DALLAS ARTS MONTH 2025
  • ​PNC Patio Sessions
    • Samons Park (2403 Flora St.)
    • March 20 - May 15, 2025
    • Free concerts in Sammons Park + happy hour! Hosted right outside the Flora Cantina, the outdoor space offers live music, beverages – including wine, beer and cocktails – and regional Texan and Mexican cuisines.
  • Dallas Arts Month Kick-Off
    • Latino Cultural Center (2600 Live Oak St.)
    • March 27, 2025
    • The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture will join with elected leaders, artists, and arts leaders to kick off Dallas Arts Month with a press conference at the Latino Cultural Center to celebrate 12 years of highlighting the diverse, vibrant, and growing arts community. There will be performances by Dallas area artists, along with remarks from city leadership and Dallas arts leaders.
  • Intimate Apparel
    • Theatre Three (2688 Laclede St, Ste. 120)
    • March 2 - April 20, 2025
    • ​Step into early 20th-century New York City with this captivating drama by Lynn Nottage, one of the greatest living playwrights and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. The story explores the journey of ambition and personal growth as Esther, an African-American seamstress, navigates a complex web of relationships and romantic correspondence with a distant admirer.
  • ​​Art on Main Spring Artist Open Studios
    • Art on Main (4428 Main St.)
    • March 29, 2025
    • Meet our talented artists, explore their studios, and immerse yourself in their stunning creations. As nature awakens, so can we—moving mindfully through the vibrant energy of art and renewal. Surrounded by inspiring artwork, we’ll slow down, breathe deeply, and connect with the creative pulse of the season. Visit website for more April events. 
  • ​Art in the Park
    • Fair Park (1465 1st Ave.)
    • March 29 - June 28, 2025
    • Get creative and learn new techniques with artist Karla Ceballos. Each week, participants can explore a variety of media fit for all ages and expertise levels. All art supplies are provided free of charge.
  • Dallas College Arts Month: April 2025
    • Dallas College 
    • ALL APRIL
    • Dallas College Arts Month is a vibrant celebration of their thriving artistic community. It highlights the extraordinary creativity and talent of Dallas College students, faculty and staff across the arts and cultural landscape. Dallas College invites the community to join them in experiencing and participating in dynamic events, performances and exhibitions throughout the month. Visit website for events.
  • ​Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live
    • Winspear Opera House (2403 Flora St.)
    • April 1, 2025
    • Prepare to be enchanted! Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live, the groundbreaking 2.5D musical, is bringing the iconic “Sailor Moon” world to life like never before.
  • Funk Family Upstander Speaker Series: Barry Black and the Oklahoma City Bombing
    • Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum (300 N Houston St.)
    • April 2, 2025
    • Thirty years ago, on the morning of April 19, 1995, a powerful bomb exploded at the entrance of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and injuring approximately 850. Perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran, the bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
  • 2025 Nasher Prize Laureate Otobong Nkanga
    • Nasher Sculpture Center (2001 Flora St.)
    • April 3-6, 2025 
    • Learn more about the 2025 Nasher Prize Laureate Otobong Nkanga, whose evocative works speak to the complex, often fragile relationships between humans, the land, and its resources, touching on issues of consumption, global circulation, connectivity, and care.
  • Flamenco, Fado, and Flute
    • La Cantera Arts Conservatory (1050 North Westmoreland Road #328)
    • April 4, 2025
    • Welcome to the Spring Residency Kick Off Performance: An Evening of World Music! Join us at La Cantera Arts Conservatory for a night filled with captivating rhythms and melodies from around the globe. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of sounds as talented musicians take the stage to showcase their diverse cultural influences 
  • Deep Ellum Community Arts Fair
    • 200 N Crowdus St.
    • April 4-6, 2025
    • ​This free-to-attend, three-day celebration of art and music kicks off Dallas Arts Month with a bang. The Deep Ellum Community Arts Fair is the largest arts festival in the City, inviting tens of thousands of visitors to explore six vibrant blocks overflowing with original art, live performances, and culinary delights.
  • Lochwood Library Art Exhibition
    • Lochwood Library (11221 Lochwood Blvd.)
    • April 5-21, 2025
    • Join the Casa View Art Association and Lochwood Library Friends for a vibrant art exhibit celebrating local creativity at the Annual Lochwood Library Art Exhibit! This free event will showcase the incredible talent of our local Casa View artists, featuring a diverse collection of paintings, photography, and mixed media works. Connect with neighbors, and enjoy an inspiring display of artistic expression.
  • Lone Star Wind Orchestra - THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH
    • Moody Performance Hall (2520 Flora St.)
    • April 6-7, 2025
    • Music and nature share a special kind of synergy that can be both soothing and inspiring. Music can enhance our experience of nature evoking a sense of appreciation and wonder for our planet.
  • Dallas Winds - Catch Fire!
    • Meyerson Symphony Center (2301 Flora St.)
    • April 8, 2025
    • ​Richard Strauss: Festival Intrada (with organ) John Mackey: Kingfishers Catch Fire Tribute to Rudy Wiedoeft (Don Lefevre, saxophone) Respighi: Feste Romane.
  • The Creative Exchange
    • Oak Cliff Cultural Center (223 W Jefferson Bvd.)
    • April 8, 2025
    • Welcome to The Creative Exchange! TCE is a space where nonprofit, for-profit, and creative sectors intersect. This mixer encourages discussions and connections about the potential for partnerships, exploration, and more between these sectors
  • Dallas Art Fair
    • Fashion Industry Gallery (1807 Ross Ave.)
    • April 10-13, 2025
    • In the heart of the downtown arts district, the Dallas Art Fair offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with a rich selection of modern and contemporary artworks presented by leading national and international galleries. 
  • 2025 Dallas Arts District Changing Perspectives Block Party
    • AT&T Performing Arts Center Sammons Park and surrounding streets (2403 Flora St.)
    • April 11, 2025
    • I​n celebration of Dallas Arts Month, Dallas Arts District is hosting the annual Changing Perspectives Block Party: A Cultural Festival, April 11, 2025, 6:30-11:30pm (Rain date, April 12). This FREE family-friendly event will feature SWAY, a Melbourne-based performing arts company that designs, produces, and performs large-scale performances and site-specific installations fusing theater, dance, and circus using a unique combination of sway-pole apparatus and bespoke performance equipment. 
  • Video Art Night 2025, presented by AURORA
    • AT&T Discovery District (308 S Akard St.)
    • April 11, 2025
    • AURORA and Downtown Dallas, Inc. are thrilled to present Video Art Night (VAN) in celebration of Dallas Arts Month. The fourth edition of this immersive, one-night exhibition of moving image in an outdoor public setting.
  • TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND Presents Whim W'Him
    • Winspear Opera House (2403 Flora St.)
    • April 11, 2025
    • TITAS welcomes Whim W’Him in their Texas Debut. Cool, innovative, spectacular dancers, Whim W’Him is the “It” company from the West Coast. 
  • Pretty Fire
    • Latino Cultural Center (2600 Live Oak St.)
    • April 11-19, 2025
    • Soul Rep Theatre Company will continue its 30th Anniversary year with PRETTY FIRE, the regional premiere of celebrated Broadway actress and playwright, Charlayne Woodard’s inspirational autobiographical tale of growing up during the Civil Rights Era, April 11 – April 19 at The Latino Cultural Center, near downtown Dallas.
  • ​Big Heart Theater at Pleasant Grove Library
    • Pleasant Grove Library Theater (7310 Lake June Road)
    • April 12, 2025
    • Big Heart Theater empowers teens and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to create and perform one-of-a-kind theatrical experiences for themselves and their communities — forever redefining disabilities as possibilities. We are proud to partner with Kitchen Dog Theater in producing "Rhythm&Clues&Courage", a R&B musical taking place in an aspiring supper club in the 70's that is struggling against the mob and crooked police.​

  • Instant Improv with Dallas Children's Theater
    • Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway)
    • April 12, 2025
    • Join the Dallas Children's Theater at Klyde Warren Park as they guide audiences through dramatics and theater! Listen along with the Dallas Children’s Theater, take on characters and act out stories! Perfect for little actors .
  • Cake & Prose: Tatiana Obey
    • South Dallas Cultural Center (3400 S Fitzhugh Ave.)
    • April 12, 2025
    • Cake and Prose is a unique, free literary event with a focus on genre fiction, local talent, and cake. The ingredients are simple:Three stories. An author shares three stories — read by three different actors.
  • Downtown Dallas Arts & Music Festival
    • Main Street Garden (1902 Main St.)
    • April 12-13, 2025
    • In celebration of Dallas Arts Month, Downtown Dallas, Inc. in partnership with FGIII Fine Art Productions and The Creatives Factory will host the third-annual Downtown Dallas Arts & Music Festival (DDAMF) 2025.
  • Shamrock Tenors
    • Winspear Opera House (2403 Flora St.)
    • April 13, 2025
    • ​​Taking you on a journey through Ireland’s most beloved classic songs, this new music sensation has already sold out venues across 30 countries and flown to the top of the charts.
  • R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - A Celebration of The Music of Aretha Franklin
    • The Majestic Theatre (1925 Elm St.)
    • April 13, 2025
    • R.E.S.P.E.C.T is an electrifying tribute celebrating the music of the legendary Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. This concert experience takes audiences on a journey of love, tragedy, courage, and triumph. Starring a live band and supreme vocalists, come experience a night of music by one of the greatest artists of all time.


  • ​The Seven Last Words of Christ
    • New Hope Baptist Church (5002 S. Central Expressway)
    • April 13, 2025 
    • ​​The South Dallas Concert Choir and the New Hope Baptist Church Choir present The Seven Last Words of Christ, a cantata by Théodore DuBois. Guest artists include Audrey Peterbark, Soprano; Damond Corbin, Tenor; and Mark Anthony Brown, Bass. The public is invited; admission is free.
  • Mean Girls
    • ​Winspear Opera House (2400 Flora St.)
    • April 17-19, 2025
    • Direct from Broadway, MEAN GIRLS is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team, including book writer Tina Fey (“30 Rock”), composer Jeff Richmond (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde) and original director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon).
  • Plague Mask Players Presents Alice
    • Wyly Studio Theatre (2400 Flora St.)
    • April 17-27, 2025
    • Alice by Ara Vito is a movement and storytelling-focused adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, told through the lens of a female playwright and ensemble cast of all female and non-binary performers.
  • ​Maihar Melodies
    • Artstillery Space (723 Ft. Worth Ave.)
    • April 20, 2025
    • A musical tribute to Maihar Gharana, the legendary lineage of Hindustani instrumental music, in loving memory of our Guru Sarode Maestro Ustad Aashish Khan (Dec. 5, 1939-Nov. 14, 2024).

  • Diana Krall
    • Winspear Opera House (2403 Flora St.)
    • April 22, 2025
    • Diana Krall is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. To date, her albums have garnered two GRAMMY® Awards, ten Juno® Awards and have earned nine Gold, three Platinum, and seven multi-Platinum albums.
  • 55th Annual USA Film Festival
    • Angelika Film Center Dallas (5321 E Mockingbird Ln.)
    • April 23-27, 2025
    • 55th Annual USA Film Festival in Dallas celebrates the art of cinema with a dynamic lineup of screenings, filmmaker Q&As, and special tributes. As one of the nation's longest-running film festivals, it continues to bring together audiences and industry professionals to experience storytelling on the big screen.
  • Circo Estrella de Dallas
    • 3201 Samuell Blvd.
    • April 24-27, 2025
    • Get ready for an unforgettable experience as the Office of Arts & Culture, Community Arts Division, and Lone Star Circus invite you to celebrate Dallas Arts Month under the dazzling big top! Join us for FOUR incredible evenings of high-flying excitement, jaw-dropping feats, and non-stop fun as we shine a spotlight on the awe-inspiring world of circus arts at the Circo Estrella de Dallas.
  • Uptown Players is presenting "Xanadu: The Musical"
    • ​Kalita Humphreys Theater (3636 Turtle Creek Blvd.)
    • April 24-May 4, 2025
    • Step into a world of glitter, glam, and roller disco as Uptown Players proudly presents Xanadu: The Musical. This hilarious, roller-skating musical adventure about following your dreams despite the limitations others set for you rolls along to the original hit score composed by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar.
  • The Grown-Ups By Simon Henriques & Skylar Fox from Kitchen Dog Theater
    • ​​Samuell-Grand Amphitheatre (1500 Tenison Prky.)
    • April 24 - May 11, 2005
    • The campers are all finally asleep, and the lake is getting quiet. Have a beer; make a s’more; tell a scary story. Figure out what you’re going to have to do in the morning to keep camp fun and safe without letting the kids find out about... well, you’ve seen the news.
  • DBDT: Encore! Presents: Rising Excellence
    • Moody Performance Hall (2520 Flora St.)
    • April 25-26,2025
    • DBDT: Encore! returns home to close out their 25th anniversary season with a showcase of the next generation of artistic greatness.
  • Dallas International Film Festival 2025
    • Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas (2365 Victory Park Ln.)
    • April 25 – May 1, 2025
    • The 2025 Dallas International Film Festival, happening April 25–May 1, 2025, is a seven-day celebration featuring over 125 premiere screenings, documentaries, short films, filmmaker panels, and nightly red carpets, along with events and hubs where filmmakers, industry leaders, celebrities, and audiences come together to celebrate and discuss film.
  • Vino & Vibes: Vivaldi, Vitali, and Valpolicella
    • ​Meadows Hall, Sammons Center of Arts  (3630 Harry Hines Blvd.)
    • April 25, 2025
    • ​From ravishing madrigals and arias to rompin’, stompin’ chaconnes of the 17th-18th centuries, hear Lumedia Musicworks’ core ensemble at its finest. Sip wines from the regions that bore these varied and exquisite works from Northern Italy.
  • Studio 22 Salsa Dance Lesson & Party​Dance Class
    • Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway) 
    • April 25, 2025
    • ​Check out Studio 22 at Klyde Warren Park as they spice up your night with a free salsa dance class in the Park. Then stay to practice your hot new moves at the dance party, and enjoy beer, margaritas and food from Mi Cocina’s La Parada.
  • D'JAM Jazz Stroll in the Arts District
    • Dallas Arts District (Flora St.)
    • April 26, 2025
    • A wonderful afternoon of great jazz music with jazz ensembles performing in multiple Arts District venues indoors and outdoors.
  • Festival of Joy
    • Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Fwy.)
    • April 26, 2025
    • Join us for a fun-filled day of bright colors, beautiful flowers and a free vegetarian feast, along with riveting music, dance and interactive holistic living and cultural activities.​
  • Champions of Magic
    • Winspear Opera House (2403 Flora St.)
    • April 27, 2025
    • “Dazzles audiences with a show like no other!” – Broadway World Following a decade touring the world as one of the most successful magic shows in history, the Champions Of Magic team are back with an explosive ALL NEW show featuring thrilling and mind-bending illusions. 
  • Command Performance + Gala
    • Winspear Opera House (2403 Flora St.)
    • April 26, 2025
    • ​​Unexpected | Cool | Exciting If you think you don’t know dance, this the event to see. Nothing compares to these performances by the world’s top and most innovative dance stars. This year features the best from New York City Ballet, MOMIX, Complexions, LINES Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and our own Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders! This is a Must-See event!
  • Mountain View Music Concert
    • ​Dallas College - Mountain View Performance Hall (​4849 W. Illinois Ave.)
    • April 29, 2025
    • ​A relaxing evening of music ensemble entertainment featuring students and faculty.
  • ​Brown Bag Lecture: Bob LaPrell
    • Hall of State in Fair Park (3939 Grand Ave.)
    • April 29, 2025
    • ​Join us for this FREE lunchtime lecture with Bob LaPrelle who will share insight on how the city’s infrastructure was shaped by the railroad industry and discuss the creation of the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas. 
  • Michael Feinstein in Because of You
    • Winspear Opera House (2403 Flora St.)
    • April 29, 2025
    • ​​Michael Feinstein brings to life Big Band Celebrations and the Tony Bennett legacy. Supported by the Carnegie Hall Big Band, Feinstein pays a heartfelt tribute to the legendary Tony Bennett, bringing his iconic songs to life in a symphony of sound.