The English rock star played two benefit shows at the Mahaffey Theater this week. Sting offered his blessing right after his second tune: Yes, we could rock out in front of the Florida Orchestra. "I know we're in a classical space, and you're not supposed to clap in the middle of a song," the singer told the crowd at the Mahaffey Theater on Friday night."You can tonight, OK?"...
 

In watching Message in a Bottle, a new show featuring hip-hop-styled dance choreography set to the music of Sting and his former band the Police, one can’t help but feel how timely its themes are in the context of today’s news. The nearly two-hour performance conjures images ripped from the news headlines: the horrors of war, the displacement of families, and the plight of migrants and how authorities treat them once they do arrive in their new land...