This week has us exhausted from all the decision fatigue. There are so many cool things to do, which ones do we choose? The Boulet Brothers, Darken, Less A Light On and Deep Vellum’s Anniversary Celebration are just a few to choose from.
This week, escape streaming delays and get out to fest, fest, fest! Dallas Art Fair, EarthxExpo and Shakespeare Dallas’ The Henriad are just a few options.
Everyone has a little bit of mystery in their past, otherwise we wouldn’t have online ancestry sites. But Anya in touring Broadway musical Anastasia, doesn’t have a laptop in the 1920s as she navigates from Russia to the stunning world of Paris.
March might go out like a lamb, but there are a lot of dogs in the mix this week: Get doggie photos with the Easter Bunny or check out a Dog Days Fashion Show, among other human events.
Make Miley proud and buy yourself flowers. But like, you know, do it where you don’t have to take care of them or watch them die. Hit up Dallas Blooms: Great Contributors at the Dallas Arboretum (8525 Garland Road) and take in the sights and scents of more than 500,000 blooming flowers including tulips, hyacinth, and daffodils.
The Dallas Mavericks are the coolest team in the NBA (obviously), but did you know that they claim the original male performance squad in the league? That’s right the Mavs ManiAACs are the hip-hop dance crew you love to see in the stands and on the floor busting moves and team colors.
March comes in like a lion with some strong opportunities for Dallas audiences. “On Your Feet,” “Silver Foxes” and the “28th annual El Corazón Exhibition” are just a few.
Events this week include Texas Ballet Theater at the Wyly, Peelander Yellow at Kettle Art Gallery, and Texas photographers at PDNB Gallery.
If you missed the Edgar-nominated crime writer at her Arts & Letters Live event on Valentine’s Day, love is not lost. Dallasite Kathleen Kent will be dazzling audiences with another reading and signing of her latest Black Wolf 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at Interabang Books (5600 W. Lovers Lane).
There are way too many cool things to say about Maureen “Mo” Beck, but we’ll hit the high notes (pun fully intended) that will get you to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science (2201 N. Field St.) for the National Geographic Live Speaker Series presented by Charles Schwab 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8. Beck grew up climbing around Maine after defying a camp counselor who told her to skip a rock climbing activity.
Arts Mission Oak Cliff (410 S. Windomere Ave.) is doing the Kit Kat Club right, and we know this because they have a recommendation that this production of Cabaret not only features strobes and haze, but is best meant for audiences 16 and older. As romance blooms in the dynamic Berlin club circa 1931, Nazi presence is growing stronger and suppressing the creative, theatrical and non-conforming.
Always offering a variety of stunning exhibitions, Conduit Gallery (1626-C Hi Line Drive) serves up a triple dose of color and form. Hanging through February 11, audiences can take in the cognitive and clinical psychology-influenced patterns of Susan Barnett, which also serve as meditative tools, the play of fiber and light from Marco Querin, and folk art-reverent narratives from Gabe Langholtz.
Fans of page-turners will likely recognize the name Rachel Hawkins thanks to her 2021 Southern, salty gothic swerve on Jane Eyre, The Wife Upstairs. Now she’s showing up with another gothic murder romp, but sending us to Italy.
Preschool-age kids can gather round storyteller Oba William King for a selection of stories and songs about Kwanzaa. And the educational fun doesn’t end with that, because King also takes participants through a craft to even further engage them.
If you’re still needing to grab that perfect photo for a profile pic, a digital holiday card or the ‘gram, we got you. Actually, Galleria Dallas has you.
The story goes that beloved, be-lettered authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were friends who were both fans of mythology (not a shocker considering their work) and apparently, Christmas. At least in the way that Tolkien helped Lewis see a new and better meaning for Christmas.
People talk a lot about the magic of Christmas, but now the magic is really coming to life because Cirque du Soliel is here. With a show based on the beloved Clement Clarke Moore poem, Cirque brings a beautiful acrobatic show designed so the whole family catches the spirit of Christmas.
Don’t ask how it got here so fast, but the holidays officially began when you took that final bite of turkey and mash last week.
WaterTower Theatre is celebrating its 27th season and the opener isn’t some quiet effort, but a big rock opera of Biblical proportions. Literally. The company is hitting the stage with Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar.
It’s not all about the human kids. Furry and feathered friends deserve to tell the jolly man in the red suit which toys they want with a bow on top, and Galleria Dallas (13350 Dallas Parkway) is making that possible before we even get to Turkey time.
This legendary seasonal shopping event is celebrating 45 years of charity this year. And sure, we could put this on the three days (Thursday through Saturday) when the admission is $20, but Wednesday is Premiere Shopping Night from 6 to 10 p.m. in the Fair Park Automobile Building.
Sock monkey? Nah. As McSweeney’s has made it clear, “it’s decorative gourd season, motherfuckers!” And this is your chance to make one for free!
