Two area museums celebrated important milestones this week. The Museum of Nature & Science on Wednesday broke ground on a new building at Victory Park. And the new $80 million Fort Worth Museum of Science and History opens today. KERA’s Stephen Becker toured the new space:

The new Legorreta + Legorreta-designed Fort Museum of Science and History is open — a major upgrade in the Cultural District. It features a new planetarium, dinsoaur exhibitions and mini-museums devoted to cattle, Fort Worth history, energy (basically, the oil and gas industry) and even the science of CSI. We talk with vice president of development Carl Hamm about balancing education with entertainment.

Weird science, that is. In Port Twilight, playwright Len Jenkin creates a surreal city in which different visions of the future are being sought out and decoded: genetic, messianic and cinematic. The Undermain Theater's splendid world premiere is a dark, comic carnival where scientists dance, an alien speaks, a rabbi despairs and a shlocky filmmaker worries about getting the future right. Jerome Weeks reviews.

Five hundred people attended the groundbreaking Wednesday afternoon for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Victory Park. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports on how the museum got its name.

Inspired by cellist Yo-Yo Ma's popular Silk Road recordings, Fort Worth Symphony music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya has begun a series of concerts and CDs, Caminos del Inka — "Trails of the Incas." They showcase three centuries of orchestral music from the Pacific Coast South American countries once part of the Incan Empire. The FWSO brings the project back for concerts in Bass Hall this week — after talking to us on Think.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll look at a classic Texas dance hall that has become a world famous tourist destination.

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History opens Nov. 20, and they're still getting the new Legorreta+Legorreta-designed building ready. But an early peek at the Noble Planetarium finds the first ZKP-4 in the Southwest fully functioning and traveling to galaxies far, far way. Forget your old grade-school visit to a planetarium to see some constellations. This baby is cosmic.

Emmy Award-winning actor-director Charles Dutton has led a remarkable life. He's a twice-convicted felon who still managed to graduate from the Yale School of Drama. But on Saturday in Fort Worth, when he presented his one-man autobiographical show, From Jail to Yale – Serving Time on Stage, it wasn't his life story that was spellbinding. Jerome Weeks reviews.

When Calvin Littlejohn came to Fort Worth in 1934, white newspapers wouldn't run photos of African-Americans. Ironically, segregation gave Littlejohn his life's work: chronicling Fort Worth's middle-class black community. Bob Ray Sanders, author of a new book on Littlejohn, talks to Krys Boyd about growing up in Jim Crow North Texas.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll remember an eclectic Texas musician who continues to defy categorization.