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Stage Notes Calendar
Opening this week:
Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Luisi Conducts Bruckner’s Ninth, today and Friday.
Rover Dramawerks: The Lady Demands Satisfaction, today-Feb. 1.
Echo Theatre: Silhouettes, Friday and Saturday at the Bath House Cultural Center.
FWSO Pops: Wild West Rodeo, Friday and Saturday.
MainStage ILC: How the Other Half Loves, Friday-Jan. 31.
Runway Theatre: Sordid Lives, Friday-Feb. 1.
Shakespeare Dallas: MacBeth, Friday-Feb. 1 at Theatre Three, pictured.
The Core Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird, Friday-Feb. 15.
AUDITION: Lewisville Playhouse: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 10 a.m. Saturday.
AUDITION: Theatre Arlington: The Wiz, Saturday.
MidCities Arts Collective:The Odd Couple, Saturday-Jan. 25 at Platinum Music Complex.
Bottley Entertainment: Chosen at Gun Point, 7 p.m. Sunday at the Granville Arts Center.
Theatre Three: Fight Night!: The Duelist, 7 p.m. Monday.
AUDITION: Pocket Sandwich Theatre: Arsenic and Old Lace, Tuesday and Wednesday.
WaterTower Theatre, The Graduate, Tuesday-Feb. 8.
Onstage now:
Broadway Dallas: Kimberly Akimbo, through Sunday.
Second Star Theatre Co.: Steel Magnolias, thorugh Sunday at Venue on Main.
Shen Yun, through Jan 25 at the Eisemann Center.
Pocket Sandwich Theatre: The Final Adventure of Hercules – The Melodrama, Friday-Feb. 14.
Circle Theatre to kick off its 2026 ICONIC season with a bold, visible moment
On Friday, Jan. 24 at 6:30 p.m., Fort Worth’s Circle Theatre will unveil a brand-new street-facing look for the theatre, transforming how the space appears from the sidewalk and reintroducing Circle to downtown Fort Worth in a fresh way.
At the unveiling, Circle will also reveal its 2026 season mural by Artist-in-Residence Leah Mazur. The mural will represent the ICONIC season and be a year-long landmark for audiences and passersby.
The kickoff will happen at the theater located in Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth. Guests are invited to gather outside and inside to experience the new street-facing design, view the mural for the first time and celebrate the beginning of a new season. The evening will include music, drinks, and a festive atmosphere as Circle invites the community to be part of this next chapter.
Admission is free, but RSVP is encouraged. Guests can reserve their spot here.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra announces its new 2026/27 season
FWSO continues its film with orchestra programming into its 2026/27 season. (Phota via FB)
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) announced its upcoming season under the leadership of four-time Grammy® Award-winning Music Director Robert Spano and Principal Guest Conductor Dame Jane Glover. This season, the FWSO adds non-traditional elements including dance, projections, actors and singers to its Symphonic and Pops programming. The season will also feature partnerhips with other organizations including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Sid Richardson Museum, The Cliburn, Bruce Wood Dance Dallas, Dallas Theater Center, Seraphic Fire, and others.
The upcoming 2026-2027 season begins with the Symphonic series for its first three weekends including a performance by 2025 Cliburn Gold Medal winner Aristo Sham.
Other season highlights include Jane Glover conducting the Brilen Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings featuring FWSO’s Principal Horn Gerry Wood and British Tenor Ian Bostridge, and landscapes from the Kimbell Art Museum’s collection accompanying Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6.
Bruce Wood Dance Dallas returns to interprets another work by Mahler, the Songs of a Wayfarer song cycle.
On the Pops and Specials series, the FWSO continues its expanded programming of movies with full orchestra, including Hook, Batman and The Wizard of Oz, and important programs built around contemporary video game music.
The orchestra will also welcome back Pink Martini.
See the full schedule here.
–Rich Lopez
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