Weekend Event Planner

Ghost The Musical and Harlem Globetrotters top best weekend events in Dallas

If you like theater and/or sports, you're in luck with this weekend's line-up of events in Dallas. Among the offerings are a popular Broadway musical, a visit by a certain globetrotting basketball team and a viewing party for the biggest football game of the year.

Below are your best options for your precious free time Thursday through Sunday. Don't like what you see? Lucky for you, we have a much longer list of the city's best events.

Thursday, January 30

Dallas Summer Musicals presents Ghost The Musical
One of the latest productions to cash in on the "adapt a popular movie into a musical" trend, Ghost the Musical takes the same story as the 1990 film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg and updates it with a bunch of new songs. Dallas Summer Musicals presents it at Music Hall at Fair Park through February 9.

Second Thought Theatre presents Cock
The 10th anniversary season for Second Thought Theatre kicks off with the boldly named Cock, which explores identity and sexuality through the story of a gay man recently out of a long-term romance who falls in love with a woman. The play runs at Kalita Humphreys Theater through February 22.

Friday, January 31

2014 DFW Boat Expo
Boating season may be months away, but that actually makes it the perfect time to check out the latest and the greatest from the boating industry. More than 650 all-new 2014 boat and watercraft models are on display and nearly 150 different vendors have booths at the expo, running through Sunday at Dallas Market Hall.

Arts & Letters Live: Jessica Fellowes
You may or may not be satisfied with the current season of Downton Abbey, but there's no denying the cultural impact the show has had in its four seasons. In the latest Arts & Letters Live from the Dallas Museum of Art, Jessica Fellowes, the niece of the creator of the show, talks about her books, The World of Downton Abbey and The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, at First United Methodist Church of Dallas.

Saturday, February 1

Crow Collection of Asian Art presents Chinese New Year Festival
For its 15th annual celebration of the Chinese New Year, the Crow Collection of Asian Art presents its biggest festival yet, spanning across Flora and Harwood Streets. Expect a host of traditional Chinese New Year art-making activities, plus mini horses, calligraphy demonstrations and food trucks galore.

U.S. Olympic Committee presents Road to Sochi Tour
The Sochi Winter Olympics start on February 9, and you can get pumped up for the world-class athletic performances by trying your hand at versions of them. Among the activities are roller luge sleds and cross country skis, a hockey slapshot and photo ops in a bobsled. The tour stays at Klyde Warren Park through Sunday.

American Airlines Center presents Harlem Globetrotters
If it's early February, then it's time for the annual visit from those comedy basketball ambassadors, the Harlem Globetrotters. Along with their usual shtick, the Globetrotters have introduced online voting for fans to vote on new rules that could affect the outcome of the game. They play twice at American Airlines Center.

Sunday, February 2

The Complete Works of Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
It's been almost a year and a half since Shakespeare Dallas and AT&T Performing Arts Center set out to present staged readings of every one of Shakespeare's works. The 13th in the series is another under-the-radar selection, Troilus and Cressida, set amidst the Trojan War. It plays on both Saturday and Sunday in Hamon Hall inside the Winspear Opera House.

Super Bowl XLVIII Watch Party
Once again, the Dallas Cowboys came nowhere close to making the Super Bowl this year, but that doesn't mean it's not worth watching. In fact, the match-up between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks promises to be one of the most competitive games ever, and you can see it for free on the biggest screen in Dallas at the Granada Theater.

Ghost the Musical plays at the Music Hall at Fair Park through February 9.

Photo by Joan Marcus

Ghost the Musical plays at the Music Hall at Fair Park through February 9.

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Netflix House will debut in Dallas with murals from acclaimed artist

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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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