We’ve come to accept so much of what Harold Pinter pioneered in The Birthday Party. From Monty Python to David Mamet, we’ve found his menace, his puzzles, his great, off-the-wall humor. It takes the Undermain and director Patrick Kelly to find the old-fashioned, theatrical delight.

Today in the roundup: Jubilee’s 2012-13 season, a lack of rock rooms in Fort Worth and for-profit lessons for the non-profit world.

Today in the roundup: Opera in various forms in Fort Worth, plus Calatrava’s problems in his native Spain.

The Big Deal is giving away 2 pairs of tickets to see Jersey Boys at the Winspear Opera House on June 15. Learn how you could win!

Presented by the Fort Worth Opera, Mozart’s classic ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ makes it’s way to Bass Performance Hall. Four lucky winners of this week’s Big Deal will receive a pair of tickets.

Learn how you can win dinner for two and tickets to see ‘Red Hot Patriot,’ any Friday thru June 17.

Today in the roundup: The end of Jazz Under the Stars, how American Idiot began and parking problems in Bishop Arts.

Dallas author Ben Fountain wins praise from The New York Times, high schoolers win awards from the Dallas Summer Musicals and the Arboretum wins the right to mow some grass but it may lose the war. Talk about a jam-packed Monday Roundup.

The Alamo comes to North Texas, Dallas’ black journalists give Beyonce some props and various hires and whatnot were announced: It’s the Friday arts news roundup.

He will soon become power-mad and fame-obsessed.