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Charles Giuliano

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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:

  • Indecent by Paula Vogel Front Page

    San Francisco Playhouse and Co-produced with Yiddish Theatre Ensemble,

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 01st, 2022

    The 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.  

  • Grace Kelly and U Conn Jazz Ensemble Front Page

    Stationery Factory in Dalton, Mass

    By: Ed Bride - Oct 01st, 2022

    All 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.

  • Herman Melville and the Berkshires Front Page

    60,000,000 Copies of Moby-Dick Have Been Published

    By: Ralph Brill - Sep 29th, 2022

    By 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!

  • Rachel Linsky Debuts Dance Hidden Front Page

    Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Black Box Theater

    By: BCA - Sep 29th, 2022

    Boston-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.

  • Dance Theatre of Harlem: Sounds of Hazel Front Page

    Works & Process at the Guggenheim

    By: Guggenheim - Sep 28th, 2022

    Sounds 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.

  • Britten's the Prodigal Son Front Page

    Boston- and U.K.-based Enigma Chamber Opera

    By: Enigma - Sep 28th, 2022

    The 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.

  • Renovated Huntington Theatre Reopens Front Page

    August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

    By: Huntington - Sep 28th, 2022

    The Huntington announces the casting and creative team for the highly anticipated revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, directed by Lili-Anne Brown. Wilson’s masterpiece serves as the inaugural production of the newly renovated Huntington Theatre and runs from October 14 – November 13, 2022, with digital access to the filmed performance available until November 27, 2022.  

  • MFA Free on Monday, October 10 Front Page

    Indigenous People’s Day

    By: MFA - Sep 28th, 2022

    On Monday, October 10, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), offers free admission and activities all day as part of an annual Indigenous People’s Day celebration. Visitors are invited to enjoy music and dance, drop in on a variety of engaging family art-making activities, and explore galleries showcasing 20th-century Native art from the Southwest as well as Indigenous artworks from across the U.S. and Canada

  • Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Front Page

    San Francisco Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 28th, 2022

    But, oh, that music.  Those haunting melodies and the euphonic lilt of the language produce a signature Russian experience.  It should be no surprise that this is currently the world’s most produced Slavic opera, given its many attractions.  Happily, it remains in the repertory of San Francisco Opera, which offers a striking and highly enjoyable rendition.  

  • Experiments in Augmented Reality Front Page

    Installation Space North Adams

    By: Installation Space - Sep 27th, 2022

    Augmented reality (AR) is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. AR users experience a real-world environment with generated perceptual information overlaid on top of it. Freeman and Lewy have installed their distinctive augmented reality works at the Installation Space gallery, as well as at access points in downtown North Adams public spaces.

  • Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues By Charles Smith Front Page

    Decades Old Play Revised for Shakespere & Company

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 27th, 2022

    For its fall production Shakespeare & Company is presenting the revised, heart-warming, one act play Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues by Charles Smith. We left with many pull-out talking points about vaudeville, ragtime, aging, racism, welfare and most importantly the never ending human comedy.

  • Sunset Boulevard Front Page

    Music Theatre of Connecticut

    By: Karen Isaacs - Sep 26th, 2022

    Have you forgotten this show? It is based on the classic 1950 film noir of the same name which tells the story of an aging silent screen actress deluded that she will make a comeback and the struggling screenwriter she hires to help her with a script. Add in music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and you had a smash hit in both London and New York.

  • All of Me by Laura Winters at Barrington Stage Front Page

    World Premiere for Award Winning Drama

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 26th, 2022

    In 2017, Madison Ferris was the first disabled actor on Broadway as Laura in Glass Menagerie. This astonishing performer stars in All of Me by Laura Winters. By Laura Winters. It is having a World Premiere of the Burman New Play Award Winner at Barrington Stage Company.

  • The Impossible Dream a Kosher Muffaletta Food

    Celebrating Rosh Hashanah in New Orleans

    By: Alan Smason - Sep 26th, 2022

    For people living in New Orleans or visitors to the city, an Italian specialty, the muffaletta – a sandwich composed of various processed meats, cheese and olive salad layered upon a huge round loaf of sesame seeded Italian bread – has been both a staple for locals and a much ballyhooed treat to be sampled by tourists. Here is a kosher version for Rosh Hashanah.

  • Rachel Portesi: Standing Still Front Page

    Griffin Museum of Photography

    By: Griffin - Sep 23rd, 2022

    Rachel Portesi: Standing Still, a solo exhibition of works by artist Rachel Portesi, featuring a selection of collodion tintypes made with large-format vintage cameras that explore the evolving lifelong complexities of female identity. The works in Standing Still are part of the artist's ongoing series of “hair portraits.”

  • BSO Launches Season Front Page

    Andris Nelsons Leads the Orchestra

    By: BSO - Sep 22nd, 2022

    Andris Nelsons, marking his ninth season as BSO Music Director, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the opening concert of the 2022–23 season on September 22 at Symphony Hall. Pianist Awadagin Pratt appears for the first time with the BSO, performing a work written for him by American composer Jessie Montgomery (Rounds, for piano and string orchestra) and J.S. Bach's Concerto in A, BWV 1055.

  • The Moholy-Nagy Estate Front Page

    Collaboration with Web-3 Photography Organization Fellowship

    By: Moholy-Nagy - Sep 22nd, 2022

    The Moholy-Nagy Estate announces collaboration with web-3 photography organization Fellowship to launch its first NFT collection 

  • Lear Written by Marcus Gardley Front Page

    Cal Shakes and Oakland Theater Project & Play On Shakespeare

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 19th, 2022

    Marcus Gardley’s “Lear” is phenomenal in conception and breathtaking in execution.

  • Theatre in Conneticut Front Page

    Moving Forward from Shutdowns

    By: Karen Isaacs - Sep 18th, 2022

    The fall theater scene in Connecticut is starting. It will include everything from hard-hitting comedy/drama such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Tony-winning musicals – 42nd Street, Fun Home and Sunset Blvd and everything in between. In fact, two shows – the Great Gatsby and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? are getting two productions each.

  • Antony and Cleopatra by John Adams Front Page

    San Francisco Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 17th, 2022

    The opera is set in the 1930s, offering shades of the Hollywood glamor and fascist depravity of that time.  This conceit does allow for the visual appeal of period newsreels projections and a more varied look in Constance Hoffman’s appealing and fashionable costumery, but the conceptual rationale for the time shift is unclear. 

  • Jeanne Renaud (1928 - 2022) Front Page

    Montreal Artist and Choreographer

    By: Claude Gosselin - Sep 16th, 2022

    Jeanne Renaud the Montreal artist, dancer and choreographer has passed away at 94. She created choreography for the film Brèves histoires de pierres muettes (2018) and le Projet Feldman/Renaud à la Salle Bourgie in 2021, with the dancers Louise Bédard and Marc Boivin.

  • Still LIfe by Emily Mann Front Page

    The Ancram Opera House

    By: Ancram - Sep 15th, 2022

    The Ancram Opera House, in collaboration with Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company, presents STILL LIFE,  by internationally renowned playwright, director and producer Emily Mann, and directed by Mann’s good friend and protegee, Jade King Carroll. The play is a searing and revealing documentary play about the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam conflict on a former marine, his wife, and mistress.

  • Arthur Word

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 13th, 2022

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  • The Marriage of Figaro Front Page

    produced by Opera San Jose

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 13th, 2022

    Perhaps more than any other, “Marriage” is considered to be the finest comic opera ever written, if not the finest opera altogether. 

  • '62 Center at Williams College Front Page

    The 2022-2023 Season

    By: Williams - Sep 12th, 2022

    The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance unveiled its live, in-person performances celebrating diverse and challenging theatre, music, and dance programming for the Williams College community and beyond.

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