Today in the roundup: A song from Giant, a high schooler’s long road to the DMA and the end of an era.

Here’s your chance to see the dance documentary before it opens.

TITAS brings The American Ballet Theatre to town this weekend, and guest blogger Danielle Georgiou gets a preview – and some thoughts on coming home to Texas – from soloist Jared Matthews.

Today in the roundup: American Ballet Theatre comes to town, Jubilee’s music man is back on the scene and DCT’s new look.

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.

Enda Walsh and Michael Keegan-Dolan: You probably haven’t heard of either one. They’re Irish and they’re daringly unconventional artists. Kudos to the Meadows School of the Arts for bringing them to Dallas.

Today in the roundup: Texas Ballet Theater’s Nutcracker, Bill’s Records endures and drawing a face to match those NPR voices.

It involves some 200 area artists from groups such as the Turtle Creek Chorale, the Texas Ballet Theatre and the Dallas Theater Center. They had only four months to bring A Gathering together, but deciding what this gala benefit should say about 30 years of AIDS history was the hurdle.

If you’ve always thought that the one thing Christmas is missing is more interpretive dance, then today is your lucky day.

Today in the roundup: Remembering past Nutcrackers, looking at art during a Cowboys game and bringing opera to the kids.