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Comedian John Mulaney trips off 2025 tour with stop in Grand Prairie

Comedian John Mulaney will tour in fall 2025.

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Comedian John Mulaney will return to the road on a new stand-up comedy tour, John Mulaney: Mister Whatever, which will stop at Texas Trust CU Theatre in Grand Prairie on November 7.

The announcement of the tour comes in the midst of Mulaney's run on his current Netflix talk show, Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, airing live weekly on Wednesdays through May 28.

The tour will travel to 31 cities across North America, starting on June 27 in Newark, New Jersey and running through at least December 18.

In addition to the Grand Prairie date, Mulaney will perform in Sugar Land (outside of Houston) on November 8 and Austin on November 9.

This will be Mulaney's first live dates in Texas since his 2022 tour.

Mulaney has grown to become one of the most popular comedians in the United States. After working as a writer for Saturday Night Live from 2008-2013, he starred in his own short-lived sitcom and starred alongside Nick Kroll in Oh, Hello on Broadway.

He also released two Emmy Award-winning comedy specials on Netflix, went back to SNL to host six times, and hosted two different Netflix talk shows.

Tickets for the tour will be available via presales starting on Wednesday, April 23 at 10 am local time. The general on-sale starts on Friday, April 25 at 10 local time at johnmulaney.com.

John Mulaney: Mister Whatever Tour Dates

Fri, June 27, 2025 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center with Jon Stewart and Pete Davidson
Sat, June 28th 2025 – Verona, NY – Turning Stone Resort Casino
Sun, June 29th 2025 – Lenox, MA – Tanglewood Theater
Fri, July 18th 2025 – Hinckley, MN – Grand Casino Hinckley Amphitheater
Sat, July 19th 2025 – Winnipeg, MB – Assiniboine Park – Great Outdoors Festival with Martin Short
Sun, July 20th 2025 – Edmonton, AB – Kinsmen Park – Great Outdoors Festival with Martin Short
Thurs, Aug 7th 2025 – New Haven, CT – Westville Music Bowl with special guests Fred Armisen, Mike Birbiglia, and Nick Kroll
Fri, Aug 8th 2025 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts with special guests Fred Armisen, Mike Birbiglia, and Nick Kroll
Sat, Aug 9th 2025 – Portland, ME – Cross Insurance Arena with special guests Fred Armisen, Mike Birbiglia, and Nick Kroll
Sun, Aug 10th 2025 – Halifax, NS – Halifax Citadel Garrison Grounds – Great Outdoors Festival with special guests Fred Armisen, Mike Birbiglia, and Nick Kroll
Fri, Sep 5th 2025 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
Sat, Sep 6th 2025 – Canandaigua, NY – CMAC
Sat, Sep 13th 2025 – Vancouver, BC – Brockton Oval – Great Outdoors Festival with special guestsFred Armisen, Mike Birbiglia, and Nick Kroll
Thurs, Sep 18th 2025 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark
Thurs, Sep 25th 2025 – Boston, MA – Boch Center Wang Theater
Sat, Oct 4th 2025 – Durham, NC – DPAC
Sun, Oct 5th 2025 – North Charleston, SC – North Charleston Performing Arts Center
Fri, Oct 10th 2025 – Saratoga, CA – The Mountain Winery
Sat, Oct 11th 2025 – Las Vegas, NV – Dolby Live Park Theater
Sun, Oct 12th 2025 – San Diego, CA – Rady Shell
Thurs, Oct 16th 2025 – Detroit, MI- Fox Theatre
Thurs, Oct 23rd 2025 – Pittsburgh, PA – Petersen Events Center
Fri, Oct 24th 2025 – Cleveland, OH – Playhouse Square – Palace Theatre
Fri, Nov 7th 2025 - Grand Prairie, TX - Texas Trust CU Theatre
Sat, Nov 8th 2025 – Houston, TX – Smart Financial Centre
Thurs, Nov 13th 2025 - Austin, TX - Bass Concert Hall
Sat, Nov 22nd 2025 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
Sat, Dec 6th 2025 – Tampa, FL – Straz Center
Sun, Dec 7th 2025 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood
Thurs, Dec 11th 2025 – Orlando, FL – Walt Disney Theater
Fri, Dec 12th 2025 – Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre
Thurs, Dec 18th 2025 – Washington, DC – The Anthem

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Movie Review

The End of Oak Street can't live up to its Spielberg inspirations

Photo by Daniel McFadden

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway in The End of Oak Street.

Steven Spielberg is the iconic director of the last 50 years, so it’s no surprise that many other filmmakers have borrowed from his classic films. But most of the time those come in the form of references or homages, not straight up theft, which is what it feels like watching The End of Oak Street play out in front of your eyes.

Set in the early 1980s in an idyllic suburban neighborhood of an unnamed city, Denise (Anne Hathaway) and Greg (Ewan McGregor) are parents to two teenagers, Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery). They’re also possibly heading toward divorce, as Audrey is secretly writing a novel with a thinly-veiled plot about their life, and Brian is cagey about having to earn extra money with a pizza delivery job.

That all gets put on the backburner when a mysterious event takes their entire neighborhood back to the time of dinosaurs. Armed with little more than a shotgun and sledgehammer, Audrey and Brian do their best to keep the family safe in their house. But the longer the ordeal goes on, circumstances force them out onto the streets and into the increasing danger that’s all around them.

Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, the film tries immensely hard to be like the Spielberg movies its filmmaker clearly adores, but fails at almost every turn. It never earns the broken family in ‘80s suburbia vibes that were prevalent in E.T., going all in right away in the opening scene with a neighborhood block party that feels forced. Other elements like a bully who has it out for Brian, the family dog that disappears, and an angry neighbor come across as the tropes they are and not as organic parts of the plot.

When it finally gets to its dinosaur sequences, they pale in comparison to those found in Jurassic Park. The strange manner in which the dinosaurs appear is a big part of that, but the action involving them forgoes ominous moments that could build tension for those that play up gore in an unexpected way for a PG-13 movie. Many of the attacks have so little emotional meaning that they come off as comical, which is entertaining but in a hollow way.

As if those weren’t enough, Mitchell - perhaps at the behest of producer J.J. Abrams (who made his own Spielbergian film, Super 8) - tries to honor Spielberg in other ways. Just like in Jaws, he employs the use of a split diopter lens, which keeps characters in both the foreground and background in focus. But instead of using it judiciously, it’s brought out in three separate scenes, including a laughable one with the four family members where it turns into overkill.

Hathaway, coming off of a role in The Odyssey that could earn her an Oscar nomination, is the best part of this film. But even her evident skills are dragged down by the ridiculousness of the story, which requires hysterics that even she can’t sell. McGregor can normally be counted on for a good performance, but he gives several line readings with strange cadences that make his already-underwritten character come off worse. Stella and Convery are okay, but their roles are unmemorable overall.

Mitchell and his team can never settle on exactly what type of film they were trying to make, and so even though The End of Oak Street has a few moments that work, they’re surrounded by many others that don’t. In trying to emulate Spielberg - there’s even a blatant Back to the Future (produced by Spielberg) rip-off towards the end - all Mitchell has done is show how difficult it is to be the master.

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The End of Oak Street opens in theaters on August 14.