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Dance Review: Dorrance Dance’s “Blues Project” — Keeping Tap Alive

March 15, 2015
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Without being at all didactic, Michelle Dorrance reveres tap history by adapting traditional ideas, then resolving them unexpectedly.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 15, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

Theater Review: “The Colored Museum” — Raucous, Riveting, But Out of Sync

March 15, 2015
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George C. Wolfe’s 1986 collection of vignettes that spoof and celebrate black stereotypes occasionally plays like reruns from the ’90s TV show In Living Color.

Theater Commentary/Review: On American Stages — No Politics, Please

March 14, 2015
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In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.

Video Game Review: “The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D” — Worthy of a Cult

March 14, 2015
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is the video game version of Groundhog’s Day — you’re Bill Murray, and it’s brilliant.

Book Review: Scott McCloud’s “The Sculptor” — A Life in His Hands

March 14, 2015
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A graphic novel about the death of art and the art of death

Rock Concert Review: The Church — Still Dreaming

March 13, 2015
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For the diehards who crowded the Sinclair, the Church aren’t about hit singles and nostalgia; they’re about double-guitar dreamscapes and psychedelic visions.

Book Review: “Madison’s Music” — Listen to the Melody of the First Amendment?

March 12, 2015
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If James Madison was so verbose that his draft version of the First Amendment could be cut in half, then he can hardly be called an artist with words.

Book Review: The Life of Lou Reed — Those With No Moral Compass Beware

March 12, 2015
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We learn, over and over, that the author of the song “Vicious” dispensed his legendary acts of cruelty with sadistic aplomb.

Fuse Film Review: “Natural Sciences” — A Journey into the Argentinian Lower Depths

March 11, 2015
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Written and directed by feature film newcomer Matais Lucchesi, Natural Sciences is a cautionary tale: be careful what you wish for.

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