Today in the roundup: Designing sets at Dallas Children’s Theater, searching for missing Fort Worth artists and restoring the DMA’s history online.

Unlike most writers, Victorian novelist George Eliot actually led a fairly dramatic life – writing as a man and living with a married one. But that life hasn’t been staged until A Most Dangerous Woman. Now, if only it could be a better drama.

The Fahari Arts Institute is only three years old, but it has already become North Texas’ only black, gay arts organization to offer a full roster of year-round programming: dance, lecture, films, gallery shows and readings. Fouinder-director Harold Steward says it all happened because people kept asking him for help in finding artists.

The Oak Cliff native, whose Trinity River Plays was premiered by the Dallas Theater Center last year, is one of five playwrights given money, benefits and full stage productions for five years by the celebrated off-Broadway company, the Signature Theater.

The DTC opens its season with a stripped-down but fancied up Tempest. It’s director Kevin Moriarty’s best Bard to date because stripped-down and fancied-up, it plays like a heartfelt fairy tale — thanks to a couple of truly moving performances.

Yes, it’s Monday (boo) but that just means you have plenty to look forward to this week (yay!).

Happy Monday! Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to opening night of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird” at Casa Mañana.

Today in the roundup: A list of top writing programs ruffles feathers, previewing Modern Cinema and Broadway by way of Plano.

North Texas author Merritt Tierce has been waiting tables at a steakhouse — the source for her stories in the collection she’s been working on, Love Me Back. The waitress stories have paid off to the tune of $25,000.

New grants and loans to help arts stimulate economic recovery; a new director debuts with DSO Chorus, an opportunity to give, and one to get. Plus a look at Dallas City Design Studio.