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Dallas' Theatre Three gets provocative with 2026-2027 season productions

The 2026-2027 season from Theatre Three will feature seven bold productions.

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The 2026-2027 season for Dallas' Theatre Three will feature a lineup of seven productions, musicals, comedies, and solo performances that collectively explore identity, resilience, love, and the chaos of being human.

Taking place in both the main Norma Young Arena Stage and Theatre Too spaces, the season blends iconic titles with daring new works, inviting audiences into stories that are as entertaining as they are thought-provoking, says a release.

Opening the season on the Norma Young Arena Stage will be the groundbreaking rock musical Spring Awakening, featuring music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater.

Based on Frank Wedekind’s controversial play, the production (running September 10-27, 2026) follows teenagers pushing against the constraints of a repressive society as they navigate desire, identity, and the consequences of silence.

The Theatre Too season will kick off with Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play I Am My Own Wife, running October 15-November 1, 2026.

Performed as a solo piece, it tells the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, chronicling survival, identity, and self-invention in the face of Nazi and Stasi oppression.

The holiday season brings mischief and mayhem with GREMLINS! (mostly), a brand-new commission by local playwright Matt Lyle inspired by the beloved 1984 cult classic movie.

Running December 3-20, 2026 on the Norma Young Arena Stage, the play is packed with dark humor and chaotic fun, promising a wildly entertaining theatrical experience where one small mistake leads to unforgettable consequences.

Dear Jack, Dear Louise by Ken Ludwig, starts the 2027 portion of the Theatre Too season, running February 4-21.

The play offers a heartfelt and humorous love story inspired by the playwright’s own parents. Through letters exchanged during World War II, two strangers discover connection, resilience, and romance across distance and uncertainty.

In the spring, laughter takes center stage on the Norma Young Arena Stage with Neil Simon’s fast-paced farce, Rumors.

Running March 11-28, 2027, the production features a glamorous anniversary party spiraling into confusion as gossip flies and lies multiply in a hilarious race to keep up appearances.

Closing the Theatre Too season will be Miss Margarida’s Way by Roberto Athayde, running April 29-May 16, 2027.

As Miss Margarida’s lesson unfolds, audiences find themselves implicated in a provocative exploration of authority, control, and complicity. The sharp, darkly comic satire transforms a classroom into a battleground.

The season culminates in a major event: the regional premiere of Teeth, the bold and genre-defying musical by Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs.

Running June 3-20, 2027, the production is equal parts hilarious, provocative, and empowering. It is a coming-of-age story with a bite; exploring power, fear, sexuality, and self-determination in a way that is as unforgettable as it is unflinching.

Committed to providing accessible theatre to the community next season, Theatre Three will continue to offer $10 T3Rush tickets for Thursday night performances.

Students can also purchase $10 tickets to any performance with a valid student ID, or take advantage of $5 student rush tickets.

Subscriptions are available for renewal now at Theatre3Dallas.com. New subscriptions will be available on June 15. Single tickets and Flex Passes will be available August 3.

For more information, call 214-871-3300 x1 or e-mail at BoxOffice@t3dallas.org.

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Artist sues FIFA for $25 million over painted-over Dallas whale mural

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Artist Wyland's Whaling Wall mural being painted over for a FIFA World Cup-related mural in Dallas.

The artist who painted a giant mural on a building in downtown Dallas of life-sized swimming whales has filed a $25 million lawsuit against soccer's international governing body and others, saying they illegally painted over his work to promote the city's upcoming World Cup matches.

The artist Wyland says he hand-painted the sprawling mural that covered roughly 17,000 square feet (1,580 square meters) across two of the building's walls.

The mural stood for nearly three decades before workers began painting over it last month, causing an uproar among residents who admired the mural's grand scale and message of ocean conservation.

The area’s World Cup organizing committee said in a statement that, in place of Wyland's mural, new artwork is planned "that captures this current historical moment and reflects the energy, unity, and global spirit surrounding the World Cup 2026.” It said a portion of Wyland's mural would be preserved.

Wyland filed suit Monday, June 1 in U.S District Court in Dallas saying that World Cup organizers, along with the building's owner and management company, painted over his mural without his consent or even notifying him. He says their actions violated a 1990 federal law passed to protect visual artists from destruction of publicly displayed works.

Wyland is seeking at least $25 million in damages. His lawsuit says world soccer's governing body, FIFA, and other defendants “hastily and irrevocably destroyed a civic landmark” to promote the World Cup.

“Though FIFA claims they were working to develop art for the host city, in truth, they defaced an historic fixture of the host city,” the artist's lawsuit says.

A FIFA spokesperson said Tuesday the federation “has no involvement in this whatsoever” and referred a reporter to the tournament's local organizing committee.

A spokesperson for the North Texas FWC Organizing Committee declined to comment. The committee isn't named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

A spokesperson for Slate Asset Management, which manages the building where the mural was painted over, said in a statement that local World Cup organizers asked Slate in March to donate the mural space for “a new public art installation.”

“Slate is not being compensated in any way for the use of the wall space and was told by the local groups that Mr. Wyland had been notified,” the management company's spokesperson said in an email.

Dallas is hosting more World Cup matches than any of the other sites in the event co-hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with nine matches set to be played at AT&T Stadium in suburban Arlington, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

Wyland's Dallas mural, titled “Whaling Wall 82,” was finished in 1999 and is among more than 100 similar murals known as Whaling Walls the artist painted around the world to promote the conservation of ocean life.

An online petition protesting the mural's destruction and calling for protecting of public artwork in Dallas has received more than 2,600 signatures.

Wyland's lawsuit alleges violations of the Visual Artists Rights Act, a 1990 federal law that protects artwork of “recognized stature” even if someone else owns the physical artwork.

A judge cited that law in 2018 when he ordered a property owner to pay a group of New York graffiti artists $6.7 million for whitewashing dozens of their spray-painted murals on buildings that once housed a factory in Queens. The ruling was upheld on appeal.

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