Alexandre Patty: The Upside Down Man by Trav S.D.

January 31 is celebrated in some quarters as National Backwards Day (or as some perversely put it, Backward Day). It seems to me that every day for the past ten years answers both of those d…

Rapper Nur-D, pepper-sprayed and detained in Minneapolis, hires Rodney King’s lawyer to represent him by Tribune News Service

MINNEAPOLIS — After photos and video of federal agents violently detaining him in Minneapolis went viral, Twin Cities rapper Matt “Nur-D” Allen has retained the law firm that represent…

Theater Review: “Noli Timere” — A Fearless Weaving of Light and Motion by Robert Israel

If there is power in being invited, for the space of 80 minutes, to suspend our fear of where things are going, this show is a place where we can feel safe to do just that.

Detroit Opera orchestra to set George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic hits to classical music by The Associated Press

By COREY WILLIAMS DETROIT (AP) — “I was strung out on Bach, and Beethoven was my thing. I dug jazz, I dug rock, anything with a swing” — or so goes Funkadelic’s 1978 groove “Chol…

Ockham’s Razor: Collaborator review – roll up for a real circus power couple by Lyndsey Winship

The Place, LondonCharlotte Mooney and Alex Harvey deliver a mesmerising and intimate ode to their performing lives together Charlotte Mooney and Alex Harvey fell in love 24 years ago when th…

Pharrell calls for empathy from US leaders after being honored at Black Music Collective event by The Associated Press

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. LOS ANGELES (AP) — At a pre-Grammy event celebrating Black music’s cultural power, Pharrell Williams used the Recording Academy stage to deliver a prayer — not …

London’s Poems on the Underground celebrates 40 years of bringing verses to commuters by The Associated Press

By JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Can a few lines of verse, make commuting less worse? That, in essence, is the question asked four decades ago by Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London…

What to Stream: ‘Splitsville,’ J. Cole, ‘Puppy Bowl,’ Keke Palmer, Nick Jonas and Nioh 3 by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press The goofy and wry relationship comedy “Splitsville” landing on Hulu and fresh albums by J. Cole and Nick Jonas are some of the new television, films, music and ga…

Embrace the artistry this week in CT with a bluesman, freestyle favorites and fantastic fantasies by Christopher Arnott

The Courant's arts picks for Feb. 1-7 include"Frozen" at ACT of CT, a symphony-backed "Fantasia," Rock guitar hero Steve Conte and country crooner Brett Young.

How Lesley Manville Is Leaving ‘Oedipus’ Audiences Spellbound by Ben Brantley

Personal history emerges by painful degrees in “Oedipus,” whose language and story, the actress Lesley Manville says, “wreck me every time.”

"Wicked" director Jon M. Chu talks Elphaba-branded Swiffers and we preview "Melania" by NPR

"Wicked" director Jon M. Chu talks Elphaba-branded Swiffers and panelists Negin Farsad, Peter Grosz, and Annie Rauwerda preview "Melania: A Documentary"Learn more about sponsor message choic…

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The Great Gatsby North American Tour Launches January 31 by Andrew Gans, Margaret Hall

The new musical, based on the famed F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, also continues at the Broadway Theatre.