Programming for All
The AT&T Performing Arts Center will offer an entirely new way to experience the arts through a wide range of programs, including more than 500 performances per year from the world’s top cultural organizations. The Center’s four new venues will provide state-of-the-art performance space for Dallas’ renowned performing arts organizations. The Center will also produce original programming and present Broadway shows, concerts, lectures, films, theatre, dance and music in the Center’s new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Annette Strauss Artist Square and City Performance Hall.
The Center will provide state-of-the-art performance space for five resident companies: The Dallas Opera, Texas Ballet Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico.
Dallas’ non-profit presenter of the world’s finest dance, music and performing arts, TITAS, in association with the AT&T Performing Arts Center, will present eclectic and culturally diverse seasons of dance and music. The organization has previously presented renowned international artists and companies, including the American Ballet Theatre, Mark Morris Dance Company, Philip Glass, MOMIX, Pilobolus, France’s Lyon Opera Ballet, Korea’s Samulnori and Twyla Tharp.
The Center will present musical theatre and Broadway productions at the Winspear Opera House. Blockbuster musicals, world premieres and national tour launches will be part of the Center’s Broadway season. The Center recently engaged Shorenstein Hays Nederlander (SHN) as consultants to help bring the best Broadway productions to the Winspear Opera House. Based in San Francisco and New York, SHN is one of the most highly regarded theatrical entertainment companies in the nation, and is owned by veteran Broadway producers Carole Shorenstein Hayes and Robert Nederlander of the legendary Nederlander family Broadway theatre dynasty.
The Brinker International Forum is a series of lectures,
conversations and performances featuring internationally renowned
performing and visual artists. In collaboration with National Geographic Live!,
programs will also feature leading scientists and explorers.
A Larry Rozen Jazz Series- is a concert performance series
that includes educational and community outreach programs that are
designed to focus on the musical DNA that connects various communities
and people, while examining the African based roots of popular music in
the Americas. To learn more about this exciting new series, visit www.jazzroots.net.
Concerts and Festivals
Annette Strauss Artist Square, with lawn seating for up to 5,000, will feature community festivals and performances by local arts groups. The Center will also present concerts at Strauss Square featuring some of the best popular acts touring the world.