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:
-
The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno Front Page
At Chicago's Theater Wit
By: - Jan 24th, 2019Playwright Will Eno seems to want us to sympathize with these four people but none of them are fully drawn characters.
-
Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon Front Page
By TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Jan 22nd, 2019Dramas such as Frost/Nixon – modern history as theater – present challenges. Those who lived through whatever subject at hand may feel they remember the facts well enough that a rehash will offer little interest. Those who sense there will be a political tilt to the play that doesn’t conform with their own may resist attending. In the case of Frost/Nixon relatively little time is dedicated to the interviews that were on television as part of the public history.
-
What We’re Up Against by Therese Rebeck Front Page
Revival of 2011 Play in Chicago
By: - Jan 21st, 2019Playwright Theresa Rebeck is a master of dialogue and never hesitates to portray the bad manners of her contemporaries. Her 2011 play, What We’re Up Against, just opened as the inaugural production of Compass Theatre, a new Chicago Equity company.
-
Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega Front Page
At City Lit Theater
By: - Jan 21st, 2019Lope de Vega is considered Spain’s second most important author, following only Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. De Vega is said to have written 500 plays, 3000 sonnets, seven novels and novellas.
-
Goodbye, Dolly! Front Page
Remembering Carol Channing at 97
By: - Jan 15th, 2019Broadway and cabaret star Carol Elaine Channing passed away today at the remarkable age of 97. She originated the iconic lead on the 1964 production of Jerry Herman's Hello,Dolly! It earned her a Tony award for which she was nominated three other times. She was still glamorous and forever young, but pushing 60, when I saw her in the late 1970s at Boston's jazz and cabaret club Lulu White's. That spectacular night evokes many fond memories.
-
Sophisticaled Giant Dexter Gordon Front Page
Insightful Bio of Tenor Titan by Maxine Gordon
By: - Jan 15th, 2019Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) with Billy Ecskstine bandmates, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey, was an innovator of bop during the 1940s. There is evidence of his early playing on Dial and Savoy, three minute, 78 rpm recordings. Through addiction and incarceration his career languished in the 1950s. From 1962 to 1976 he lived primarily in Copenhagen. With his wife and manager Maxine, the author of a detailed biography, he staged a comback in 1976. That was capped by an Oscar nominated performance in the Bertrand Tavernier film Round Midnight (Warner Bros, 1986).
-
Maui-Wowie with Charles Laquidara Front Page
Former WBCN DJ Retired to Paradise
By: - Jan 12th, 2019From 1968 to 2000, first on WBCN and then for the last five years with WZLX, Charles Laquidara was one of the most beloved, outspoken, and controversial DJ’s during a golden era of counter culture in Boston. At his prime he was one of America's most influential, top rated DJ's. We dicussed his unique career during two lengthy calls to his home in Maui.
-
Charlie Johnson Reads All of Proust Front Page
À la recherche du temps perdu
By: - Jan 10th, 2019An older man decides he will read Marcel Proust’s iconic novel. As he reads all six volumes over the course of a year, he responds to Proust and reflects on his own life. And his audience may gain insights into their own too.That’s the sum total of an engaging solo production titled Charlie Johnson Reads All of Proust, now on stage at Chicago's Den Theatre
-
Talking About Brecht in Chicago Front Page
Meeting of Modern Language Association
By: - Jan 06th, 2019I discovered Brecht many decades ago, when I was just becoming a theater lover. I’m not sure I had ever heard of Bertolt Brecht when I saw what has become one of my favorite plays—The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui—at the renowned Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. It was 1968 (I had to look that up), one of the first years of the Guthrie’s existence.
-
Amy Heckerling's Clueless, The Musical Front Page
From Screen to Stage Off Broadway
By: - Jan 04th, 2019For those that loved Clueless, the 1995 cult movie starring Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd, watched the TV series (1996-99) based on the film, and perhaps read all twenty-one of the Cher young adult books, well, Clueless is back on stage, Off Broadway.
-
Lucas Pino’s That’s a Computer Front Page
CD Release by Saxophonist & Composer
By: - Jan 04th, 2019Saxophonist & composer Lucas Pino has released a title that even in the creative jazz world needs some explanation. “That’s a Computer,” released in the fall of 2018 with his 10-piece jazz band No Net Nonet, takes its title from a comment made by one of Pino’s’ professors at the Julliard School.
-
Best Theatre for 2018 Front Page
Covering Broadway and Connecticut
By: - Jan 01st, 2019This is list is based on shows I saw in 2018 – they may have opened officially in December 2017 and some current shows I’m not seeing until January. (Specifically Ferryman and To Kill a Mockingbird).
-
Schnapps with Dexter Gordon Front Page
Hard Bop in Copenhagen
By: - Dec 31st, 2018During a 1972 week in Copenhagen I had an aquavit infused, acid trip lunch with bop, tenor sax player, Dexter Gordon. He had lived in Europe for a decade and was relatively unknown in the States. Four years later he returned with a well staged comeback. He signed with Columbia, was featured in major festivals, and toured relentlessly. He performed an Oscar nominated role as the lead of the 1986 film “Round Midnight” by French director, Bertrand Travernier. The publication of “Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Times of Dexter Gordon” (University of California Press, 2018) by his wife Maxine Gordon jogged memories of close encounters with a consummate hipster.
-
Bruce Coughran's A Time for Hawking Front Page
At Indra’s Net Theater
By: - Dec 28th, 2018A Time for Hawking is a brisk-moving, well-explicated educational primer in the form of an involving comedy/drama. The playwright, Bruce Coughran, who also directs, has selected three contrasting characters whose real lives would intersect in significant ways. He has deftly integrated a panoply of scientific and philosophical milestones into their conversation.
-
La Ruta an Important Play by Isaac Gomez Front Page
World Premiere in Chicago at Steppenwolf
By: - Dec 24th, 2018Steppenwolf Theatre is staging La Ruta, an important world premiere play by Isaac Gomez, based on his own research on the women of Cuidad Juarez, played by an eight-member all-female Latinx cast. Sandra Marquez’ careful direction recreates the work and home lives of these women—and the dangers they live with—in a powerful, emotional way.
-
Gardner Museum Loans Its Greatest Treasure Front Page
Momentous Decisions for Titian’s Masterpiece Rape of Europa
By: - Dec 23rd, 2018In flagrant violation of the will of Isabella Stewart Gardner the museum's greatest masterpiece Titian's "The Rape of Europa" has been cleaned for the first time and is about to be loaned for up to two years. She stipulated that “[I]f [the trustees] shall at any time change the general disposition or arrangement of any articles which shall have been placed in the first, second and third stories of said Museum at my death,” then the entire collection, the museum building and property would be given to Harvard University to be sold.
-
All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Front Page
Stranger Than Fiction at Loreto Theatre on Bleecker Street
By: - Dec 23rd, 2018What is remarkable about this production directed by Peter Rothstein with music direction by Erick Lichte is both the simplicity and the complexity of the production. There is no set; the stage is a black box. No orchestra or piano accompanies the actors as they sing; it is a capella. The harmonies arranged by Lichte and Timothy C Takach are wonderful.
-
Foss & Ferrandini: A Fruitful Friendship Front Page
Tandem at Boston's Gallery Naga
By: - Dec 21st, 2018Jeremy Foss taught painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design during the 1970s and 80s. It was during the 70s, while Robert Ferrandini was a student at Mass Art, that he and Foss formed a friendship that has lasted to this day. Their exibition Foss & Ferrandini: A Fruitful Friendship will be on view January 4 to 26 at Boston's Gallery NAGA.
-
The Lifespan of a Fact at Studio 54 Front Page
By Playwrights Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell
By: - Dec 21st, 2018Playwrights Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell have balanced the piece carefully. This is based on the essay and book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal. They are the John and Jim of the story. But I suspect details have been changed, in fact it is billed as “a new play based on a true-ish story.” It is a tight 85 minutes enhanced by fine performances.
-
The Year to Come by Lindsey Ferrentino Front Page
At the La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Dec 20th, 2018Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino apparently felt the urge to inform audiences just how disparate are families and their need to share their ubiquitous stories with the world at large. Television has been the delivery system that best gets the comedy job done. Sitcoms have mastered the medium for more than 70 years. . But I’m not quite sure that Ferrentino’s comedy play “The Year to Come” is the vehicle to bridge so many gaps facing our ever changing society.
-
Riffing on Ibsen Front Page
A Doll’s House, Part 2 in San Diego
By: - Dec 20th, 2018“A Doll’s House, Part 2”, premiered in 2017- garnering 8 Tony Nominations – is a perfect example of how an iconic classic play coupled with talent, and a sense of curiosity from an original thinking playwright can become a fresh, smart, new work, that’s been dazzling audiences wherever it performs. (Lucas Hnath’s 2016 play “The Christians”, received a Tony nomination for his insightful story of a Pastor who questions his belief in God and The Bible).
-
Into the Light by Jérôme Brunet Front Page
Album of Rock and Blues Images
By: - Dec 19th, 2018The French born Jérôme Brunet started shooting concerts in 1994. This book of just under 200 images in black and white resulted in part from a kickstarer campaign that raised $30,000. There is a mix of celebrity rockers and less well known blues artists. Images include U2, The Who, Cream, Stones, Pink Floyd, Yes, Slash, Tom Petty, Carlos Santana, Van Morrison, Steve Miller, and Bruce Springsteen. Some of the killer shots were of B.B. King one of which is on the cover of a compelling book.
-
Actor/Director Charles Weldon at 78 Front Page
Was Artistic Director of The Negro Ensemble Company
By: - Dec 18th, 2018During the recent NY conference of American Theatre Critics Association Charles Weldon was a lively participant on a panel focused on diversity. He was Artistic Director of The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) since 2005. He joined the Negro Ensemble Company in 1970 and acted in many of its classic plays including "A Soldier's Play," "The Great McDaddy," "The Offering," "The Brownsville Raid" and the Company's Broadway production of "The River Niger."
-
Delacroix at the Met Front Page
Major Works Missing from Exhibition
By: - Dec 16th, 2018Organized with the Louvre Museum in Paris, where it appeared with more works, the Met show presents some 150 paintings, prints and drawings in a dozen large galleries. Major works did not travel to New York resulting in an inadequate view of a major 19th century artist. It remains on view through January 6.
-
Balmoral Word
<< Previous Next >>