Performing Arts

There’s a fun little irony between comedians and Found Footage Festival founders Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher that plays out in their new documentary Chop & Steele.

Dear Dallas: The time has come to step out of your comfort zone and shake up the summer. If you’ve been hiding your impressive musical talents, have aspirations to be this generation’s Jerry Seinfeld or your ears are tired of listening to Harry’s House on repeat, show up to an…

We know and love the Mavs ManiAACs for their full-throttle hip-hop antics, but let’s not forget they pull some serious cred too. They are the original all-male performance squad for the NBA. Join the ManiAACs and the mascots for Your Dallas Mavericks from 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 15, on the Ge-0 Deck of Reunion Tower (300 Reunion Blvd.) for just one of the tower’s Summer in the Sky activities.

For decades The Dallas Opera has been bringing star-studded shows and performances to Dallas: from the outstanding U.S. debuts of international artists such as Dame Joan Sutherland and Plácido Domingo

Are you an angry male who’s mad at the world for birthing you during this historic time of striving for gender equity and lukewarm political socialism? Do you need a place to vent your rage through laughs without earning another 30-day ban from the paintball arena? Don’t worry. Joe Rogan…

The performers of Four Day Weekend usually don’t warm up before a show. The last 25 concurrent years have been one, long warm up for them.

The Nasher (2001 Flora St.) has been consistently giving us absolute bangers, as the kids say, with exhibition after exhibition this year. Wednesdays through Sundays, through September 11, visit with Magali Reus: A Sentence in Soil and discover new elements every time. In times where “taken out of context” is used in all too many conversations, in this visual one, the artist does just that by design, removing common objects from their typical surroundings.

Anime and gaming conventions are spread across the calendar in North Texas, but one convention that’s seen a sizeable amount of growth and popularity is returning to Arlington this summer.

Thanks to the Dallas Public Library system, we’re now aware it’s Zombie Awareness Month. Hence, from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, the Vickery Park branch (8333 Park Lane) will host the Amazing Zombie Race to find the cure for zombie-ness. It’s a task challenge around the library for individuals and teams of up to four.

There are endless arguments raging on social media and cable news about what’s acceptable on stage when it comes to comedy.

Have you ever wished you could spend one night doing something that didn’t involve the invasive use of technology without having to become Amish?

The panel show is a staple of British television. The BBC and other private networks are full of shows in which comedians compete in a parlor game for nothing but points, laughs and the opportunity to hold a meaningless win over their opponents’ heads. Could there be anything more American…

Ready to grab your movie hoodie and get back in the theater? You’re in luck. It’s time for the 52nd Annual USA Film Festival at Angelika Film Center (5321 E. Mockingbird Lane) from Wednesday through Sunday. Opening night on Wednesday features a double feature of short Texas documentaries The Portal and the Park and Texas Wines, as well as features The Pact (based on a true story) and The Phantom of the Open (starring Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins).

Since the time he blossomed in the Phoenix and San Francisco punk scenes of the 1980s, Gregg Turkington has worn many hats

This week, it rained cats and queens in Texas. On Monday night, as tornadoes and hail forced many North Texans to take shelter, one Dallas drag queen stole Mother Nature’s thunder by putting on a show in the rain.

Hecklers really don’t get the joke sometimes. Dallas comedians tell us what it’s like when audiences try to fight them.

What an insanely lasting pop culture reference, right? Since its premiere in 1965, we’ve been calling mismatched BFFs and roomies, odd couples. If something has that kind of impact, to essentially transcend slang, it’s gotta be a sign of a classic.

Female representation may be gaining momentum but its track record looks appalling even among some of the most enlightened and groundbreaking films.

Women’s representation in art still has a long way to go. The Kettle Art Gallery (2650-B Main St.) is holding a special exhibit to make sure some of the most promising female artistic in Dallas get their shot on its walls.

When it came time to start a comedy tour in America, Canadian comedian Sugar Sammy decided to start with the red states.

Learning can actually be fun. Yes, even during Spring Break. And yes, we realize how old we sound right now. But seriously, hear us out. We remember Spring Break could be a huge bore because we didn’t have anything to do.

It was about time someone gave Linda Stogner her own comedy special. She’s spent so much time, money and effort building a comedy community for Dallas that she deserves an hour of her own in the spotlight.