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    Art In Bloom

    2 favorite spring festivals brings beats and brushstrokes to Richardson

    CultureMap Create
    Apr 30, 2025 | 12:00 pm
    Cottonwood Art Festival

    Bring the whole family to this free event.

    Photo courtesy of Cottonwood Art Festival

    Add two festivals to the list of things blooming in Richardson each spring: Cottonwood Art Festival and Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival.

    It’s the 56th year for Cottonwood Art Festival (May 3-4) and the 33rd for Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival (May 16-18). Here’s what you need to know about both:

    Cottonwood Art Festival

    What to expect: No matter your art personality type, you’ll find something to love amid more than 200 global artists’ juried work, spanning paintings and sculpture to ceramics, jewelry, fiber art, fine glass, woodwork, mixed media, and photography.

    Make sure to look for this year's featured artist, Elissa Brown, an imaginative illustrator and storyteller whose whimsical works are equal parts heart and humor.

    Her current studio is located outside Kansas City, Missouri, but this May, she returns “home” to Texas to share her newest creations at Cottonwood. Brown’s artistic brand, The Freckled Army, pays tribute to her grandmother, whose red hair and freckles she inherited.

    She builds layered paper environments and woodcut characters that blend fantastical storytelling with what she calls “absurd narratives.” Brown's theatrical background in set design shines through in her work, which often feels like a scene from a storybook springing to life.

    There’s also live music across two stages along with an arts-and-crafts area for the kiddos and plenty of food and drink for all on tap.

    Where: Cottonwood Park, 1321 W. Belt Line Rd.

    When: Saturday, May 3, 10 am-7 pm; Sunday, May 4, 10 am-5 pm.

    Tickets: Admission and parking are both free, with shuttles running continuously between the park and the Richardson High School football stadium lot.

    History lesson: Celebrating 56 years, the award-winning Cottonwood Art Festival is a twice-yearly juried show that has become a signature art event in the community and beyond. The festival also provides innovative outreach programs for students, with the goal of broadening interest in visual arts and bringing the art world into classrooms.

    More details: CottonwoodArtFestival.com

    Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival

    What to expect: With six stages and 100-plus performers, including Young the Giant, NEEDTOBREATHE, The Revivalists, Cold War Kids, Sugar Ray, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, and more, your listening schedule will be packed at this fest.

    Beyond the stages, the Prosperity Bank Marketplace is a one-stop-shop for local and regional accessories, art, home decor, apparel, and more.

    There’s also art guitar auction, songwriter competition, and craft beer garden and Chloe wine garden. Plus, look for Wildflower! Kids, a family-fun zone with art, games, informative activities, and kid-friendly tunes.

    Where: Galatyn Park Urban Center, located at Galatyn Parkway and U.S. 75.

    When: Friday, May 16, 6 -11:30 pm; Saturday, May 17, noon-11:30 pm; Sunday, May 18, noon-6 pm.

    Tickets: Friday and Saturday are $30 online ($45 at the gate), Sunday is $15 online ($25 at the gate), and kids 12 and under are free. Richardson residents can score tickets for only $15.

    A three-day pass is $65, but the popular Friends of the Festival VIP package is already sold out. New this year is the single-day VIP ticket for $50, which grants you all the amenities of general admission plus access to preferred VIP seating at Methodist Richardson Medical Center Stage, complimentary food and beverages (including beer and wine), shade and relaxed seating in the VIP Hospitality Lounge, and one VIP parking pass. As of this writing, only Sunday remains for these new single-day VIP tickets.

    Parking: Complimentary parking will be available within the nearby surrounding area. Festival-goers are encouraged to take advantage of the DART Red Line light rail, which stops at the Galatyn Park Station, located immediately adjacent to the west side of the festival grounds.

    History lesson: Wildflower! began as a small community gathering in 1993 and has since become one of the most popular cultural events in North Texas, with tens of thousands of fans showing up for their favorite artists.

    More details: WildflowerFestival.com

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    Season announcement

    Mystic Pizza's Dallas premiere leads new AT&T PAC Broadway season

    Alex Bentley
    Apr 10, 2026 | 1:28 pm
    Mystic Pizza: A New Musical
    Photo courtesy of Lively McCabe Entertainment
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    The 2026-2027 Broadway at the Center season at Dallas' AT&T Performing Arts Center will feature a mixture of new and returning shows, including several recent Tony Award-nominated productions.

    According to a release, the main season will consist of five musicals: Mystic Pizza: A New Musical, Shucked, Beetlejuice, The Who’s Tommy, and The Wiz. All productions take place at Winspear Opera House in downtown Dallas.

    They will be joined by two previously-announced co-productions with Broadway Dallas - The Notebook and Hadestown - as well as TITAS/Dance Unbound co-production, Dance Me - The Music of Leonard Cohen.

    First up will be Dance Me - The Music of Leonard Cohen, a creation inspired by the work of famed Montreal-based poet, artist, and songwriter Leonard Cohen, performed by Ballet Jazz Montreal.

    The homage to the iconic artist evokes the grand cycles of existence in five seasons, as described in Cohen’s deeply reflective music and poems. There will be performances on September 18 and 19, 2026.

    The first theater production will be Mystic Pizza: A New Musical, making its Dallas premiere. It is based on the 1988 rom-com that tells the story of three working-class girls who navigate the complexities of life, love, and family in a small-town pizza joint.

    The score features megahits of the '80s and '90s, including songs originally recorded by Melissa Etheridge, Cyndi Lauper, John Cougar Mellencamp, and more. It will run November 20-22, 2026.

    After the Broadway Dallas co-production of The Notebook, running January 12-24, 2027, the season picks up again with the return of Shucked, which played at the Music Hall at Fair Park in December 2024.

    In the Tony Award-winning comedy, the corn that protects a small community starts to die. The town needs answers. But who will dare to venture beyond the borders of Cob County?

    The Broadway hit, running March 19-21, 2027 is about an unlikely hero, an unscrupulous con artist, and a battle for the heart and soil of a small town.

    Hadestown will follow shortly thereafter, running March 30-April 4, 2027, before the third Broadway Dallas co-production of the season, Beetlejuice, running April 28-May 2, 2027.

    The musical, which previously came to Dallas in early 2024, is based on Tim Burton’s 1988 film and tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes.

    June 2027 will bring the final two productions of the season, The Who’s Tommy (running June 3-5) and The Wiz (running June 10-13).

    The Who's 1969 rock opera is about the young Tommy Walker whose innate knack for pinball catapults him from reticent adolescent to celebrity savior. It features the anthems “I’m Free,” “See Me, Feel Me,” “Sensation,” and “Pinball Wizard.”

    The Wiz, which just came to Dallas in September 2025, is a groundbreaking twist on The Wizard of Oz that features soul, gospel, rock, and '70s funk that puts Dorothy’s journey to find her place in a contemporary world.

    “This season is designed to welcome both longtime subscribers and new audiences with a lineup that celebrates the full range of Broadway - from high-energy crowd pleasers and reimagined classics to bold contemporary storytelling,” said Warren Tranquada, CEO and President of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, in a statement.

    For the first time in their partnership with Broadway Dallas, Broadway at the Center subscribers will enjoy early access and full subscriber benefits for Beetlejuice through May 1.

    After May 1, all ticket purchases, customer service questions, and support for Beetlejuice will be handled directly by Broadway Dallas.

    The Center offers a flexible subscription package that allows patrons to choose four or five shows from the season lineup, with the option to add or remove shows by contacting the box office directly.

    Subscription package prices range from $150-$660, and sales begin on Monday, April 13, 2026. Packages may be purchased by phone at 214-880-0202, or online at attpac.org/broadway.

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