And the ways to fill your schedule don't stop here — check out our full events calendar for even more ways to get through the week in North Texas.
Wednesday, Sept. 10
Snip & Swap: A Plant Clipping Exchange at Lancaster-Kiest Branch Library
Thursday, Sept. 11
Double Cut at Cox Playhouse
Rover Dramawerks is bringing twists, turns and thrills to the stage with the opening of Double Cut this Thursday, Sept. 11. A diamond heiress (totally relatable, right?) is faced with a stranger who shows up and claims to be her long-dead brother. He’s got all the papers and weird family knowledge, but something is off. Or is she the one with the secret? There’s hysteria, suspicion and a cache of stolen diamonds somewhere. Find out who-done-it, or who’s going to do it as the production runs through Sept. 27 at the Cox Playhouse (1517 H Ave. in Plano). Find tickets online.
Friday, Sept. 12
Going Home: A Group Exhibition at PDNB Gallery
PDNB Gallery will not go quietly, and for that we’re so grateful. The dependable and venerable photography advocates are celebrating 30 years in a brand new location. It may have taken them a bit further from Big D — in Little D, specifically — but the trip is worth it. Going Home, a group exhibition, opens Friday, Sept. 12 with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m., celebrating not only its new home in the basement of the Wells Fargo Bank Building (101 S. Locust, Denton) on the downtown square, but co-directors Missy and Burt Finger’s work as private art dealers there. Check out works from Keith Carter, Earlie Hudnall, Jeanine Michna-Bales and others, as the show runs through Oct. 11. Find more details online.
Third Annual It Came From Texas Film Festival at the Plaza Theatre
It’s baaack! The Plaza Theatre on the Garland Square is the place to be from Friday through Sunday as It Came From Texas Film Festival celebrates its third year with screenings of true Texas tales (and some other awesome attractions). Friday opens the fest with 1967’s classic Bonnie and Clyde followed by a comedic send-up and live riff of a secret Larry Buchanan film to be announced at the time of screening. Come back Saturday and Sunday for films from Richard Linklater’s murder gem, Bernie, to Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters. There’s plenty more, and even some John Wayne, where that came from. Find the full schedule online and grab tickets via Prekindle.
You Can’t Take It With You at Theatre Arlington
It’s one of the most produced plays and Theatre Arlington (305 W. Main St., Arlington) is giving everyone the opportunity to see it, for the first time or on repeat. You Can’t Take It With You combines the Sycamores and the Kirbys for a fateful dinner. Good-hearted Alice and her well-off love Tony want the blessing of their parents for their engagement. But Alice’s family may be a little too odd and unpolished for the upstanding Kirbys. They might come together if they realize… well, we know what the play is called. See opening night (Friday) through Sept. 28 after purchasing tickets online.
Saturday, Sept. 13
Trinity River Book Festival at Trinity Park Pavilion 1
September is National Literacy Month and that means it’s time for the Trinity River Book Festival. Hosted in the lovely Trinity Park in Fort Worth (Pavilion 1, 2201 W 7th St., Fort Worth), the festival combines author appearances across many genres from non-fiction to sci-fi and thriller to romance with wellness segments and entertainment. But first, the celebration kicks off with the Run-to-Read 5K run and 1K walk at 9 a.m. While admission is free, there are promotional giveaways and event updates, so be sure to RSVP. The full schedule and list of participating authors are also available online.
Who will fly highest in their homemade aircraft? The answer is at Red Bull Flugtag Dallas 2025.
Red Bull Flugtag
After more than a decade, Red Bull Flugtag, the ridiculous, raucous “flying” competition, returns to Lake Carolyn in Las Colinas. Over 30 teams and their fans will converge upon the lake Saturday to launch flying machines humble in power (human) but not in hubris. After all, it takes an abundance of confidence to not only launch a homemade creation off a deck 30-feet-high, but also to be judged doing it. Admission (and adrenaline) is free. Gates open at 11 a.m. at Levy Event Plaza (501 E. Las Colinas Blvd., Irving). Find out more and purchase Flight Club tickets online.
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra at Winspear Opera House
Jeff Goldblum is many things: The star of some of the highest-grossing films of all time. An accidental sex symbol. An intentional fashion plate. And an irresistible subject for memes. But it is his secondary (and no less successful) career that really defines him. Because, perhaps above all else, Jeff Goldblum is a jazz musician. As the leader and pianist of the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, he delivers a mix of classic jazz and American songbook standards in the Goldblum-iest of ways: charming, accessible, sophisticated and sweet. Goldblum’s high-watt charisma will no doubt make his upcoming show at the Winspear Opera House on Saturday, Sept. 13, an entertaining evening. Tickets are available online. —Kendall Morgan
Jeff Goldblum uses his Hollywood charisma to lead one hell of a jazz band.
courtesy AT&T Performing Arts Center
Sunday, Sept. 14
Roaming Mexico: Laura Wilson at Meadows Museum
Now, if you’re thinking, “Wait, I thought that was going to be a book of Laura Wilson’s photographs,” you’re not wrong. The Roaming Mexico title inspiring artist/author events at the likes of Interabang Books in October, is published to accompany the major exhibition of the Meadows Museum opening this Sunday, Sept. 14. The show features nearly 90 of Wilson’s photographs documenting more than three decades of the artist's travels and studies across the country. It shows incredible range of Wilson’s talents, of course, but also of the people and culture of Mexico. Subjects sometimes provide a vibrant harmony and other times, offer a distinct dissonance when put in juxtaposition. Don’t miss Wilson’s love letter from the lens, hanging through Jan. 11. Find more online.
Monday, Sept. 15
Hispanic Heritage Month with Joy Reyes art at Galleria Dallas
Hispanic Heritage Month begins Monday and Galleria Dallas has already started celebrating with a new Artist Collective exhibition featured in the art window on Level 1 near Sephora. Joy Reyes is a multidisciplinary artist who highlights both social inequities and the beauty of community through themes ranging from motherhood to religion. Her portraits are instantly captivating in their vivid hues and representation of humanity. See the exhibit through Oct. 15. Find out more about Galleria Dallas’s Artist Collective online.
Continuing Events
The Smurf Experience at the Arlington Museum of Art, through Sept. 14Against all odds, The Smurfs has been a pop culture staple for decades, with a new, star-studded movie slated for release this summer. (Insert snide remark about how Rihanna has time to play Smurfette but not drop a new album here.) In honor of this cinematic event, the Arlington Museum of Art has a new immersive experience where families can explore Smurf Village, meet the iconic characters and have their own Smurftastic adventure. More information and tickets can be found on the Arlington Museum of Art’s website.
Opera Box at Ochre House Theater, through Sept. 20
Ochre House Theater is really outdoing itself this time with Opera Box. Written and directed by Matthew Posey, the show combines song, dance, puppets, hilarious performances in verse and lots more. A poor family faces their own opioid crisis, then a Tibetan Book of the Dead changes their approach to the future. Opera Box opens Wednesday, Sept. 6, and runs through Sept. 20, but Ochre House offers a lovely gesture by way of a donate-what-you-can performance Monday, Sept. 8. Reserve a set and find out more online.
Earth Moves at The Bath House Cultural Center, through Sept. 27
Earth Moves, an exhibition by Dallas artist Terri Thoman, will display at The Bath Cultural Center (521 E. Lawthur Drive) through Sept. 27. Themed around “the powerful forces shaping our planet,” the show will feature etchings, monotypes and woodcuts spanning four decades of Thoman’s career and capture the “horror and beauty” of the earth and all that inhabit it. A reception will be held on Saturday to kick off the exhibition between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. More information can be found online.
Rusty Scruby and Raychael Stine at Cris Worley Fine Arts, through Oct. 25
CWFA (1845 E. Levee St.) celebrates the opening of two new exhibitions with an artists’ reception from 5 to 7 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 6. Dallas artist Rusty Scruby explores memory, loss, information distortion and more via pixelations, plays of gradients, and other abstractions in Summer Breeze. New Mexico’s Raychael Stine paints natural elements blended with the celestial to present the tender, the cosmic and sometimes disruptive in Stars and Springs and Stardust Things. See them both through Oct. 25 and find out more on the gallery’s website.
Nasher Public: Jóhann Eyfells, through Oct. 26
The Nasher Sculpture Center (2001 Flora St.) hosts a serene exhibition by Icelandic artist Jóhann Eyfells, through October 26. It’s a selection from Cairns, a body of work to which he contributed throughout his life. He made the various sculptures in a process that inherently opposes the natural behavior of the Earth: He poured molten liquid into the ground to fill gaps, holes and fissures. In a sense, the late Eyfells created beauty out of unknown emptiness. Find out more on the Nasher website.
Return to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama at the Dallas Museum of Art, through Jan. 18
“All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins,” one of Yayoi Kusama’s iconic “infinity room” installations, will be displayed at the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood St.) for the first time since 2018, starting Wednesday. The immersive exhibition at the DMA envelopes the viewer in a trippy, tangible display of art history. Kusama hails from the mythic '60s art scene. “Pumpkins,” created in 1991, incorporates many themes characteristic of the legendary artist’s work: infinity, the sublime, and obsessive repetition. And, of course, pumpkins — so many pumpkins. To book your appointment to honor these pumpkins, visit the DMA’s website.
Groundbreakers: Post-War Japan and Korea from the DMA Collection at The Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallas, through July 26
If you missed it at the Dallas Arts District location of The Crow, now’s your chance to see Groundbreakers: Post-War Japan and Korea from the DMA Collection… and consider that second degree. The Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallas offers up the fantastic exhibition that includes pieces created in fascinating ways: with feet, with a mouth, by pouring paint onto a canvas, and other methods that channeled convention after the considerably conventional 1950s. Don’t miss it. Find out more online.
