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 Resurrection of Judy Rhines at Cape Ann Museum Front Page
An Installation by Gabrielle Barzaghi & Peter Littlefield
By: - Jul 31st, 2025A radio play, The Beginning of the End (of Judy Rhines) by Peter Littlefield, accompanies the installation. The play is a mystery set in the 1940s. Judy Rhines is a secretary, until one day, losing her job and just about everything else, she learns the ways of a witch
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Annie the Musical Front Page
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Jul 30th, 2025Annie has a strong connection to Connecticut. It started life at Goodspeed in 1976, before heading to Broadway, where it not only won multiple Tony Awards but played until 1983. While the inspiration was the comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, the musical’s plot by Thomas Meehan, is completely original. Charles Strouse wrote the music with lyrics by Martin Charnin.
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Week Seven at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane and Shamel Pitts
By: - Jul 29th, 2025Touch of RED by Shamel Pitts | TRIBE will get a Jacob’s Pillow premiere that has been five years in the making. This performance will be a homecoming. In the Ted Shawn Theatre, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will make their first appearance at the Pillow since 2012, running August 6 through 10. Now in their 43rd year, the company is performing two seminal works from their historic repertoire: D-Man in the Waters set to Felix Mendelssohn’s soaring Octet for Strings (1989) and Story/ (2013) performed to Death and the Maiden by Franz Schubert played live.
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Stephen Petronio at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
The Last Dances
By: - Jul 28th, 2025When Stephen Petronio announced that he was disbanding his company of 40 years Pamela Tatge of Jacob's Pillow jumped in. Together they planned a program that best represented his work. He spoke directly and candidly to the audience which responded with love and support.
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Diswasher Dialogues, Day of the Dead Front Page
El Dia de Los Muertos
By: - Jul 27th, 2025This feast of celebrating the dead––and death, of course too––was a good jab into my coddled heart, and a solid fuck-you-and-the-nag-you’re-riding aimed at the grim reaper. After the clients finally left way past closing time, the entire staff, all rather worse for fatigue and drink, sat down for our own special Halloween dinner.
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Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap Front Page
World’s Longest Running Play at the Colonial
By: - Jul 27th, 2025Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opened to mixed reviews in 1952, and other than a hiatus for Covid, is still running. It’s a London tourist trap and as much a site to see as Big Ben and the museums. Berkshire Theatre Group's sizzling production at the Colonial Theatre is a home run. This show is the most fun of the Berkshire season.
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Singin’ in the Rain Front Page
Playhouse on Park in West Hartford
By: - Jul 26th, 2025The Playhouse on Park version has a new premise. We don’t just dive into the plot. The production begins with an audience assembling for a screening of the classic movie. However, just moments in, a malfunction stops the screening.
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Sekou McMiller & Friends Front Page
Coming to Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 23rd, 2025Jacob’s Pillow will welcome the Afro Latin dance company Sekou McMiller & Friends, who brought audiences to their feet last year on the outdoor stage, for their Ted Shawn Theatre debut from July 30 through August 3.
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All Shook UP Front Page
At Goodspeed
By: - Jul 23rd, 2025The list of things All Shook Up does well is long, from the show itself to the outstanding Goodspeed production and the talented cast.
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Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist Front Page
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Jul 22nd, 2025Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.
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The Quiet Feast Front Page
Finding the Dao in Solitude
By: - Jul 22nd, 2025Laozi reminds us in the Tao Te Ching of the utility of emptiness: “We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” A life cluttered with noise and perpetual engagement leaves no room for the spirit to reside
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Sarasota Ballet Company at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
Works by Sir Frederick Ashton
By: - Jul 21st, 2025For its first appearance at Jacob's Pillow in a decade the Sarasota Ballet Company presented two works by Sir Frederick Ashton and a world premiere by Jessica Lang, Sir Frederick Ashton (born 1904, Guayaquil, Ecuador—died 1988, Sussex, England) was the principal choreographer and director of England’s Royal Ballet, the repertoire of which includes about 30 of his ballets.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues: Rags Front Page
But Not Riches
By: - Jul 21st, 2025For an appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of a play by Greg the set of painted rags was conceived by Rafael. It was cheap and easy to transport. Looking out over a mountain of rags, however, the audience consisted of a single individual. They attributed lack of success to their unflinching artistic integrity.
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Stephen Petronio Company at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Signs Off After 40 Years
By: - Jul 15th, 2025As a highlight of the 93rd Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the world-renowned Stephen Petronio Company—one of the biggest names in the postmodern dance scene—will conclude their 40-year run with a highly anticipated program in the Ted Shawn Theatre, July 23-27. These capstone performances will feature a collection of Petronio’s favorite works, including MiddleSexGorge (1990) and American Landscapes (2019).
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The Dao of Push Hands Front Page
Cultivating Suppleness and Wisdom
By: - Jul 15th, 2025At its core, push hands is a two-person training drill designed to develop sensitivity, balance, and the ability to neutralize and issue force. Partners maintain continuous contact, typically at the wrists or forearms, and engage in a gentle yet focused exchange.
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Trinity Irish Dance Company Front Page
Featured for the First Time at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 14th, 2025Although American based, the world touring company Trinity Irish Dance Company is rooted in traditions of step dancing and music. The unique vision has been to expand the program from folk forms to creating works with progressive vision that puts it on level ground with leading contemporary companies. The dances are exquisite, unique, intricate, and challenging.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues: Les Droits de l'homme Front Page
Patriotism and Passports
By: - Jul 13th, 2025I always felt the simple visitor’s stamp on my passport gave me just enough right to live in Paris until the next visitor’s stamp. I never contemplated the idea of citizenship or even having a carte de travail.
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fuzzy at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
A World Premiere Musical
By: - Jul 13th, 2025The musical fuzzy is a puppet show for adults. This inventive production breaks all the rules. The one act play has been written, it seems, by the main character. The charm of this production is that the audience comes to believe that.
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Fred Wilson Reflections Front Page
Rose Art Museum
By: - Jul 09th, 2025Fred Wilson has gained widespread recognition for his groundbreaking artistic practice, which challenges dominant assumptions about history and culture. Working across a range of media—including sculpture, installation, painting, and glass—Wilson is best known for his conceptual interventions that expose the ways museums, archives, and institutions shape our understanding of the past. By reframing cultural narratives and recontextualizing objects, often drawn from historical collections or everyday life.
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Gabielle Munter at the Guggenheim Front Page
First NY Museum Exhibition in Thirty Years
By: - Jul 08th, 2025Gabrielle Münter was a critical figure in the advancement of modernism in early twentieth-century Europe. Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World will focus on her heightened Expressionist production from around 1908 to 1920, while also highlighting her later developments.
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LA Company Bodytraffic at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Fourth Visit Since 2013
By: - Jul 07th, 2025Bodytraffic was founded in 2007 in Los Angeles by Tina Finkelman Berkett and Lilian Barbeito. They made their Jacob’s Pillow debut on the outdoor stage in 2013. They returned two more times including appearing in the Doris Duke Theater. For this season they were invited to perform in the Ted Shawn Theatre.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues: Philosophy Front Page
Derrida, Wittgenstein and Love in Paris
By: - Jul 07th, 2025Stephen loved philosophy. I remember he and I arguing over Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations during the rehearsals for One Day in May. Well, it wasn’t so much an argument as me shouting ‘Wittgenstein, what do you know about Wittgenstein?’
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Vincent Valdez at MASS MoCA Front Page
Contemporary Social Realism
By: - Jul 06th, 2025A second generation Mexican American, Victor Valdez, was a prodigy who with a mentor was painting public murals at the age of 10. Now at mid career the remarkable artists is the subject of a riveting retrospective at MASS MoCA. It features a 30' panorama of hooded Ku Klux Klan members.
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About Time by Maltby and Shire Front Page
At Goodspeed
By: - Jul 05th, 2025About Time, the new Maltby and Shire revue that recently completed a run at About Time, the new Maltby and Shire seems inevitable, given that the pair previously composed the revues Starting Here, Starting Now (1976) and Closer Than Ever (1989).While Starting Here’s songs dealt with starting out in a big city and finding romance, Closer Than Ever’s songs dealt with subjects related to mid-life.
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Camelot at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
Utopian Message for Hard Times
By: - Jul 04th, 2025Camelot, a lesser work by Lerner & Loewe with its utopian vision of a medieval kingdom, came to signify the youthful and energetic presidency of John F. Kennedy. It has been revised by Alan Paul and Barrington Stage Company as contrast to the current evil empire and faint hope that a better America has been and will be again.
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