A portfolio of the winning entries to the 2012 Eustace Tilley Contest, an invitation to redefine The New Yorker’s presiding dandy.

A central motif in contemporary hip-hop is rapping about drug dealing by artists who may not actually sell narcotics. Among others, Jay-Z, Clipse, and Young Jeezy have rhymed about a past or present involvement in the trade on the street. It’s typically impossible to determine whether . . .

John Osborne’s rowdy, shocking anger—first broadcast in his play “Look Back in Anger,” which is now in revival at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels—was his trademark, his gift, and his epitaph. “When the bell rings, I not only . . . (Subscription required.)

PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES Rinde Eckert wrote and stars in this musical, about a composer with mental illness who tries to write an opera based on &#8220 . . .

goatTitle-->“SELECTED SHORTS” Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, and Stephen Lang join the New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast for an evening based on her new book, “What I Hate from A to Z.” (Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th St. 212-864-5400. Feb. 8 at 7.) &#8220 . . .

THE THEATRE RESURRECTION March 1 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s 1971 rock musical, “Jesus Christ Superstar,” is back, in a production that originated at last year’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Des McAnuff directs, at the Neil Simon. (212-239-6200.) CLASSICAL MUSIC BACK IN BLACK March . . .

PageBreak -->ROCK AND POP Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements. “AMERICAN SONGBOOK” Feb. 8: The baritone raconteur Bill Callahan, the artist formerly known as Smog, brings his Americana-inflected songs to . . .

PageBreak -->OPENING BULLHEAD Michaël R. Roskam directed this drama, about a farmer (Matthias Schoenaerts) who makes a deal with an underworld meat trader. In Dutch and French. Opening Feb. 17. (In limited release.) CHICO & RITA Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal directed . . .

goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET In the next two weeks, the company will offer a broad swath of repertory by Balanchine, Robbins, and Ratmansky, as well as several performances of two large-scale narrative ballets by Peter Martins and Lynne Taylor-Corbett. On the Balanchine front, N.Y.C.B. presents the . . .

PageBreak -->OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA Bartlett Sher’s rambunctious staging of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” returns to the repertory, with Rodion Pogossov in the title role and Diana Damrau as Rosina, as well as Colin Lee, John Del Carlo, and Ferruccio Furlanetto; Maurizio Benini . . .

PageBreak -->MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini.” Through March 18. | “Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965).” Through April 15. | “Photographic Treasures from the Collection . . .

goatTitle-->WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB DOG SHOW Samoyeds, Cavalier King Charles spaniels, golden retrievers, Rhodesian ridgebacks, French bulldogs, dachshunds, and many other breeds come to town for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. (Madison Square Garden, Seventh Ave. at 33rd St. 800-745-3000. For more information, visit westminsterkennelclub.org. Feb. 13-14.)

When children’s television comes up in conversation, everyone knows the drill. Begin with the sinister idiom “screen time.” To show you’re no prig, make a warm remark about “Sesame Street.” Name your favorite Muppet. (I suggest Beaker or the Swedish chef.) Then . . . (Subscription required.)

HBO has two new documentaries, each dramatizing a miscarriage of justice. In January, the cable channel began airing Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,” which was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary. It’s the capper to their nearly two-decade . . . (Subscription required.)

Of all the Second World War movies about American fighting platoons, “The Story of G.I. Joe,” made by William Wellman in 1945, is probably the grimmest and most poetic and the least tied to genre clichés. (It screens at Film Forum on Feb. 22, in a . . . (Subscription required.)

8220;Chronicle” is a mildly experimental commercial film, and, for the most part, it’s loose-limbed fun. The picture takes off from “The Blair Witch Project” and other movies that use point-of-view techniques: we see footage shot by a character’s digital . . . (Subscription required.)

The fifth installment in Burdett’s Bangkok-based crime series begins with a triple homicide whose victims have had every salable body part removed. Among the suspects are identical-twin Chinese heiresses—gorgeous, of course—whose hobbies include playing Russian roulette and collecting embalmed male genitalia. Burdett . . . (Subscription required.)

In 1187, the Muslim military ruler Saladin captured Jerusalem from the descendants of crusaders. The news electrified Europe, and England and France imposed a “Saladin tithe,” to fund the Third Crusade. Eddé’s book portrays Saladin amid a medieval world in motion: He dispatches sons and . . . (Subscription required.)

In oblique, elliptical fashion, these poems follow the dispersal of African peoples by half a millennium of catastrophes, from slavery to Hurricane Katrina. Mackey’s narrative concerns the citizens of a dim necropolis called Quag. The wanderings of his characters, who have names like St. Sufferhead, Anuncia, and Huff . . . (Subscription required.)

Born in Illinois in 1865, James Henry Breasted turned an early interest in the ministry and a talent for languages into a remarkable career as America’s first formally trained Egyptologist. He specialized in the recording of inscriptions and wanted nothing less than “the recopying and republication of . . . (Subscription required.)