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The 25 Things You Must Do In Dallas This September

Arcade Fire, a RoboCop anniversary screening at Dallas City Hall, and so much more to do.
By The Event Listings Committee |
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Arcade Fire
Sept. 28, 6 pm
American Airlines Center
Arcade Fire has always had ambitions beyond its quirky indie rock roots. Too oddball to really become blue collar heroes, these theater geeks with guitars nevertheless have a Springsteen-esque grip on the earnest anthem, the youthful rocker, the wistful phones-in-the-air singalong. The Grammy-winning The Suburbs, in 2011, earned them mainstream interest, while 2013’s jittery, rhythmic Refkletor showed they still had the power to surprise. With this year’s Everything Now, a nervy and electrifying statement on these times of ours that counts as Arcade Fire’s grandest gesture yet, the biggest little band in the world is ready to become the biggest band in the world.

The Assassin’s Assassin: A Case Study of the Jack Ruby Trial
Sept. 27, 6 pm
The Sixth Floor Museum
Just-released papers from the trial of the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, discussed here by two legal experts, prove there’s always more to discover in the fallout of the events of Nov. 22, 1963.

Ruff Ryders
Sept. 16, 6:30 pm
American Airlines Center
It’s been 20 years since DMX first stopped, dropped, shut them down, and opened up shop, so the rapper’s hitting the road with Eve, Swizz Beats, and more to mark the anniversary.

Miller, Mississippi
Aug. 30–Oct. 1
Studio Theatre at the Wyly
In this world premiere play, change is coming, whether or not one Southern family caught up in the social upheavals of the 1960s and ‘70s wants to admit it.

Janet Jackson
Sept. 14, 6:30 pm
American Airlines Center
“Miss Jackson” if you’re nasty, “Mom” if you’re the 51-year-old singer’s new child. Everyone else try to think of something pithy for “one of our finest living pop stars.”

Dallas Theater Center’s Hair
Sept. 22–Oct. 22
Wyly Theatre
It is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. The drugs are great, the love is free, and The Man is a beatable foe in DTC’s production of the hit hippie musical.

Depeche Mode
Sept. 22, 7:30 pm
Starplex Pavilion
Johnny Cash, Tori Amos, and Marilyn Manson are among the artists to have covered Depeche Mode, proof that the band’s moody electronic songs number among pop music’s most original.

Dallas Pride Parade & Festival
Sept. 16 & 17
Reverchon Park & Cedar Springs Blvd.
The annual celebration of Dallas’ LGBTQ community features events scattered throughout the month, but the main event(s) are the festival Saturday at Reverchon Park, followed by the parade down Cedar Springs Boulevard on Sunday. You’ll need tickets for the festival, but not for the parade.

so go the ghosts of mexico, part two
Sept. 9–Oct. 1
Undermain Theatre
A cast of women play the swaggering narcotraficantes in this world premiere, a simmering exploration of the violence of the patriarchy and the drug wars along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Mindamora Rocha, Stephanie Cleghorn Jasso, Gigi Cervantes, and Barbie Bernier in so go the ghosts of mexico, part two. Photo by Katherine Owens.

Adding Machine: A Musical
Sept. 28–Oct. 22
Theatre Three
Workforce anxiety about automation is nothing new. Take Mr. Zero, flung into a murderous and musical spiritual quest after his job is taken by a mechanical computer in 1923.

Jason Isbell
Sept. 23, 7 pm
The Bomb Factory
The virtuosic singer-songwriter got sober, he got hitched, and on his latest album, The Nashville Sound, he gets woke: Listen to “White Man’s World,” a stunningly self-aware protest song about Isbell’s uniquely American privilege.

Shakespeare Dallas: Titus Andronicus
Sept. 20–30
Samuell-Grand Amphitheater
Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, a gory treat featuring some of the Bard’s tastiest language, is littered with more dismembered body parts than are in Hannibal Lecter’s refrigerator.

Fun Home
Sept. 13–24
Winspear Opera House
A father and a daughter, mysteries unto themselves and to each other, try to figure all of it out in this musical, the winner of five Tony awards, including the big one.

TITAS: Ballet Hispanico
Sept. 15 & 16
Winspear Opera House
The diversity of Latin American culture gives Ballet Hispanico plenty to work with, as the company incorporates styles and forms from close to a dozen countries and hundreds of years of dance.

Zubaran: Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Paintings from Auckland Castle
Sept. 17–Jan. 7
Meadows Museum
The 17th century Spanish painter’s portraits depicting the fathers of the tribes of Israel, an important series showcasing Zubaran’s ecstatic style, make their first ever appearance in the U.S.

The War on Drugs
Sept. 28, 7 pm
The Bomb Factory
It ain’t broke, but this Philadelphia rock outfit does seem compelled to tweak its favorite classic rock, breaking new ground mainly through its bleary-eyed studio experimentation.

Caught on Paper
Sept. 23–Feb. 11
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Watercolors, prints, postcards, and other works on paper capture the action-packed outdoors, eschewing serene pastoral scenes for the wonder of nature in motion.

Ken Follett
Sept. 14, 7:30 pm
First United Methodist Church of Dallas
The popular novelist, the author of historical thrillers and thrilling histories, talks about his latest book, a James Bond-inspired spy story set in 16th century England.

Big Thief
Sept. 30, 8 pm
Three Links
Songwriter Adrianne Lenkers tears open her chest to bare her heart on each one of Big Thief’s songs, subtly devastating three-minute epics about love, life, and the loss of both.

La La Land in Concert
Sept. 1 & 2
Meyerson Symphony Center
The savior of movie musicals is back on the big screen, with the Dallas Symphony lending some orchestral oomph to Ryan Gosling’s jazz purism and Emma Stone’s Hollywood dreams.

Performance Screening with Peal Earl and more
Sept. 1, 9 pm
The Texas Theatre
A screening of the debauched classic starring Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg is followed by a live show behind the screen, with performers including Pearl Earl and George Quartz.

TBAAL’s Riverfront Jazz Festival
Sept. 1–3
Texas Horse Park
Erykah Badu is among the performers booked to play this inaugural festival, which puts a particular emphasis on R&B and jazz performers in Dallas.

Dallas Chocolate Festival
Sept. 8–10
Fashion Industry Gallery
Dozens of chocolate makers from Texas and other states are gathering for this decadent event. Sample and buy top-of-the-line chocolates while learning everything there is to know about the bean-to-bar process.

RoboCop with Peter Weller
Sept. 10, 7 pm
Dallas City Hall
For the 30th anniversary of the release of Paul Verhoeven’s prescient sci-fi classic, which cast Dallas as a dilapidated dystopian Detroit, Alamo Drafthouse is screening the film at City Hall, the evil corporation’s HQ in the film. Peter Weller, RoboCop himself, will be on site for a Q&A, while the plaza is stocked with bars and photo ops.

!!! & Algiers
Sept. 24, 7 pm
Three Links
!!! (pronounce it “chk chk chk”) are fun and fine for some hopped-up groovy dance funk, but we’re more interested in the opening act for this one. Algiers, an aggressive and politically righteous act that filters old Northern soul through industrial punk sounds, blew us away the last time the group was in town.

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