The National Performance Network has helped jump-start the careers of artists like the Blue Man Group, Liz Lerman and Blondell Cummings. Now the group’s coming to Dallas for it’s annual conference…and bringing opportunities for North Texas artists and performers. Guest blogger Vicki Meek fills you in:

Friends will gather Saturday to remember MacWithey, who died last week at the age of 58.

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Astair, Swayze, Bacon, Travolta – if they danced on screen, you’ll probably find them in this montage of the best moves from the movies.

Today in the roundup: A local bestselling author talks tricks of the trade, honoring Horton Foote and broadening your theater background.

The only thing left to decide after watching this dog dance merengue is if this is this is the smartest, most talented pet of all time.

For its season-opener — a condensed version of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, pts 1 & 2 — the Dallas Theater Center has cast actors from all three of the DTC’s historic acting companies. The play’s about history, too, you see. And generations. Inheritances. Get it?

Today in the roundup: Reading the Mayans, remembering 9/11 and scenes from the coast.

DISD has been climbing out of the arts-education hole it dug back in the ’80s and ’90s. But it’s been able to do it with outside, non-profit money — from groups like the Wallace Foundation. We look at how Little Kids Rock is bringing the power of rock — for free — to young headbangers and songwriters in DISD.

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