Programming for All
The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts will offer an entirely new way to experience the arts through a wide range of programs, including more than 600 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 its five resident companies. The Dallas Opera and Texas Ballet Theater will perform in the Winspear Opera House, while the Dallas Theater Center, Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico will perform in the Wyly Theatre.
TITAS
Dallas’ non-profit presenter of the world’s finest dance, music and performing arts, TITAS will become the resident fine arts presenter at the Center. In its 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. TITAS performances will be presented in all of the Center’s venues.
Broadway
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.
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 Annette Strauss Artist Square featuring some of the best popular acts touring the world. The Strauss Square season will run from March to November.
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. The Brinker International Forum begins in September 2008 at The Meyerson Symphony Center and will move to the Winspear Opera House for the 2009-2010 season.