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.

Today in the roundup: Local music bits, the challenge for recent college grads in the arts and Kathy Griffin on why she chose comedy.

Continuing our series on North Texas artists worth watching in the New Year. Adam Adolfo brought Latino theater back to Fort Worth’s Artes de la Rosa. And this year that Latino theater is going to include a goblin, surrealism and some Argentine flair.

The first in a series: At year’s end, Art&Seek looks forward to people in the North Texas arts community — some of the ones who’ll be doing work in 2012 that you’ll want to keep an eye out for. We start with the Dallas Museum of Art’s new director.

Today in the roundup: A father-daughter team in Les Mis, the Polyphonic Spree’s resident foodie and a discovery at the Kimbell.