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'Point Omega' Explores Complexity and Consciousness

By Beryl C.D. Lipton  • 

One could easily consume Don DeLillo’s “Point Omega” in a single sitting.


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"[title of show]" Goes Meta, To Mediocre Results

By Beryl C.D. Lipton  • 

The adage "write what you know" is one of the most well-worn pieces of advice in the old literary playbook. For Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell, the creators of the musical "[title of show]”—which runs through February 13 at the Boston Center for the Arts— this saying became the playbook.


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"Bat Boy" Sighting a Pleasantly Strange Event

By Beryl C.D. Lipton  • 

Part moral inquiry, part love story, and primarily ridiculous, “Bat Boy: The Musical” does not fail to entertain with its tragically comic and campy story of acceptance.



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Getting a Leg Up

By Beryl C.D. Lipton  • 

Supportive venues help burlesque troops give modern audiences what they want


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Stone’s ‘Attempts’ An Awesome Success

By Beryl C.D. Lipton  • 

HRDC's latest Loeb Ex production "Attempts on Her Life" explores the painful awareness of internal and external contradictions as centered on the fluid character of “Anne.”


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Have An 'Art

By Beryl C.D. Lipton  • 

As the film cut to black at the end of the screening of Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi’s “Z32” on Sunday,


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Assing Around at the A.R.T.

By Beryl C.D. Lipton  • 

With a name like “The Donkey Show,” it should be unsurprising that an appropriate adjective to describe Diane Paulus’ inaugural


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"Greene" Lacks Context

By Beryl C.D. Lipton  • 

Brothers Charles and Henry Greene have a most appropriate surname. Their work—currently the focus of “A New and Native Beauty:


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Serbis

By Beryl C.D. Lipton  • 

Soft-core porn has rarely been as wonderfully unsexy as in Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s thoroughly engaging drama “Serbis.” Rather than

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