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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42nd Street at Goodspeed Front Page
A Timeless Musical
By: - Oct 22nd, 2022The projections and the equipment used – which I’m told were very expensive – by Shawn Duan really helped to create the setting and the locations without taking up room on the stage. I wanted to “ooh” and “aah” at them
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Laundry Day Word
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Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites Front Page
San Francisco Opera
By: - Oct 20th, 2022“Dialogues” is based on the true story of 16 Carmelite nuns of Compiègne who were guillotined in 1794 during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror because of their unwillingness to compromise their faith. Historically, the nuns’ singing as they ascended the gallows quieted the bloodthirsty crowd that gathered at these beheadings. In less than two weeks, Robespierre’s degenerate reign ended with his execution at the guillotine.
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Critic Jack Lyons at 91 Front Page
Covered California Theatre and Film
By: - Oct 19th, 2022We met in Chicago in 2012 as new members of American Theatre Critics Association. Since then critic Jack Lyons and I have shared a decade of theatre. He generously reposted to this site reviews first appearing in Desert Weekly News in Palm Springs, California. At the ripe age of 91 he passed recently. With credits in writing, producing and directing, he was a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild.
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Rare Earle Pilgrim Painting Discovered Front Page
1955 Portrait of Composer Samuel Foster Hall
By: - Oct 18th, 2022Earle Montrose Pilgrim (1923-1976) was an American artist whose work is within the stylistic milieu of Abstract Expressionism and Figurative Expressionism.Working in the early 1950s until the mid 1970s, Pilgrim's style is characterized by figuration informed by abstraction.The artist fluctuated between epic, large-scale compositions and intimate canvases and worked with a variety of media.
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Sex With Strangers by Laura Eason Front Page
Produced by San Jose Stage
By: - Oct 18th, 2022Laura Eason’s “Sex With Strangers” explores the concept of public versus private behavior and much more. At first, it seems that this may simply be an amusing story, but the longer it plays, the deeper it gets, exposing many provocative layers, peppered with humor and conflict. San Jose Stage presents a sensationally acted and directed production of this powerhouse two hander.
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LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography Front Page
Boston Museum of Fine Arts: October 9 to January 16, 2023
By: - Oct 18th, 2022In 1936 Henry Luce bought Life Magazine and transformed it into a publication where pictures told the story. At his command to convey a narrow white supremacist fantasy of America's global dominance he employed the legendary photo journalists of his generation. Luce also published Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine and later Sports Illustrated. With a weekly circulation in the millions Life initially had a cover price of ten cents which at that time got you a cup of coffee. LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts captures its essence with an engaging but ultimately disappointing exhibition.
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6th Berkshire Theatre Awards Front Page
Nominees Announced
By: - Oct 17th, 2022The purpose of the BTCA and the Berkshire Theatre Awards is to promote and celebrate the quality and diversity of theatre in the region. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on the evening of November 14 at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield.
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Front Page
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Oct 14th, 2022The play by Simon Levy (who has also adapted two other Fitzgerald novels to play form) follows the book. While there have been other stage versions, this one, written in 2006 seems now to be the standard.
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The Music of Mothers by Victoria Evans Erville Front Page
Produced by TheatreF1rst
By: - Oct 14th, 2022The playwright, Victoria Evans Erville, who also directs, dispatches a dizzying number of important social messages and does so in an entertaining and involving manner. The central theme considers the effects of politics Victoria Evans Erville on the two lifelong friends, and while May remains consistent throughout, Ethyl offers more interest as a character because she evolves, and not always in one direction or with consistency, which makes for a more intriguing person and reflects realism.
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The Obama Portraits at the MFA Front Page
On View Through October 30
By: - Oct 14th, 2022For the first time presidential paintings are by and of people of color. Kehinde Wiley’s depicted President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald painted Michelle. In the last of five stops the tour of portraits ends at the Museum of Fine Arts on October 30.
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Modernist Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan Front Page
Appointed Curator at Buffalo AKG Art Museum
By: - Oct 14th, 2022The Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) has announced the promotion of Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan, a specialist in modern and contemporary art and one of the world’s leading experts on art and technology, to the position of Curator.
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Brian Zink Word
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Cabot's Cove Word
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Where Locals Eat Front Page
Getting Off the Beach
By: - Oct 10th, 2022To find the best, fresh seafood you have to get off the honky-tonk beach and head inland to where the locals dine.
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Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED Front Page
MoCA World Premiere Co-presented with Jacob's Pillow
By: - Oct 04th, 2022Groundbreaking choreographer Shamel Pitts doesn’t dance around big issues—instead, he dances into them.
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The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti Front Page
Produced by Livermore Valley Opera
By: - Oct 03rd, 2022Although Donizetti concocted this superficially light-hearted confection, “Elixir” is a serious delight from curtain to curtain, both as an entertainment and as a great work of composition. As we have come to expect, Livermore Valley Opera once again punches above its weight with a totally appealing production that hits all the right notes, literally and figuratively.
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MIT Appoints Janet Echelman Distinguished Visiting Artist Front Page
The artist Will Develop New Work in 2022-23
By: - Oct 03rd, 2022Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce visual artist Janet Echelman as a 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Artist at MIT. The appointment, hosted by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) will begin this fall.
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Seascape By Edward Albee Front Page
Gamely Directed by Eric Hill for Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Oct 02nd, 2022Leapin Lizards! Berkshire Theatre Group has mounted Seascape Edward Albee's absurdist answer to Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot. Albee, one of America's leading playwrights won a Pulitizer for it (one of three) but it was a flop with critics and audiences. The Broadway run ended after just 65 performances. Hit or miss you can draw your own conclusions based on the production directed by Eric Hill.
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Indecent by Paula Vogel Front Page
San Francisco Playhouse and Co-produced with Yiddish Theatre Ensemble,
By: - Oct 01st, 2022The genesis of “Indecent” begins in Warsaw in 1906. Young author Sholem Asch has written a Yiddish play called “God of Vengeance,” which acts as a play-within-a-play in “Indecent,” as scenes from the former appear throughout the latter. Portrayed passionately and with grand gestures by Billy Cohen, Asch entreats other writers to participate in a table reading. After the reading, I. L. Peretz, Warsaw’s most distinguished Yiddish author, tells Asch to burn the play. Despite contentiousness and only a modicum of support, a Yiddish language company produces the play.
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Grace Kelly and U Conn Jazz Ensemble Front Page
Stationery Factory in Dalton, Mass
By: - Oct 01st, 2022All signs point to a full house for Grace Kelly’s evening of big band music. The young lion of jazz headlines with the University of Connecticut Jazz Ensemble on Sunday evening, Oct. 9.
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Herman Melville and the Berkshires Front Page
60,000,000 Copies of Moby-Dick Have Been Published
By: - Sep 29th, 2022By the 1930s, Herman Melville's novel became an example of Great American Writing and was studied in many University English Programs. The interest in Herman Melville continues such that since his death on this day (September 29) in 1891, more than 60,000,000 copies of MOBY-DICK have been published around the world!
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Rachel Linsky Debuts Dance Hidden Front Page
Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Black Box Theater
By: - Sep 29th, 2022Boston-based contemporary dance artist Rachel Linsky debuts “Hidden,” the latest in her ongoing choreographic series ZACHOR that seeks to preserve stories of WWII Holocaust survivors through dance. “Hidden” is inspired by the story of Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster who at 10 years old was hidden from the Nazis in a Polish family’s attic for two years.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: Sounds of Hazel Front Page
Works & Process at the Guggenheim
By: - Sep 28th, 2022Sounds of Hazel, choreographer Tiffany Rea-Fisher’s is a new ballet inspired by the life of virtuoso classical and jazz pianist, singer, and civil rights activist Hazel Scott.
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Britten's the Prodigal Son Front Page
Boston- and U.K.-based Enigma Chamber Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2022The Boston- and U.K.-based Enigma Chamber Opera continues its exploration of chamber works by Benjamin Britten with two performances of the English composer’s biblically inspired 1968 opera “The Prodigal Son.” The work is the third of Britten's three Parables for Church Performance; Enigma mounted the first, “Curlew River,” to critical acclaim last fall. This new production is directed by Artistic Director Kirsten Z. Cairns, who finds in the universal story of parent/child reconciliation and forgiveness a balm for an often bitterly divided society.
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