Posted December 24, 2024
This Week: Die Hard Holiday Potluck Wienie Crockpot Blues
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...
This Week at the AT&T Performing Arts Center
Posted December 16, 2024
This Week: Dear Evan Santa
This week the Winspear Opera House welcomes that Christmas classic... DEAR EVAN HANSEN!
Posted December 9, 2024
This Week: Chappell Roan Tribute dot org
Cheap-O Roan and Charlie XYZ channel Hot To Go! for the Center. Plus, a star is born - Karl!
Posted December 2, 2024
This Week: Another Elvis Christmas Special
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
This Week: A Family Camping Trip!
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: Whistleblowers Everywhere
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: Let's Go Camping!
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
This Week: Lady Whistledown's Latest Scandal Sheet
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
This Week: POV - You're the Funny Guy at the Office
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
THIS WEEK: Too Much, Too Furious
TheressomuchhappeningattheCenterthisweekwe don'thavetimetobreathmustkeepgoingmustkeep goingfaster!!!
Posted October 12, 2024
This Week: Dracula in the House
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
This Week: Let's Make a Deal!
Does Freddie Free have a deal for you! Zumba! Dance Theatre! Funny Draculas!
Posted September 30, 2024
This Week: Everybody Zumba Now!
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: Talkin' Sondheim with Rick Matts
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
This Week: André 2,999
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
This Week: Cinderfella
Texas Ballet Theater's CINDERELLA is in the Winspear this week and inspires some "Cinderfella" shenanigans. Result? Bio-Hazard.
Posted August 30, 2024
This Week: Cat Kid Comic Kid ROASTS Dad
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
This Week: Virtual Monologue Competition
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
This Week: Classic Rock Weston
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
This Week: It's Mega Mic Monday!
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
This Week: We Let Our Gen Z Intern Edit My Virtual Tour of the Center
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
This Week: Adele Dazeem plays the Marjastic Thimble Worgsday Nike
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: Warren's 2nd Anniversary at the Center
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
This Week: Blood Drive with Carter Blood Care & Dracula
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
This Week: A Duel for the Ages... NOT!
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
This Week: 4th of July Spectacular!!
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
This Week: Enter Imaginationland
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
This Week: The Winspear Opera House through the eyes of a cello
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
This Week: GOOOOO MAVS!!!!!!!!!!
We're a little distracted this week with our little Mavericks in the NBA FINALS! AT&TPAC = MFFL
Posted June 3, 2024
This Week: Auditioning for DTC's THE LITTLE MERMAID
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
This Week: Find YOUR CENTER at THE CENTER
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
This Week: SALSA Night at the Center!
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: SPRING CELEBRATION!!
This week we are PUMPED about Dallas Black Dance Theatre's Spring Celebration at the Wyly Theatre. SO PUMPED!
Posted May 6, 2024
This Week: Top Ten Alexander Hamilton 'Fun Facts'
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: Beauty and the New Host
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
This Week: Don't Sit Next To Alan
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
This Week: Dial M for Matt... er... Murder
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
This Week: Total Eclipse of the Face
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
This Week: SheCago or Aleira's Big Break
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: Seeing Herb Alpert with Dear Old, Weird Dad
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
This Week: Keep the PNC Patio Sessions on the Patio
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
This Week: We love Annie but Weston REALLY Loves Annie
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
This Week: Alan Cumming + A Makeover
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
This Week: Local 4-year old Ballet Expert
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
This Week: Local Bluey Expert
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
This Week: Valentine's Prank + Black Violin in the Majestic Theatre
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: The Myth of Elektra
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
This Week: Dallas Theater Center's I AM DELIVERED'T
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
This Week: In Search of... the "Dog Man"
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
This Week: Moisturize!!!
Make a resolution to see more shows! Plus check out the incredible results of Matt's skin care routine!
Posted January 7, 2024
This Week: Jagged Little 1995
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
This Week | Happy Holidays?!
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
This Week: Holiday Tours the Action Movie!
Join our very own Charles Moore on a Big Budget Blockbuster Holiday Tour of the Winspear Opera House!
Posted December 12, 2023
This Week: You Sank Cher's Battleship!
The Cher Show inspired Matt to visit the USS Missouri to "Turn Back Time". Then somebody sinks his battleship!
Posted December 4, 2023
This Week: Prank Calling the Center
Box Office Manager Will Clark turns the tables on Matt during perhaps the worst prank call in history.
Posted November 28, 2023
This Week: Elf on the Shelf
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: Subliminal Tacos
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
This Week: Carry on Wayward Nathan
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
This Week: Les 7 Doigts
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 30, 2023
This Week: Texas Rangers are CHAMPS?!?
We had to record this week's This Week before the end of the World Series. Did the Rangers win!?
Posted October 16, 2023
This Week: Love is Blind
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
This Week: Open Mic!
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
This Week: Home by Hovercraft
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
This Week: Haunted Objects LIVE!
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 December 21, 2024
This Week: Ken Burns Ken Burnses the Center's Week
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.