This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about the first-and-only four-way-hit songwriter.

Tyrees Allen has been on dozens of TV shows and a coupla Broadway shows. But he came back to North Texas to act for the African-American Rep – to support the DeSoto company and as something of a personal challenge.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll follow a songwriter down country music’s “lost highway.”

Get out there and celebrate spring with one of these outdoor festivals.

Ostensibly, it’s a nonfiction version of the assassination, unlike, say, Oliver Stone’s film.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll hear how the civil rights struggle took an operatic turn.

Fela! is a thunderous wall of sound-and-dance. In staging the life, music and defiant politics of the Nigerian firebrand, choreographer-director Bill T. Jones has gone for hip-shaking, sexual energy – not so much for coherent story. But the world tour at the Winspear is top-notch.

“A molecule walks into a bar … “We’re talking nano
-tiny animation here. Animation on the atomic level. So yeah, it’s not exactly Wallace and Gromit, but still, atomic slapstick is just staring, you know?

Texas energy trader Enron was the largest corporate failure in history in 2001. Since then, Bernie Madoff and our ugly recession have made us forget it. Lucy Prebble’s drama, Enron, is a pointed reminder. And it finally gets its North Texas premiere at Theatre Three.

It’s Monday, and we’re looking at dance fever, dinosaur bones, and a singing arts leader…..