Saturday 03.16
Bruce Wood Dance welcomes Houston’s METdance for all-Texas show
Bruce Wood Dance is justly proud of its Texas roots; its eponymous founder was a boot-wearing cowboy at heart, so for this one-night-only concert, the company revives his ebullient Lovett! (set to Lyle’s music) as well as Red, plus a world premiere works from choreographer Bridget L. Moore called Following Echoes that pairs BWD with Houston’s METdance for a program called Lone Stars.
DEETS: Moody Performance Hall,
2520 Flora St. 8 p.m.
BruceWoodDance.org.
Friday 03.09 — Saturday 03.17
Dallas Opera goes super modern with unusual ‘Sunken Garden’
When the Dallas Opera announced last year that this season would include Michel Van Der Aa’s controversial contemporary opera Sunken Garden, it immediately become the “what tha—?” moment of the artistic season … and a hard sell. But that just means if could be the most exciting opera you’ll likely see. A mystery couched in deep psychological dream imagery, the plot concerns a filmmaker who discovers a garden — a secret path between this world and the afterlife. But is it real? The production employs 3D technology and video imaging, meaning it’s unlike anything you’ve ever associated with opera before. Van Der Aa himself is the stage director.
DEETS: Winspear Opera House,
2403 Flora St.
DallasOpera.org.
Friday 03.09 — Sunday 04.01
DTC’s production of LBJ play ‘The Great Society’ opens for limited run
You went All the Way way two years ago; it’s time you enter The Great Society. Yes, Robert Schenkkan’s acclaimed LBJ bio All the Way came to Dallas courtesy of a pairing of the Dallas Theater Center and Houston’s Alley Theatre. Now part 2 of the political work, The Great Society, returns for a limited engagement, once again directed by Kevin Moriarty and starring members of both companies. (In previews through March 12.)
DEETS: Wyly Theatre,
2400 Flora St.
DallasTheaterCenter.org.