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How to see Gwen Stefani and other hot musicians for only $20 this summer

Gwen Stefani is one of the big musical acts you can see for just $20 at Gexa Energy Pavilion this summer.

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Gexa Energy Pavilion annually plays host to a slew of big summer concerts, and this year as a special treat — or perhaps to entice people to go out in the heat — Live Nation has announced a special Kickoff to Summer offer, giving fans access to select shows for just $20 per ticket.

While the deal won't include every concert coming to the Fair Park venue this summer — notable omissions include Weezer, Dixie Chicks, and Zac Brown Band — it does feature the vast majority of acts between May 13 and September 17, including Hall & Oates, Darius Rucker, Korn and Rob Zombie, the Avett Brothers, and Gwen Stefani.

That $20 is a flat fee, by the way; Live Nation doesn't hide fees in its purchases. But there is one catch: The promotion only runs for one week, so you'd better pay attention to the times. It starts at 2 am on Friday, May 13, and runs through 9:59 pm on Friday, May 20. Go here to purchase tickets and for more information on the offer.

Below are the Gexa Energy Pavilion shows featured in $20 Kickoff to Summer deal:

May 13: Daryl Hall and John Oates
May 20: Journey and the Doobie Brothers
May 21: Jason Aldean with Thomas Rhett
May 29: 97.1 The Eagle’s BFD 16 featuring Shinedown
June 17: Darius Rucker
June 18: The Avett Brothers
June 25: Slipknot with Marilyn Manson
June 28: G-Eazy and Logic with YG and Yo Gotti
July 7: Jim Gaffigan
July 16: The Art of Rap featuring Public Enemy, MC Lyte, and Ice-T
July 29: Blink-182
July 30: Rascal Flatts
August 4: Korn and Rob Zombie
August 6: 311 and Sublime with Rom
August 12: Disturbed with Breaking Benjamin
August 13: Gwen Stefani with Eve
August 18: Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and Cheap Trick
August 19: Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa
August 20: Dierks Bentley with Randy Houser
August 24: Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon, Tesla
August 27: Brad Paisley with Tyler Farr
September 7: Black Sabbath
September 17: 5 Seconds of Summer

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Celebrity Comes to Town

Watch High Fidelity along with star John Cusack at Dallas screening

Photo courtesy of The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

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Actor John Cusack is coming to Dallas to look back at one of his many iconic roles: AT&T Performing Arts Center will host a retrospective screening of High Fidelity at Winspear Opera House on May 14, 2026.

The screening provides not only an opportunity to see the classic film in a theater setting, but also to hear all about it from the star himself.

High Fidelity was the 2000 film adaptation of a popular novel by Nick Hornby that tells the story of Rob Gordon, the music-obsessive owner of a failing record store in Chicago who grapples with the journey into adulthood.

The screening/Q&A is latest in a series of similar events Cusack has done in recent years; in 2023, he came to town to talk about the 1984 film Sixteen Candles.

Cusack's long career started in 1983 with the unmemorable movie Class, but he went on to become one of the faces of the 1980s, starring or co-starring in movies like Better Off Dead, Stand by Me, Eight Men Out, and Say Anything.

Although he worked steadily in the 1990s, 2000's High Fidelity was part of a return to relevance that included films like Grosse Pointe Blank, Con Air, Anastasia, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Adaptation.

These days Cusack is known just as much for his political activism as he his for his work, with the two occasionally converging, as in his latest film, Fog of War.

Tickets for the event go on sale to the public on Wednesday, November 19 at 10 am at attpac.org. Tickets for Center Circle Members are on sale now.

For those who want even more Cusack, there's an exclusive post-show meet & greet and photo opportunity, available when you purchase VIP seating in the Center Orchestra, rows AAA, AA, BB, CC and A, plus seats 6–15 in row B. Access to the meet & greet is only included when tickets are purchased within these designated VIP sections.

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