Ever since archaeologists found the remains of the Rose Theater in 1989 — where Christopher Marlowe's dramas were once enacted — there's been an explosion of research into the Elizabethan playhouses. Scholars still haven't answered many puzzles — they're not even certain how many sides the Globe had. But they've found some of the first concrete clues to what the theaters were like, what stage life was like. London archaeologist Julian Bowsher gave a lecture Thursday at the Dallas Museum of Art — and spoke to Think.

In Cormac McCarthy's novels, the Texas-Mexico border is a major, dramatic life-changing event for young Anglos headed south. In Oscar Casares' writing, the border is a fact of life — to be negotiated, ignored, overcome. The Brownsville native talks to us about family legends, the border and his new novel, Amigoland.

It's a twofer. The Winspear had back-to-back openings this weekend — did you hear? — with the Dallas Opera and TITAS. Bill Zeeble reports on the response to Otello and Jerome Weeks reviews Philip Glass' Dracula.

Miss Emma was the force behind Black Images Book Bazaar for three decades and now devotes all of her time to a long list of lucky North Texas nonprofits. On Saturday, a grand bash will be held in honor of her 65th birthday. Meet Emma Rodgers in this week's Art&Seek Q&A.

In the Saturday Spotlight, we’re talking books at the 7th Annual Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair and Arts Festival.

In this episode of Think, Jerome Weeks interviews Texas-born artist Esther Pearl Watson, who found a teenager's diary in a truckstop bathroom. She turned it into Unlovable, her funny, grotesque graphic novel of high school life. And then there are her autobiographical pantings — the ones with spaceships.

Attica Locke made money as a screenwriter but no movies ever got made. So this time, she wrote a novel — inspired by incidents from her childhood and her father's life in Houston in the '80s. Now, her debut thriller, Black Water Rising, is getting her compared to such masters as Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos. Jerome Weeks reports.

Philip Haas' new exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum — Butchers, Dragons, Gods & Skeletons — is a jaw-dropper and an eye-dazzler. Five period paintings — from a Chinese scroll and a Baroque ceiling to James Ensor's macabre skeletons — become three-dimensional and hi-def digital. This is cinema and theater, painting and puppetry. All this, and the exhibition is free. Jerome Weeks reviews — with video clips.

Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux pretty much re-invented travel writing in the '70s with his acclaimed books, The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express. For his latest, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, he re-traced the trip across Europe and Asia that he took 35 years ago for the Railway Bazaar. Theroux will deliver the keynote address Friday at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. THINK guest host Jerome Weeks talks to Theroux about travel food, high-speed trains in Texas and going the wrong way through Europe.

David Rabe has been one of our most significant contemporary playwrights — from his Vietnam-era dramas (Streamers) to his scalding Hollywood satire (Hurlyburly). The Undermain Theatre has produced two of his more unusual plays, Goose and Tomtom and more recently, The Black Monk. With his latest novel coming out in paperback, and The Black Monk set to return in September, THINK guest host Jerome Weeks talks to Rabe about dogs, Joe Papp and adapting Anton Chekhov.