SPRING ART SEASON IS HERE

Hope springs eternal in these 8 Dallas-Fort Worth art openings in March

Hulktaur is one of the pieces on exhibit at Joshua Goode's solo show, "The Ruins of Burg Worth," at Fort Works Art.

Joshua Goode, Hulktaur, 2018

Spring may not officially be here yet, but we can tell it's on the way as art springs up all over.

In Fort Worth, the Fort Worth Art Dealer's Association (FWADA) welcomes the season with their annual Spring Gallery Night on March 25. FWADA's website features a list of member organizations you can check out for their planned events for the evening.

In Dallas, March could be called a warm-up month for Dallas Arts Month in April. Till then, here are eight must-see exhibitions to visit in March, in order of opening date.

"Artists of Texas Spring Fling"
Keller Town Hall, March 6-April 20
The work of 11 Texas artists will be on display in the Town Hall in Keller this month. Works span from watercolor to modern abstract, covering subject matter from animals to the outdoors and more. An artist reception will be held at 7 pm on March 16 at 1100 Bear Creek Parkway.

Rapheal Crump "B.O.R.N." Solo Exhibition
Atelier Gallery, March 11
It's only right that luxury apartments in the Dallas Arts District have their own galleries, right? At Atelier on Pearl Street, this month's exhibition is from Raphael Crump, who moved to Dallas in 2014. He classifies his work as urban contemporary art, and indeed, scenes from Dallas play a role in his "Beautiful Outside Right Now" show. Join the artist for a gallery walkthrough and talk at 11 am on Saturday, March 11 at Atelier.

"Modern Analog: Historical Processes in the Digital World"
Dallas Center for Photography, March 11-25
The photographs in this juried exhibition use "a wide array of analog and alternative processes, including pure analog from start to finish, film-captured to digital-print, Polaroids, alt processes, cyanotypes, digital negatives and photograms, and many more techniques that incorporate the unique traits and discipline of analog photography." Juror Lisa Elmaleh and several exhibiting photographers will be present at the opening reception on Saturday, March 11 at 6 pm.

"Parables of Mayhem"
Kirk Hopper Fine Art, March 11-April 15
Artist Shaun Roberts, an associate professor of art at Stephen F. Austin State University, creates self portraits and narrative works influenced by allegory, and the universal human condition. This exhibit features twenty of his paintings from the last six years and illustrate pandemonium, desperation, and the enduring human spirit's unvanquished capacity for redemption. The artist's reception will be held from 5 to 7 pm on Saturday, March 11.

"Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation"
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, March 12-July 9
This exhibition, which includes the work of seven contemporary Black artists, explores the legacy of the Civil War. With installations including sculpture, photography, and paper and textile fabrications, each work is an artist's response to a sculpture in the Carter's collection, The Freedman, by John Quincy Adams Ward.

"Talk of the Town: A Dallas Museum of Art Pop-Up Exhibition"
NorthPark Center, March 19-April 29
Featuring artworks from the Dallas Art Fair, and opening during Women's History Month, this group exhibit celebrates women using non-traditional portraiture. All of the works on display were acquired by the DMA in the last six years through the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program. Visit the free exhibit at NorthPark Center’s Level Two, between Nordstrom and Macy’s.

Joshua Goode: "The Ruins of Burg Worth"
Fort Works Art, March 25-April 29
In his first solo show at Fort Works Art, North Texas artist and curator Joshua Goode brings together created artifacts and remnants of the "ancient" past with performance art in an interactive installation. In the exhibit, Fort Worth history is reimagined and set in a fortress at Eagle Mountain.

Goode intertwines his research of local culture and background in archaeology into his creations of sarcophagi and other items reminiscent of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. With works featuring extinct animals, objects and artifacts, he aims to expose “the malleability of our past, present, and future” and the ease at which history can be distorted. An opening reception will be held on Gallery Night, March 25, from 12-9 pm.

"We are all Homeless"
Art on Main, March 26-April 9
For more than 30 years, SMU Meadows School for the Arts professor Willie Baronet has been purchasing signs from people experiencing homelessness. The installations Baronet creates from them help viewers "explore the humanity of the signs, and questions regarding the nature of home, compassion, and what it means to truly see each other." Art on Main will host an artist reception from 3-5 pm Sunday, March 26 with an accompany event from 2-4 pm. to help put together Blessing Bags to be distributed to people in Dallas experiencing homelessness.

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Theater News

Dallas' Kitchen Dog Theater unveils powerful 2026-2027 season lineup

Photo by Cameron Cobb

Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas will put on three mainstage productions for their 2026-2027 season.

Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas has revealed the lineup for the 2026-2027 season, featuring a slate of plays that boasts power players like kings, prime ministers, space force commanders, and would-be presidents.

According to a release, the theater company's 36th season — their "most powerful yet" — will consist of three mainstage productions at its new permanent home in the Design District, as well as the annual New Works Festival, featuring a readings series and the 26th annual D-PAC PUP (Playwrights Under Progress) Fest.

The season will start with The Absentee by Julia Doolittle, running September 10-October 4, 2026. The play was the winner of the 2019-2020 Woodward/Newman Drama Award.

Far out in the Milky Way, “Beacons” serve as lighthouses for warping spaceships around the galaxy. When a U.S. Space Force ship explodes in the galaxy, the Operator finds herself alone in deep space, with only her ship’s AI for companionship. That is, until a persistent canvasser calls, desperate to convince her to vote absentee in the 2088 election.

As the Operator waits for the clean up to be over, she finds she has to come to terms with her isolation, grief, and her political voice.

The season's second production comes four months later, with Equivocation by Bill Cain, running February 4-28, 2027. In 1605 England, a terrorist plots to assassinate King James I and blow Parliament to kingdom come. Shagspeare (after a contemporary spelling of the Bard's name) is commissioned by the prime minister, to write the “true historie” of the plot. And it must have witches — the king wants witches.

But as Shag and the acting company of the Globe investigate the plot, they discover that the king's version of the story might, in fact, be a coverup. Shag and his actors are confronted with the ultimate moral and artistic dilemma. Speak truth to power and perhaps lose their heads? Or take the money and lie? Is there a third option? Equivocation?

A high-stakes political thriller with contemporary resonances, Equivocation gallops from the great Globe to the Tower of London to the halls of Parliament to the heart of Judith, Shag's younger daughter, who finds herself unexpectedly at the very heart of the political, dramatic and — ultimately — human mystery.

The final mainstage production of the season comes at the 2027 New Works Festival with Black Republican by KDT Artistic Company Member Jamal Gibran Sterling, running June 3-27, 2027.

Originally featured as a Staged Reading in the 2026 New Works Festival, the ambitious first play by Sterling centers on a Black Republican candidate on the national stage who finds his campaign threatened by an activist who challenges everything he claims to stand for. Their battle exposes uncomfortable truths about race, politics, and the stories we tell ourselves.

In addition to Black Republican, the 2027 New Works Festival will showcase four staged readings of some of the newest and most exciting Texas-based playwrights. Each reading will feature accomplished Dallas-Fort Worth actors and directors to highlight the breadth of talent in the area.

The final part of the festival is D-PAC PUP (Playwrights Under Progress) Fest, featuring six staged readings of jury-selected plays written by Dallas-Fort Worth high school students and featuring student actors directed by area professionals. PUP Fest is the culmination of Dallas Playwriting Arts Collective (D-PAC), a partnership with Dallas ISD and Junior Players.

Kitchen Dog Theater offers two season subscription packages for their inaugural season in their new facility. The Kitchen Dog package includes a ticket to all three mainstage productions for any performance date for $90+ $8 fees for adults and $75 +$8 fees for students and seniors (ages 65+). The Saver Dog package includes a ticket to all three mainstage productions for Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays only. It is $60 + $8 fees for adults and $45 + $8 fees for students and seniors.

Both packages grant full access to the Staged Reading Series and PUP Fest. Subscribers also receive premium reserved seating for in-person performances, as well as subscriber-only discounts on additional single tickets, 2026 special events, and KDT merchandise.

Subscription packages are on sale now, and single tickets for each show will go on sale on Monday, August 24, at kitchendogtheater.org.

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