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    Season Announcement

    Dallas Theater Center tentatively schedules 2020-21 season of new and beloved works

    Lindsey Wilson
    Apr 17, 2020 | 4:45 pm
    Tiny Beautiful Things Off-Broadway at the Public
    Playwright Nia Vardalos in the Off-Broadway production of Tiny Beautiful Things.
    Photo by Joan Marcus

    With American Mariachi having been streamed online and Pipeline suspended due to coronavirus concerns, Dallas Theater Center is still nevertheless forging ahead with its next season. There's one catch though: no dates yet.

    Patrons are encouraged to buy 2020-21 season subscriptions — obviously single tickets are not on sale — and coordinate their chosen performances with the box office once dates are announced.

    "The recent cancellation of live arts and entertainment performances due to public health concerns is creating very real financial consequences for the national arts community," reads a statement on DTC's website. "Purchasing your subscription now supports Dallas Theater Center during these uncertain times, and will help us to mitigate losses and ensure the future of the arts here at home, in Dallas."

    Directed by Kevin Moriarty, The Sound of Music is hopefully first. A country divided. A family paralyzed by loss. A young woman afraid to love. Dallas Theater Center boldly re-examines one of the most beloved musical theater classics ever written.

    Screenwriter and actor Nia Vardalos is the scribe behind the stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's book Tiny Beautiful Things, which was co-conceived by Vardalos, Marshall Heyman, and Thomas Kail (you know him as the director of Hamilton). It follows Sugar, an online advice columnist who uses her personal experiences to help the real-life readers who pour their hearts out to her. Rich with humor, insight, compassion — and absolute honesty — Tiny Beautiful Things is about reaching when you’re stuck, healing when you’re broken, and finding the courage to take on the questions that have no answers. Joel Ferrell directs.

    Written by Vichet Chum and directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene (another Hamilton director, who helmed the national tour), High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest is a world premiere and co-production with Houston's Alley Theatre. It’s senior year in Carrollton, and Riverside High School’s competitive theater troupe is climbing back to the top from last year’s unprecedented loss. Dara is trying to rally his teammates, while new kid Paul disrupts Dara’s complete understanding of himself and his small-town suburban life. When coaches Dirkson and Blow make a bold choice for the one-act play competition and the community takes issue, friends and rivals duke it out and find themselves.

    You can’t choose your neighbors. In Native Gardens, a brilliant new comedy by Karen Zacarías, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbecue for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class, and privilege.

    A co-production with Stage West, What to Send Up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris is a play, a ritual, and a home-going celebration that bears witness to the physical and spiritual deaths of black people as a result of racist violence. Meant to disrupt the pervasiveness of anti-blackness and acknowledge the resilience of black people throughout history, this groundbreaking play blurs the boundaries between actors and audiences, offering a space for catharsis, discussion, reflection, and healing. Directed by Akin Babatunde.

    A return of DTC's annual production of A Christmas Carol is a season add-on, as is a world premiere re-imagining of Designing Women, written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. It’s 2020, and Julia, Suzanne, Mary Jo, and Charlene are partners in the Atlanta-based interior design firm, Sugarbaker’s. But with the firm in crisis, they’re on the verge of a radical decision to sell the business and separate. A co-production with theaterSquared and Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

    Season tickets can be purchased online at www.DallasTheaterCenter.org or by calling 214-522-8499.

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    Stepping Down

    Dallas Arts District director Lily Cabatu Weiss to retire after 9 years

    Lindsey Wilson
    Oct 30, 2025 | 1:14 pm
    Lily Cabatu Weiss
    Photo by Brian Guilliaux
    Lily Cabatu Weiss

    Veteran arts executive Lily Cabatu Weiss, who has led the Dallas Arts District since 2016, announced she will step down from her role as executive director on January 30, 2026, marking the end of a nearly decade-long tenure that transformed the nation’s largest urban cultural district.

    In a statement, Weiss — a former dancer, educator, and arts advocate — says that leading the district has been a career highlight.

    “To be able to spend so much time supporting and promoting our city’s artists, this district, its premier arts and cultural institutions, parks, commercial and retail interests, historic churches, residents, an award-winning high school, and all of the neighborhood stakeholders — being this community’s champion has been a blessing and an honor,” Weiss says.

    During her nine years at the helm, Weiss guided the Dallas Arts District through major milestones and challenges. She helped elevate it as a premier tourism destination, was a contributor to the 2018 Dallas Cultural Plan, and oversaw creation of the Connect Master Plan — the district’s first comprehensive plan in nearly 40 years — which included infrastructure improvements such as currently ongoing sidewalk replacements and public art installations.

    She also enhanced the district’s branding and created the popular Signature Block Party Series, a set of free, family-friendly events featuring regional and international artists that now draw more than 50,000 visitors.

    Weiss led the community through the financial difficulties of the COVID-19 pandemic and celebrated national recognition when USA Today readers ranked the Dallas Arts District the No. 1 arts district in the United States in both 2024 and 2025.

    “Lily Weiss has led the Dallas Arts District through transformational change over the past nine years,” says Jill Magnuson, Dallas Arts District board chair. “By rolling up her sleeves and deeply engaging the neighborhood’s many diverse interests, we’ve been able to weather crises, enjoy dynamic growth and position the district for success in the future.”

    Beyond her local leadership, Weiss has been an active advocate for the arts at city, state, and national levels.

    She serves on the steering committee for the Dallas Area Cultural Advocacy Coalition, helping secure and expand City of Dallas funding for the arts and arts bond programs. At the state level, she serves on the board of Texans for the Arts, where she has pushed for increased funding for the Texas Commission on the Arts, including Cultural District Grants that benefit smaller resident organizations.

    Weiss has represented the Dallas Arts District globally through the Global Cultural District Network, of which Dallas is a founding member.

    Her career in the district began in 1978, when she joined the faculty of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, eventually becoming chair of its dance department and artistic director. She retired from teaching in 2016 to lead the Dallas Arts District organization.

    Looking ahead, Magnuson will step in as interim executive director on January 30, 2026, after concluding her term as board chair. AT&T Performing Arts Center president and CEO Warren Tranquada will become the new board chair on November 1 and will oversee the search for Weiss’s permanent successor early next year.

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