Posted March 9, 2026
The Center has a VERY close tie to the classic film of THE MUSIC MAN. One of the child stars of the movie grew up to have a son named Bill Spellman who grew up to become the Center's Director of Marketing Operations! Wowee! That's cool. Check out the classic photos and learn about the show here!
Posted February 6, 2026
Under cool fluorescent lights and hot pressure, an elite ticketing unit keeps this city moving one seat at a time. They don’t carry badges—they carry headsets. They are... The Call Center Crew. This is their story.
Posted January 23, 2026
Sometimes being an HR professional means empowering employees to be their full selves at work and sometimes it means the exact opposite. Ukari finds out the hard way when our Box Office Manager, Will gets a little too into Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern (running in the Wyly Theatre through February 1).
Posted December 5, 2025
This week, Dallas Theater Center's A Christmas Carol sparks a dramatic fight between friends. Sparks fly and the relationship comes CRASHING to the ground!
Posted November 17, 2025
This Week we welcome A Christmas Story: The Musical to the Center. Unfortunately, Paul Cathey has a tragic issue with his Leg lamp...
Posted October 20, 2025
This week Taylor Pace plays a free concert on Thursday and MAY(?) wear a very confusing costume for our Free Halloween Family Weekend on Saturday
Posted October 3, 2025
Someone in the office has a terrible secret! And that reminds us. We love TWILIGHT! Ahhh!!!
Posted September 12, 2025
Our Front of House Fairy, Anastasia Mora gives us a preview of Texas Ballet Theater's PETER PAN playing at the Winspear Opera House September 19 - 21. Her and Tinkerbell have... history.
Posted September 5, 2025
Hot scoop, Dallas! The Center is hoppin’ like a kangaroo on goofballs! We’ve got a comedy/mystery in black & white, toe-tappin’, science, jazz hotter than a jalapeño trumpet, and a Broadway legend whose high notes can activate your chakras! Your ticket to razzle-dazzle awaits!
Posted August 21, 2025
The Center is blessed with a FANTASTIC Education and Community engagement team. Through a range of donor and sponsor-supported programs each year, they help thousands of students and Dallas families explore the arts. And they do it all with smiles on their faces!
Posted July 28, 2025
The name on everybody's lips is gonna be KHAN! Star date Wednesday July 30th in the Majestic Theatre watch Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan with William Shatner! Then he chats with the audience!
Posted July 22, 2025
You've got questions. We've got answers. Starting with the biggest question of all - What IS the AT&T Performing Arts Center. We're more than meets the eye!
Posted July 11, 2025
This week you can catch Infinite Arts Movement's UNVEILING ECHOES: A JOURNEY TO SELF-DISCOVERY directed by Verb Kulture. Just be ready because you may LITERALLY discover yourself like Matt did.
Posted July 5, 2025
The amount of artistic offerings at the Center is ALWAYS truly astonishing. This week we have Dallas Theater Center's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and... er... um... er... um... well... um... er... gosh...
Posted June 27, 2025
Meet the team that keeps our venues in top-top shape. With hundreds of toilets and A/C units the size of a school bus, our campus is a challenge. But nothing the THE CREW can't handle. Thanks fellas!!!! You're the best in the biz!
Posted June 20, 2025
Our Assistant General Manager, Weston Keifer is the biggest and possibly the most annoying ADDAMS FAMILY fan in the metroplex! Their hilarious musical is in the Winspear Opera House June 26 - 28 and he has his coworkers CRASHING OUT.
Posted June 13, 2025
This week Matt welcomes the Dreamcoat from Dallas Theater Center's JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. The actor who wears it, Zachary J. Willis tagged along to tell everyone about the show - running through July 13 in the Wyly Theatre!
Posted June 6, 2025
If you don't go, there will be a whole version of you in another reality that did, and they won’t stop waving and smiling at you. That's the worst kind of missing out—the kind where you chose it, and it still feels like theft. Or something- Look, just GO see DARKFIELD in the next TWO WEEKS or the version of you that is YOU will miss it!
Posted May 30, 2025
The Center powers Ticketdfw.com to connect local presenters with local patrons. Bruce Wood Dance is a client and quickly regret meeting with Matt to talk about their new show ECHOES coming to the Moody performance Hall June 6 - 8.
Posted May 23, 2025
Doesn't stomping around and banging on stuff in perfect rhythm sound like every little kid's dream? Catch people living their dream this weekend when STOMP plays 2 performances in the Winspear Opera House!
Posted May 16, 2025
Please watch this very important video before attending a show at the Center this weekend. And on an unrelated note, Patti LuPone plays the Winspear Opera House on Saturday!
Posted May 9, 2025
This week's PNC Patio Session is a POOL PARTY! in our donor pool in Sammons Park. Get your floaties and chill with us for a free concert featuring TimLightYear.
Posted May 2, 2025
Musician Nathan Mongol Wells WILLINGLY does as parody of "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" to celebrate a busy week at the Center including a visit from PAUL SIMON!!!
Posted April 25, 2025
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo visit the Center! They're hilarious and totally unique but will totally eat your lunch if you look away for ONE SECOND!!
Posted April 18, 2025
Matt learns about the Champions of Magic from one of the Champions and gets his wallet stolen. Champions of Magic is the family-friendly HUGE magic show coming to the Winspear on Sunday 4/27. Don't miss it!
Posted April 11, 2025
Weston uses his love of Mean Girls (playing in the Winspear April 17 - 19) as an excuse to bust Paul's chops.
Posted April 4, 2025
This week we unveil a hard hitting, POWER NEWS opening and Matt reports on Comma, a DARKFIELD experience that is either about punctuation OR a mind-bending experience using sound and darkness to stretch your imagination beyond the limits. Tune in to find out which!
Posted March 28, 2025
An innocent slice of pie ventures into the Dallas Arts District to see her cousin play Pie Slice # 3 in WAITRESS at the Dallas Theater Center but get much more than she bargained for! Dum Dum DUMMMM!!!
Posted March 21, 2025
Step right up and play THIS OR THAT, the newest interactive game designed to help you decide what to do with your free time and entertainment dollar! Go to www.attpac.org to learn more!
Posted March 14, 2025
New Ticketing Supervisor Kennedy Helt frustrates Matt beyond reason while they run down the week including opening week for DARKFIELD!
Posted March 7, 2025
We generally don't want to admit that we're life-long learners because it's like admitting that we don't already know everything. But Ira Glass coming to the Winspear Opera House has us feeling downright erudite!
Posted February 28, 2025
Indique Dance's The Wedding is Fixed is going to be a BLAST! Indique's Ahila Gulasekaram teaches us a couple of Bollywood style dance moves to get ready for the "Wedding"!
Posted February 25, 2025
Wednesday night at the Majestic Theatre you can catch Dirty Dancing on the big screen with a LIVE band and singers playing the iconic score. That's one way to watch some Dirty Dancing. The other way is to watch this video...
Posted February 17, 2025
Our resident Gen Z whisperer and House Manager, Charles Moore, shows arts organizations how to engage with younger demographics. Spoiler Alert: He's a total rizzler.
Posted February 7, 2025
We're all still walking around this week like zombies wearing the Luka jerseys we JUST BOUGHT. If YOU need to escape to a world free of sports related heartache, see a show at one of the Center's Resident Companies!
Posted February 3, 2025
Ever been to a séance? Do you believe? Are you afraid of the dark? Now is your chance to find out. Join us for a spine-tingling immersive experience... SÉANCE!
Posted January 27, 2025
In honor of THE MAN IN BLAC - A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH coming to the Moody Performance Hall, a parody song ruins Matt's friendship with Marketing Specialist and Professional Musician, Nathan Mongol Wells.
Posted January 21, 2025
The Center's Assistant Technical Director and Resident Smooth Operator, Cedric Kimble-Thomas drops some Kenny G knowledge on us ahead of Mr. G's performance in the Majestic Theatre Wednesday the 22nd.
Posted January 10, 2025
This week we have one show! But it's a big one and guaranteed to give you all the feels. COME FROM AWAY presented by Broadway Dallas January 14 - 19 in the Winspear Opera House!
Posted January 3, 2025
Don't Griffen-Snore on the hilarious show, Potted Potter! Hedwig would tell you it's a HOOT!
Posted December 28, 2024
The first annual performance award for This Week at the AT&T Performing Arts Center has been announced! This prestigious award comes with a $0.00 cash prize! And the winner is...
Posted December 24, 2024
Yipee Ki Yay, ya'll! This week's slate of shows lead by a ONE-MAN version of DIE HARD is a delicious holiday potluck. Allow us to explain...
Posted December 16, 2024
This week the Winspear Opera House welcomes that Christmas classic... DEAR EVAN HANSEN!
Posted December 9, 2024
Cheap-O Roan and Charlie XYZ channel Hot To Go! for the Center. Plus, a star is born - Karl!
Posted December 2, 2024
What IS HilltopSecurities Camp Christmas, anyway? Well, Elvis is alive and well and is here to remove some of the mystery.
Posted November 25, 2024
Take a family camping trip this week! If you're looking for holiday family fun or some amazing photo ops you can't beat Camp Christmas!
Posted November 19, 2024
This Week we have a jolly, anonymous whistleblower spilling the beans on Pentagon UFO hunter Luis Elizondo and HilltopSecurities Camp Christmas (created by probably NHI, Lonnie Hanzon).
Posted November 11, 2024
This week Strauss Square is undergoing a HUGE transformation. HilltopSecurities Camp Christmas is being built and now on sale! Get a peek behind the scenes and learn a little about this wild new Christmasy experience.
Posted November 4, 2024
It has come to Lady Whistledown’s attention that Vitamin String Quartet’s arrival has set the Center alight with intrigue—one wonders what scandalous melodies may unfold this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Majestic Theatre!?
Posted October 28, 2024
Do you have that ONE wisecracker in the office!? They wear costumes and do funny stuff! Check out what it's like to BE that person! AND learn about all the shows happening this week along the way.
Posted October 21, 2024
TheressomuchhappeningattheCenterthisweekwe don'thavetimetobreathmustkeepgoingmustkeep goingfaster!!!
Posted October 12, 2024
This Week's guest- Dracula (Captain Milbourn) from the Dallas Theater Center's hilarious production of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors!
Posted October 7, 2024
Does Freddie Free have a deal for you! Zumba! Dance Theatre! Funny Draculas!
Posted September 30, 2024
Our 15th Anniversary free events start this week! Mickey Guyton and Latinidad and more! Plus we talk to Zumba superstar Martha Palacios about getting fit!
Posted September 23, 2024
This Week, Rick Steves' 2nd cousin, Rick Matts, leads us through a week of fun, fitness, and Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY.
Posted September 13, 2024
André 3000's mentor, André 2,999 stops by the show before 3000's performance in the Winspear Opera House on Saturday, September 21!
Posted September 9, 2024
Texas Ballet Theater's CINDERELLA is in the Winspear this week and inspires some "Cinderfella" shenanigans. Result? Bio-Hazard.
Posted August 30, 2024
Author Dav Pilkey's biggest fan takes over This Week to give the lowdown on Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical.
Posted August 26, 2024
The Center's Director of Education, Autumn Garrison give the deets on our 5th Annual Virtual Monologue Competition! Matt's gonna win that money!!!
Posted August 19, 2024
In honor of Classic Albums Live playing the Winspear, our Assistant General Manager, Weston Keifer ROCKS SO HARD everyone just wants him to GO AWAY.
Posted August 9, 2024
You won't BELIEVE what happens when we take this mega mic out to talk to people! Why do Tiny Mic when Mic could be so much more mega? Also, cool fun concert with PJ Morton at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas, Texas. Very sigma.
Posted August 2, 2024
Charles Moore gives a virtual tour of the Center's iconic performance venues. Our Gen Z intern hopped into the editing booth to make it "fire".
Posted July 26, 2024
With the WICKEDLY talented, one and only, IDINA MENZEL visiting the Majestic Theatre Wednesday night, the staff is desperate to stop Matt from creating another hilarious, viral blooper.
Posted July 19, 2024
This week we're celebrating our President and C.E.O, Warren Tranquada's 2nd anniversary with the Center with an in-depth profile of the man who steers our ship! He's great! Just PLEASE don't mention his monocles...
Posted July 13, 2024
Bring your blood to the Winspear Opera House Wednesday, July 17th, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and help the Center and Carter Blood Care save lives!
Posted July 8, 2024
Writer/Actor/Director Kelsey Milbourn reps their new play La Maupin: The French Abomination and then tries to kill Matt with a sword! La Maupin: The French Abomination is the latest Elevator Project show from Prism Movement Theater (LUCHA TEOTL).
Posted July 1, 2024
Here's hoping you have a fun and restful and safe and happy and funny and sparkly and explodey but not too explodey 4th of July.
Posted June 21, 2024
Dive deep into the human psyche as Matt searches for inspiration and then go see Gilberto Santa Rosa and plan to stay to dance the night away in Sammons Park with Studio 22.
Posted June 14, 2024
Our Vice President of Programming, Alex Malone gives a tour of the Winspear to a VERY special guest from Hauser's team. It's a cello. He gives a tour to a cello.
Posted June 7, 2024
We're a little distracted this week with our little Mavericks in the NBA FINALS! AT&TPAC = MFFL
Posted June 3, 2024
Matt chats with Jonathan Norton and Brandi Giles from the Dallas Theater Center about their Public Works program and upcoming production of The Little Mermaid. Chaos ensues...
Posted May 24, 2024
Get off of the INTERNET and get into your INNERNET at Sound Bath Meditation at the Center brought to you by The Movement Loft.
Posted May 18, 2024
Wednesday, May 22nd is Salsa night in Sammons Park! Learn some moves from Sergey and Michelle from Studio 22. If they can get Emmitt 10s on DANCING WITH THE STARS then they can turn YOUR moves up to 11! NOTE: They were unable to teach Matt Salsa. Not their fault.
Posted May 13, 2024
This week we are PUMPED about Dallas Black Dance Theatre's Spring Celebration at the Wyly Theatre. SO PUMPED!
Posted May 6, 2024
In honor of Hamilton playing in the Winspear Opera House through June 9th we compiled a David Letterman style "Top Ten" list, read by Center staff. Enjoy! And get some tickets!
Posted April 29, 2024
This Week gets a new host, noted public intellectual and tastemaker, Maxwell Saardivandt! Get to know Maxwell and hear all about Texas Ballet Theater's production of Beauty and the Beast at the Winspear Opera House.
Posted April 22, 2024
You ever had that one co-worker who just played drums all day in the cube next to yours? Then you can probably relate. AND you can probably find a ticket to Command Performance, D'JAM Jazz Stroll, José González, Earth Day Family Weekend, and more!
Posted April 15, 2024
If you see a giant M on your telephone, DO NOT PRESS IT. You could be Dialing M for Murder. Coincidentally, you can see Dial M for Murder at the Dallas Theater Center through April 28!
Posted April 10, 2024
Get ready this week for more shows than you can shake a total eclipse at. Herbie Hancock, Bernadette Peters and MORE!
Posted April 1, 2024
The Broadway tour of Chicago is here this week! On this episode you can catch our Publicity Manager, Aleira's VERY professional audition to join the tour.
Posted March 22, 2024
This week our Grants and Proposals Manager, Erica Lendl, talks about how special it is to see shows with her dad and we lear more about him than we thought we would!
Posted March 18, 2024
It's PNC Patio Sessions season again and our campus activations programmer, Amanda has her hands full with the super eager and very talented PNC Patio Sessions artists.
Posted March 8, 2024
Our Director of Production, Weston Keifer's all-time favorite musical is Annie and he doesn't CARE WHO KNOWS IT!
Posted March 4, 2024
We learn about Alan Cumming's upcoming performance while one of our long-time Box Office Managers, Blanca Carranza shows off her talents as a makeup artist!
Posted February 26, 2024
Matt has cute-but-mean Emily back on the show to talk about Texas Ballet Theater's BRILLIANTS. We notices she was a lot nicer to Matt this time...
Posted February 20, 2024
Bluey and Bingo and the gang are visiting the Majestic Theatre Feb. 23 - 25 for Bluey's Big Play, so Matt visited with a local Bluey expert to learn about all things Bluey! It doesn't go well...
Posted February 12, 2024
Meet some of the friendly faces at the Center as Matt tries to prank them with joke chocolates! Plus learn about Black Violin's visit to the Majestic Theatre, our 3rd Annual Ballet Folklorico Contest and more!
Posted February 5, 2024
This week our friends at the Dallas Opera present ELEKTRA so we took a dramatic deep dive into the myth of Elektra. Spoiler alert! It's super bloody and scary!
Posted January 29, 2024
Jonathan Norton, Dallas Theater Center's Playwright in Residence (that means they let him live there!!!), visits the show to talk about his new play I AM DELIVERED'T running February 2 - 18 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.
Posted January 22, 2024
Join us on this odyssey of discovery, as we peel back the layers that shroud the profound mystery of the "Dog Man". Is it a monster? Or is it a musical adaptation of Dav Pilkey's hilarious book series playing through January 28th at the Wyly Theatre that you can get tickets for at www.attpac.org???
Posted January 16, 2024
Make a resolution to see more shows! Plus check out the incredible results of Matt's skin care routine!
Posted January 7, 2024
In honor of Jagged Little Pill: the Musical playing at the Center Friday - Sunday, Matt takes a look back at 1995, the year Alanis Morissette released that groundbreaking album.
Posted December 22, 2023
Wishing you and yours happy holidays! In this episode, take a deep dive into the Center's Holiday Potluck! Nothing sad about this!
Posted December 19, 2023
Join our very own Charles Moore on a Big Budget Blockbuster Holiday Tour of the Winspear Opera House!
Posted December 12, 2023
The Cher Show inspired Matt to visit the USS Missouri to "Turn Back Time". Then somebody sinks his battleship!
Posted December 4, 2023
Box Office Manager Will Clark turns the tables on Matt during perhaps the worst prank call in history.
Posted November 28, 2023
Butternut, the Center’s Elf on the Shelf, hosts this week‘s episode in honor of Reliant Lights Your Holidays!
Posted November 20, 2023
This week we use subliminal messaging to celebrate Texas Ballet Theater's annual run of The Nutcracker in the Winspear Opera House AND the opening of Flora Cantina, the Center's new casual dining spot for before and after the show.
Posted November 13, 2023
With Kansas and Lake Street Dive in the Winspear Opera House we got noted local musician, Nathan Mongol Wells to play us some Kansas... sort of.
Posted October 30, 2023
We had to record this week's This Week before the end of the World Series. Did the Rangers win!?
Posted October 30, 2023
Matt tight ropes his way through this conversation with TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND Artistic Director, Charles Santos, to get the lowdown on the highly choreographed cirque from Les 7 Doigts' Passagers coming to the Center this weekend. Long story short: the show looks AWESOME and Matt ends up DEEPLY offended.
Posted October 16, 2023
Can't decide what to see this week? Pretend you're on Netflix's Love is Blind and find your show soul mate.
Posted September 25, 2023
We put out the call for talent and local talent said "We'll be there Wednesday at 6:30!" In honor of Open Mic Night at the Center on Wednesday some of our staff went to an open mic night to show off their very special skills
Posted September 18, 2023
Matt runs into members of local band Home By Hovercraft camping out in Sammons Park before their PNC Patio Session this week. Plus Latinidad, Switchfoot, Rocky Horror Show, MOMIX - ALICE and MORE!
Posted September 11, 2023
Matt's a little creepier than usual with Greg & Dana's Haunted Objects Live! - Chilling, True Tales from the Newkirk Museum of the Paranormal at the Texas Theatre this Friday. That PLUS TBT's Dracula, The Sixties Show, and Spiderman: Into the Universe in Concert! What a week!
Posted March 10, 2026
Check out this 14 part, 26 hour series about a single week at the AT&T Performing Arts Center! From Family programming, to Johnny Cash, to The Rocky Horror Show, there's something for everyone this week.
