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The Dallas Art Fair opens Friday at Fashion Industry Gallery downtown. More than 80 dealers will show their art there through the weekend. And in its fifth year, the Art Fair is beginning to attract international attention.

Today in the roundup: ‘The Rite of Spring’ returns, local music bits and composer Dominick Argento on the ghost who helped him write.

Five Dallas arts leaders joined Mayor Rawlings onstage to talk about getting more artists here and keeping the ones we already have. The conversation, Rawlings admitted, was just a start.

On Thursday, National Geographic Live! brings its Birds of Paradise program to the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou spoke with ornithologist Ed Scholes for a preview.

Tickets for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is one of our Big Bad Big Deals!

Today in the roundup: A return engagement for The Dallas Opera, how a film accurately captures Renoir at work and Stage West’s busy schedule.

You may know Steven Walters as a member of the Dallas Theater Center’s resident acting company. Or as a founder of Second Thought Theatre. But this weekend, you can get to know Steven Walters, the screenwriter. A film he wrote plays at the Dallas International Film Festival. Here’s the story of one of the hardest working men in local show business.

Today in the roundup: The DMA adds a French painting, Dallas Children’s Theater announces its new season and The Playroom returns.

Guest blogger Danielle Georgiou suggests you check out Chuck and George. She also encourages you to explore an existential crisis– with puppets!