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The City of Fort Worth announced today that Veterans Memorial Airpark has been designated a Blue Star Museum. This designation is a partnership among Blue Star Families, the National Endowment for the Arts and more than 750 museums in all 50 states to offer free admission to military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day, Sept. 6, 2010.

SceneShop presents its annual tribute to a distinguished American talent in Men. Women. Dogs. A Thurber Celebration. This hour-long trip through the funny and absurd creations of author and cartoonist James Thurber will be presented twice, on June 17 at UTA, and on June 19 at The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth. Both performances are free and open to the public.

Casa Mañana and Performing Arts Fort Worth proudly present Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie: The Musical” at Bass Performance Hall June 8 through June 13, 2010. The production stars Melissa Gilbert (who played the role of Laura in the long-running TV series) as “Ma”. Tickets to this family-friendly treat are still available!

The 2010 Trinity Shakespeare Festival opens June 8 and runs through June 27 at the Bushman Theatre on the campus of TCU. This year, the epic tragedy of Hamlet will alternate dates with the beloved romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Tickets to each production are only $20.00 for Adults and $10.00 for Students and Seniors. Get yours before they sell out!

Theatre Arlington presents Leading Ladies, an outrageously funny comedy by Ken Ludwig, the genius behind the crowd-pleasing smash hit, Lend Me a Tenor. Two Shakespearean actors masquerade as demure young heiresses as part of an elaborate con game – and get themselves into some very “hairy” predicaments! Tickets are on sale now!

Symphony Arlington is pleased to announce that the orchestra will be moving into their new home, the Arlington Music Hall, formerly known as the Johnny High Country Music Revue. The newly renovated hall is part of a larger downtown Arlington restoration project intended to revive the downtown area and provide a place where the Arlington community can gather. To celebrate, the Symphony is offering discounted tickets online for the upcoming 2010–2011 season during June.

It plays to sold-out houses every time they bring it back. Now, by popular demand, Granbury Opera House revisits The Night the Music Died, a recreation of the final concert performed by Buddy Holly, J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, and Ritchie Valens in early February 1959. Later that night, all three performers would be killed in a plane crash and the course of American musical history would change forever.

Onstage in Bedford will present A. R. Gurney’s charming Love Letters on May 22 at 8:00 PM, for one night only. Proceeds from the production will be used to help defray medical expenses for longtime Onstage volunteer Lanice Thompson, who recently underwent expensive surgery for a very serious heart condition. Tickets are $15.00; the play will be preceded by a reception and silent auction at 6:30 PM.

Why do grownups insist on acting like children? Theatre Arlington has an answer … because it’s so hysterically funny when they do! Todd Hart directs a cast that includes the inimitable B. J. Cleveland in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the award winning musical comedy that shows what happens when six maladjusted adolescents enter a competition supervised by equally dysfunctional adults! Tickets are on sale now!

Award winning playwright Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, The Skull of Connemara, The Pillowman) has been hailed as “the first great dramatist of the twenty-first century” by American Repertory Theatre’s Robert Brustein. No where is McDonagh’s genius for mining wicked humor out of darkness more evident than in The Lonesome West, playing at Stage West from April 15 to May 9. Tickets are on sale now!