Theater Critic Picks

Dallas theaters light up November with fresh plays and holiday hits

Corbin Drew Ross and Nolan White in 'The Outsiders' North American tour.

Photo by Matthew Murphy

We're well into November, and for Dallas theater buffs, that means three don't-miss shows that all end this week. From there, it's a segue to the beginning of holiday season with Christmas-themed productions starting to surface in the last half of the month.

Here are 10 shows appearing in Dallas-Fort Worth theaters in November, listed in order of start date:

Libro de Los Sueños Olvidados
Ochre House Theater, through November 13
Written and directed by artistic director Matthew Posey, and in collaboration with the 2025 Dallas Flamenco Festival, this fantasy Flamenco play is about two homely sisters who steal an enchanted book of spells called The Book of Forgotten Dreams to cast a spell that will make them glamorous movie stars. Instead, they conjure a fantasy world of magical creatures, witches, and the Moon King and Queen, who own The Book of Forgotten Dreams.

Job
Teatro Dallas, through November 16
This psychological thriller zooms in on two careerists of different generations, genders, and political paradigms to examine what it means to be a citizen of the internet and our obligation to help the people who need it most.

The Outsiders
Broadway Dallas, through November 16
Winner of the 2024 Tony Award for Best Musical, The Outsiders is adapted from S.E. Hinton's seminal novel and Francis Ford Coppola's iconic film. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend Johnny Cade, and their Greaser family of ‘outsiders’ battle with their affluent rivals, the Socs. Look out for Dallas' own 2023 HSMTA winner, Corbin Drew Ross, who plays Ponyboy's brother, Sodapop.

The Voices of Donny Hathaway
Jubilee Theatre, through November 30
This powerful play, written by Robert King Jr., brings to life the music, struggles, and brilliance of an artist whose voice defined a generation. Through a rich tapestry of Hathaway’s most beloved songs, the story explores the beauty of his genius alongside the challenges he faced, painting an intimate portrait of a man whose art continues to inspire.

Action
Undermain Theatre, through December 7
Four friends seek solace in each other's company by sharing a house over the Christmas holidays after a catastrophic event has thrown the world into chaos. This is considered to be among Sam Shepard’s most important works, and has been compared to the work of Samuel Beckett.

& Juliet
Broadway at the Bass, November 12-16
& Juliet flips the script on the greatest love story ever told and asks: What would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo? Her new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name, including “Since U Been Gone‚” “Roar,” “Baby One More Time,” “Larger Than Life‚” “That’s The Way It Is,“ and “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” Look out for Dallas' own multi-year HSMTA winner — and 2025 national winner — Fabiola Caraballo Quijada as Juliet.

Goblin Market
Theatre Three, November 13-December 7
What lived under your bed when you were a kid? This original musical probes into the sexually charged fantasies of two sisters who relive their childhood experiences in an imaginary world peopled by seductive goblins. The production is in the Theatre Too space.

A Christmas Story: The Musical
Broadway at the Center, November 21-23
From Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the songwriting team behind Dear Evan Hansen and The Greatest Showman, A Christmas Story: The Musical brings the classic 1983 movie to hilarious life onstage.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Casa Mañana, November 22-December 23
Rudolph, Hermey the Elf, Yukon Cornelius, and the Abominable Snow Monster go on an unforgettable adventure that's filled with holiday hits like “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” “The Island of Misfit Toys,” “The Most Wonderful Day of the Year,” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

A Christmas Carol
Dallas Theater Center, November 28-December 27
Black Hackler is this year's Ebenezer Scrooge in Kevin Moriarty's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale. Follow Ebenezer Scrooge’s unforgettable journey from miserliness to generosity as he encounters the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future — all in 90 minutes.

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Netflix House will debut in Dallas with murals from acclaimed artist

Netflix House

Jeremy Biggers at Netflix House

A long-awaited immersive venue is opening in Dallas, and it will debut with local art on its walls: Netflix House, a year-round exhibit revolving around Netflix shows and movies, will open at Galleria Dallas on December 11, with two murals from award-winning Dallas multi-medium artist Jeremy Biggers.

Netflix House is an immersive dive complete with merchandise store, film house, arcade, and restaurant-bar. When it opens, Dallas will be the second location in the U.S., following Philadelphia, where it debuted in November 2025, also with murals from a local artist.

A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Biggers is a renowned artist whose murals can be found spashed on walls across Dallas. Many, such as the Selena portrait on the wall outside Top Ten Records at 306 S. Bishop Ave., have become local landmarks.

He's a logical choice, having worked with a number of corporations including Nike, Adidas, the Dallas Mavericks, and IBM, for whom he created the "THINK" mural in their Dallas corporate office. His works have also been exhibited nationally, including a 2024 solo exhibition "be safe out there bro" at Band of Vices, a gallery in Los Angeles.

"Being chosen to be the artist to paint this mural, it would have been a disservice to myself, as well as the art scene in the city, not to try to infuse myself into it," he says.

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Biggers did two murals featuring his interpretation of Netflix figures including the Squid Game Young-hee doll, characters from KPop Demon Hunters and megahit series Stranger Things, plus Pandy and DJ Catnip, the best friends in the interactive series Gabby’s Dollhouse.

Both murals are intensely colored works that incorporate Biggers' signature motif: a grid of polka dots spread across the image.

One is on the exterior of Netflix House, at the parking entrance, a colorful collage of characters, measuring 38 feet x 50 feet — the tallest mural Biggers has tackled. He painted it with aerosol; it took him two months to complete.
The other is on the interior, on the mall side entrance of Netflix House, measuring 57 feet x 12 feet — a study in moody blacks and blues, with accents of neon-red that give it a 3D effect.

“I'm trying to tell the story of Netflix, and the story of where Netflix has been historically, where Netflix is headed in the future, and then also infusing my own narrative and my own language visually into that story,” he says.

“They could have opened this anywhere, so for Dallas to be one of the very first locations — that’s a testament to us as a market, as consumers of arts and consumers in general," he says.

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