The Dallas Opera is headed to "Catfish Row" South Carolina for the fourth production of the company's 51st International Season. George Gershwin's unparalleled American masterpiece, PORGY & BESS, opens Friday, February 22, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Hall at Fair Park.

Dallas Theater Center's FRESH INK/Forward Motion series will present a reading of Hot Georgia Sunday, a dynamic new play by rising Southern writer Catherine Trieschmann, on Monday, February 11 at 7pm in DTC's Bryant Hall, downstairs in the Heldt Administration Building.

What would the Valentines season be without I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts. Theatre Three's mega-hit production returns for a limited engagement with all performances in Theatre Too!, Theatre Three's intimate downstairs playspace. I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change begins will run through Sunday, February 17, 2008.

Dallas Theater Center welcomes the return of E. Faye Butler (Dinah Was, 1999) in a new musical play celebrating Ella Fitzgerald, the incomparable First Lady of Song, through February 17, 2008 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) announced that Nona and Richard Barrett of Dallas have given more than 100 works from their outstanding private collection of contemporary Texas art to the permanent collections of both museums.

Dallas Theater Center welcomes the return of perennial holiday favorite, A Christmas Carol, through Dec. 24 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. A beloved Dallas tradition for over 20 years, this critically acclaimed production is directed and choreographed by Ft. Worth native Joel Ferrell.

Ben Stevenson, artistic director of Texas Ballet Theater, is proud to present the Ballet’s most celebrated production of the year, The Nutcracker, performed at Fort Worth’s Bass Performance Hall and Dallas’ Music Hall at Fair Park. Tickets for The Nutcracker start at $18.

British-turned-Mexican surrealist painter Leonora Carrington turned 90 in April of 2007, and the Dallas Museum of Art’s new exhibition will celebrate the artist’s long and productive life, highlighting works from the late 1930s to the 1980s.

The Dallas Opera’s once-in-a-lifetime 50th Anniversary Gala & Concert, “Bravo 5O!” starring the opera world’s most glamorous and beloved soprano, Renée Fleming, with special guest star Chris Botti, will take place Saturday, November 17, 2007 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in
downtown Dallas.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is proud to present the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Academy of Russian Choral Music, led by renowned maestro Constantine Orbelian and featuring Metropolitan Opera Star Dimitri Hvorostovsky, in concert for one night only - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.

The Dallas Opera is pleased to announce a series of pre-season events 'Opera-Feast' leading up to opening night of the 2007-2008 "Death by Diva!" Season on November 9, 2007.

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced it will host a retrospective of photographs taken by department store magnate Stanley Marcus (1905-2002), a man who shaped the history of Dallas, the Lone Star state and fashion in America.