Performing Arts

Day Phan says he’s entering his “Fat Elvis” phase.

This week’s best events in Dallas include screenings of family-friendly animated shorts, Dat Phan and a week of summer camp activities at the Dallas Museum of Art.

A new Dallas dance troupe has a lot of New York moves.

This week’s Things to Do in Dallas is full of special Fourth of July celebrations and gatherings from Dallas to Denton as well as live comedy, plays and outdoor performances from Shakespeare Dallas.

The comedian known in TikTok circles as that guy who tells stories with autotune says it took a while to find his place in the world. Now he’s touring the world doing comedy with heart and a beat.

If you follow comedy at all, then your social media feeds are filling up with clips, ads and tasteful shirtless pics of comedian Matt Rife. If you’re not a youngin’ and/or think Tiktok is a deep state globalist counterinsurgency of some kind, you’re probably wondering, “Who in the hell is Matt Rife and why should I care?”

The new production by Canadian dreammakers Cirque du Soleil is a real stunner. Take a peek through our photos.

Actor Esteban Vilchez says he had to practicing singing the songs for Disney’s Tarzan while running on a treadmill.

This week’s collection of things to do include a fundraiser for a Dallas comedy icon, a retelling of one of Disney’s classic animated film on the stage and a performance by comedian John Early.

Agora Artists cedes the dance floor to actual dancers.

This week you’ll have the chance to take a run on the world’s biggest bounce house, meet Daniel Tiger and his friends and watch a horror classic in the scariest possible setting.

Events this week include Texas Ballet Theater at the Wyly, Peelander Yellow at Kettle Art Gallery, and Texas photographers at PDNB Gallery.

George Lopez now knows who “that motherfucker” Ralph Barbosa is. He found out the hard way. Episode 97 of Lopez’s OMG Hi! podcast, which premiered Feb. 6, featured guest speaker and comedian Steve Treviño, who tours nationally and whose comedic roots stem from Dallas.

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).

You know you’re getting old when every entertainment token from your childhood- bands, series, films – starts getting reunited, remade, rebooted or in any way repackaged and sold to you again. And you’re the first sucker in line to buy it.

It’s that time of year when we get a small window of snow in Dallas and everyone and everything goes haywire. People show up late because of traffic caused by someone who doesn’t realize that icy roads can make their car drive into the path of another oncoming vehicle.

Imagine that you’re all dressed up and ready for opening night at The Dallas Opera. After enjoying a glass of wine in the lobby, you find your seat inside the Winspear Opera House and get comfortable just as the house lights dim.

The Stonewall uprising of 1969 brought the issue of LGBTQ rights to the forefront of America’s consciousness. It may have ignited a movement that’s led to the acceptance of LGBTQ people in so many

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.

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.

Don’t ever let someone tell you that comedy is dead. While some older comedians like to proclaim that “cancel culture” and “diversity” are making audiences too sensitive to deliver great comedy, we’ve seen some incredible new artists announce their presence over the past few years.