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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The Pajama Game Front Page
Produced by 42nd Street Moon at the Gateway Theatre
By: - Jun 06th, 2022Although “The Pajama Game” may not come across as an expressly political play, it was written when over 300 entertainers were still blacklisted as a result of House Un-American Activities Committee investigations. The central clash is certainly a classic between capital and labor. “Old Man” Hasler, the factory head, is played unsympathetically for his dishonesty and for his rigid rejection of a workers’ raise when the factory is doing extremely well.
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Belfast Girls by Jaki McCarrick Front Page
Irish Repertory Theatre
By: - Jun 06th, 2022Belfast Girls, the Irish Rep’s current play by Jaki McCarrick is a sure-fire winner. Though all of the play’s action takes place on the transport ship Inchinnan in 1848 bound for Australia, the majority of the two act, 12-scene play with one intermission, takes place in a small, cramped, and windowless 5-bunk bed cabin in the ship’s steerage, and to a lesser degree on the ship’s deck where the girls can be seen contemplating their future.
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McConnia Chesser Narrates An Iliad at S&Co. Front Page
Was the War Fought in Troy or Pittsfield
By: - Jun 06th, 2022Following an all too familiar trend the playwrights, Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, have rewritten the iconic epic poem The Iliad, to the here and now. In the one act play McConnia Chesser compresses a ten year war into 110 minutes. It's a daunting task that exhausts the performer and her audience.
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Queen by Madhuri Shekar Front Page
At Long Wharf
By: - Jun 04th, 2022I wasn’t sure what to expect from this work by Madhuri Shekar and produced in partnership with the National Asian American Theater Company’s project. But I found it an engrossing, if not always totally motivated work.
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Beehive: the ‘60s Musical Front Page
Produced by Center REPertory
By: - Jun 04th, 2022In an implicit nod to the growing marijuana and hallucinogenic drug culture of the decade, David Crosby famously said that if you can remember the ‘60s, you weren’t there. Fortunately, for most of us who lived through it, that is a canard.
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The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp Front Page
Produced by Marin Theatre Company
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022A relationship staple in the catalog of dramatic themes is that of professor and student. Traditionally, the professor is a man who takes sexual or emotional advantage of a female student, but that formula has diversified in recent decades.
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Cats With Music by Andrew Lloyd Weber Front Page
Produced by Troika Entertainment, at Golden Gate Theatre
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022Who could predict that such a musical would set performance records for both the West End (21 years) and Broadway (a mere 18 years)? But innovation doesn’t put butts in seats. So, what propelled “Cats” to immortal fame?
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Funny Girl at the August Wilson Theater Front Page
Beanie Feldstein Disappoints
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022Fanny Brice – the real-like comedian who is the title character – had that quality. Unfortunately, while Beanie Feldstein is talented and tries hard – she doesn’t.
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Zoey’s PERFECT Wedding Front Page
TheaterWorks in Hartford
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022Zoey’s PERFECT Wedding now playing at TheaterWorks in Hartford looks at what happens when the “perfect” part of the wedding doesn’t happen. Playwright Matthew López has combined humor (some farce, some slapstick) with an insightful understanding of our need for human connection and love.
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MASS MoCA Business Opportunity Front Page
Call for Proposals
By: - Jun 01st, 2022MASS MoCA is inviting concepts for the old Sprague Electric Company guardhouse at the main entrance of the MASS MoCA campus located on Marshall Street in North Adams, MA.
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Williams College Museum of Art Expands Front Page
SO-IL Architects Selected
By: - Jun 01st, 2022SO-IL architects selected to design the first stand-alone building for the Williams College Museum of Art. New facility for teaching, collections, exhibitions and programs will transform the museum’s engagement with the campus, the Williamstown community and the Berkshires cultural region.
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Portland Museum of Art to Expand Front Page
Launches Design Competition
By: - Jun 01st, 2022The Portland Museum of Art, together with the leading independent architect selection firm Dovetail Design Strategists, announced today the launch of an international design competition for its campus unification and expansion.
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Baby Owl Word
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Utter Novelese Word
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The Quality of Life by Jane Anderson Front Page
Produced by Altarena Playhous
By: - May 31st, 2022Jane Anderson’s “The Quality of Life” depicts this schism within a family, and it feels even more pertinent today than at its premiere in 2007. How “today” are family rifts resulting from moral/religious differences as well as the loss of virtually all material possessions due to a California home being consumed by wildfire?
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Jane Hudson Paintings: Spirit/ Nature Front Page
David & Joyce Milne Public Library
By: - May 29th, 2022Jane Hudson is showing works from a series begun in the dead of winter. These ‘orb’ images speak to various states of mind, cosmic influence and radiant energy. As the winter has led beyond the darkness of space, the source of all our inspiration, and turns to another ratio of light to dark, and the emergence of Sunlight, growth and the fruitful hope of Spring on the Earth.
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Hat Matter: Thoughts of a Black Mad Hatter Front Page
By Michael Wayne Turner III
By: - May 28th, 2022On a line-by-line basis, the text of “Hat Matter:…” is dramatic and compelling. Audiences will find much to cheer and reflect upon. Some tracts may seem stream of consciousness and disjointed, but overall, the language is colorful and riveting, and the thoughts are profound. “
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Shakespeare & Company Stages An Iliad Front Page
MaConnia Chesser as The Poet.
By: - May 27th, 2022Adapted from an acclaimed translation by Robert Fagles, An Iliad refreshes Homer’s world classic and transforms the epic poem into a riveting account of the Trojan War, told in the present-time complete with nods to modern-day events.
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Faerie Festival Returns on June 18 Front Page
North Adams Event Honors Phil Sellers
By: - May 27th, 2022Artist activist, Phil Sellers and his wife Gail were part of the team behind the Faerie Festival in North Adams. He passed away in July 2020. After a hiatus The Faerie Festival is revised in his honor on June 18 from 10 AM to 10 PM.
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Go Celtics Word
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Six Artists in Above Us Only Sky Front Page
Atrium Gallery of Boston's Moakley Courthouse
By: - May 27th, 2022Six Boston-based artists in Above Us Only Sky speak about the infinite and euphoria in dark times. Romantic hopeful dream-like paintings elevate while embracing the light and lightness via stellar cascades; avian night-flight and starlike bouquets; a luminous energy field; the legacy of passion; meditation and a flow state; community and seeking new worlds.
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Fredric T. Schneider Gift to Peabody Essex Museum Front Page
Major Collection of Japanese cloisonne enamel
By: - May 26th, 2022“The gift to PEM of Fredric Schneider’s comprehensive collection establishes the museum as an international center for the study and appreciation of Japanese cloisonné enamel. His carefully-curated gift also includes collections of ephemera, photographs, rare books, interviews with Japanese specialists and other research materials, all of which will serve as tremendous resources for future scholars at PEM’s Phillips Library,” noted Karina H. Corrigan,
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The Drag at Provincetown Theatre Front Page
Banned on Broadway in 1927 Now a Smash
By: - May 26th, 2022Heading into Memorial Day weekend after our smashing opening of Mae West’s 1927 banned-from-Broadway The Drag, the tickets are selling quickly, and the raves are pouring in…
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installation by Azza El Siddique Front Page
At MIT List Visual Arts Center
By: - May 25th, 2022This summer, the MIT List Visual Arts Center debuts a site-specific installation by Azza El Siddique. The exhibition, which runs from June 30 to September 4, is the artist’s first solo museum presentation and marks the 25th exhibition in the List Projects series, which began in 2013.
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Which Way To The Stage Front Page
Robert W. Wilson Theater Space
By: - May 25th, 2022As the lights go up, standing in front of the stage door of Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, we find ourselves in the midst of an intense and rapid rat-a-tat-tat- conversation between Judy, a rather plain-looking, dressed down Judy (Sas Goldberg) and the obviously gay (he makes no bones about it), Jeff (Max Jenkins), two theater loving actors, and longtime best friends since college.
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