Plus a photo walk-through of what the still-under-construction Museum of Nature & Science looks like now — about a year before it opens.

Find out how you can enter to win a Family 4-pack of tickets to see this heartwarming childrens’ tale on stage.

Bring the kids to the the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum this Saturday for a special event marking the accomplishments of the pioneers of Black Aviation.

… which doesn’t really lead to a punchline because Thursday’s roundtable, sponsored by Art & Seek and the Dallas Museum of Art, actually led to a wide-ranging, intelligent conversation about the local contemporary arts scene.

Join KERA’s Jeff Whittington tonight at the DMA for State of the Arts, with Jeremy Strick, Jeffrey Grove, Peter Doroshenko and Michael Corris.

Today in the roundup: A happy Sarah Ruhl, the Cliburn’s ongoing influence and building Calatrava’s bridge.

Today in the roundup: Gaultier speaks, Booker T’s big field trip and local theater bits.

The past two years, a dozen North Texas arts groups — including some of the biggest — have scrambled to hire a new managing director or CEO. Why have they become so hard to find? And why do the arts need them, anyway?

It’s all meant to hype Smash,, which looks to be the ‘adult Glee. Still, 20 schools across the country will get a pilot musical theater program out of it, including one in Dallas. Your school can apply for the expansion program for the fall.

Today in the roundup: How school cuts affect arts groups, Pegasus Theatre’s hit and how Hugo is like an opera.