Company to Sept. 12
By: - Jul 21st, 2010Elizabeth Aspenlieder who won an Elliot Norton Award for Best Solo Performanceâ€"returns this summer for a special , limited run in a freshly re-imagined production directed by Eric Tucker (Women of Will this season , Pinter’s Mirror 2009). Haley Walker. The show that set the Berkshires astir in 2009â€"and nettarismatic heroine of Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates , possesses a sharp wit and an unsinkable determination to pursue the promise of new love , even while providing for her daughter.
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The 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music Music
Tanglewood August 12-16
By: - Jul 21st, 2010The 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music, August 12-16, will be the culmination of a season-long celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s renowned summer music academy for young professional musicians, with performances of works by the TMC’s distinguished composition faculty over the course of its history.
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Betty Buckley at the Colonial August 11 Music
Broadway in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 21st, 2010Betty Buckley received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination for her interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
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Bill T. Jones at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Dance
Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray
By: - Jul 20th, 2010Bill T. Jones, who recently won a Tony Award for Best Choreography for his current Broadway hit Fela!, will offer insights on the concept and development of Fondly when he visits Saratoga Springs on Friday, July 23. Jones will present a Personal Talk at 6:30 p.m. at the National Museum of Dance. The Talk is free for ticketholders to the July 28 performance of Fondly; cost for the general public is $5.
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Guardsman at Berkshire Theatre Festival Theatre
Smiles for a Summer Night
By: - Jul 20th, 2010Just for laughs the Berkshire Theatre Festival is presenting Ferenc Molnar's hilarious period comedy The Guardsman. It stars the husband and wife team of Jayne Atkinson and Michael Gill playing a pair of actors. After six months of marriage he hopes to test her in a mock seduction by a smarmy Russian Prince.
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Audra McDonald at Tanglewood Music
Broadway in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 19th, 2010Broadway star and four time Tony winner, Audra McDonald is on the run. It took some 26 hours of travel time, including multiple delays in Mexico City, to reach a scheduled Tanglewood concert. From the stage of sold out Ozawa Hall she announced that she was about to perform for the Obama family. Despite all that jet lag she settled into a stunning and intimate evening of show tunes. The evening was a highlight of what is proving to be a sensational season in the Berkshires.
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Pepon Osorio Drowned in a Glass of Water Fine Arts
North Adams Installation in Former Car Dealership
By: - Jul 18th, 2010The Williams College Museum of Art is collaborating with North Adams and DownStreet. There is a community derived project with the artist, Pepon Osorio. He has created an installation of found objects rotating on a carousel. It will be displayed this summer in an abandoned car dealership. In the fall it will be packed up and reinstalled at WCMA. We discussed the project with WCMA director, Lisa Corrin.
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Michael Tilson Thomas at Tanglewood Music
Mozart and Stravinsky Launch the Weekend
By: - Jul 17th, 2010Stepping in for the ailing James Levine, the sprightly and masterful Michael Tilson Thomas is becoming a familiar presence at Tanglewood. For the second weekend he conducted Stravinsky and Mozart on Friday night and returns on Saturday with more Mahler. On Sunday afternoon Pops features Alec Baldwin and Arlo Guthrie as guest artists. In one of the most anticipated concerts of the season Audra McDonald appears in Ozawa Hall on Sunday evening.
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Damn Yankees at The Mac Haydn Theatre Theatre
Whatever Lola Wants in Chatham, New York
By: - Jul 16th, 2010Yes those Damn Yankees. The perennial favorite of musical theatre will be staged at the Mac Haydn Theatre in Chatham New York from July 22 to August 1. Watch the pinstripes give their all in the pennant race. What fun.
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Six Degrees of Separation at Williamstown Theatre Festival Theatre
Introducing Ato Essandoh
By: - Jul 16th, 2010The 1993 film, based on John Guare's 1990 play Six Degrees of Separtation made a star of Will Smith in the role of the hustler and con artist Paul. Based on the stunning and witty performance of Ato Essandoh we again witness an emerging star in the riveting role. Essandoh, who impersonates the son of Sidney Poitier to gain access to the homes and resources of wealthy New Yorkers, is the invaluable glue that holds together an otherwise uneven production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Seeing Essandoh as Paul assures potential bragging rights for years to come.
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