Weekend Event Planner

These are the 11 best things to do in Dallas this weekend

The last weekend in June has a nice variety of events to choose from, including concerts featuring rock and Disney music, a fantastical dance production, a film festival, three theater productions, a big golf tournament, a well-known comedian, a highly anticipated basketball game, and early 4th of July celebrations.

Below are the best ways to spend your free time this weekend. If you want more options, check out the calendar for an even longer list of the city's best events.

Thursday, June 26

Summer of Loud Tour
The Summer of Loud Tour is aptly named, as the festival-style event will feature a number of rock bands, led by headliners Beartooth, I Prevail, Killswitch Engage, and Parkway Drive. Other performers include The Devil Wears Prada, The Amity Affliction, and Alpha Wolf. The event takes place at Dos Equis Pavilion.

Fever presents We Call it Ballet: Sleeping Beauty Dance and Light Show
Audiences can experience Sleeping Beauty like never before in this dance and light show. It's a unique fusion of classical ballet and modern technology, where local dancers literally light up the stage with glittering routines and glow-in-the-dark costumes. The timeless tale of the cursed princess awakened by her true love’s kiss comes to life on stage, as pirouettes and gravity-defying leaps cast a kaleidoscope of colors across the space. There will be two performances on Thursday at Irving Arts Center.

Oak Cliff Film Festival
The Oak Cliff Film Festival will feature a variety of feature films, short films, concerts, workshops, and more. Highlights include opening night film Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon, the Marc Maron documentary Are We Good?, closing night film Gypsy 83: Director's Cut, and more. Events will take place through Sunday at Texas Theatre, Bishop Arts Theater Center, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, The Kessler Theater, and more.

Turtle Creek Chorale presents Disney PRIDE in Concert
Turtle Creek Chorale will perform iconic Disney songs alongside a 30-piece orchestra, celebrating themes of love, LGBTQ+ pride, and family ties. Disney PRIDE in Concert will honor Disney’s globally acclaimed musical legacy and provide Chorale members the opportunity to share their personal journeys and reflect on how this music has shaped their lives. The program will include songs from The Lion King, Aladdin, Peter Pan, Cinderella, and more. The concert takes place on Thursday and Friday at Meyerson Symphony Center.

The Firehouse Theatre presents Oklahoma!
In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story. Their romantic journey contrasts with the comic exploits of brazen Ado Annie and hapless Will Parker in a musical adventure embracing hope, determination and the promise of a new land. The production runs through July 13 at The Firehouse Theatre in Farmers Branch.

Broadway at the Center presents The Addams Family
A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, The Addams Family is the magnificently macabre hit musical featuring everyone’s favorite creepy, kooky characters. Wednesday Addams has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. The production will have four performances through Saturday at Winspear Opera House.

Friday, June 27

Maridoe Golf Club presents LIV Golf Dallas
LIV Golf returns to Dallas with a weekend of world-class golf competition, entertainment, and immersive fan experiences. Fans can get up close to many of the biggest stars in the game, including Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, and more, as they compete in the league’s unique individual and team format. The band Whiskey Myers will perform live following the competition on Saturday. The tournament takes place through Sunday at Maridoe Golf Club in Carrollton.

Mic Drop Comedy presents Christopher Titus
Christopher Titus is a prolific stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and producer. He is currently performing his ninth 90-minute special Stories I Shouldn't Tell, while his most recent special, Amerigeddon, is available on Amazon. Additionally, Titus has a podcast called The Armageddon Update/Titus Podcast. He'll perform four times through Saturday at Mic Drop Comedy in Plano.

Dallas Wings vs. Indiana Fever
The WNBA has experienced a huge upswing in popularity in the past year thanks to an influx of great young players, most notably 2024 Rookie of the Year, Caitlin Clark. With the Dallas Wings gaining buzz thanks to their recent No. 1 draft pick, Paige Bueckers, a visit on Friday by Clark and her team, the Indiana Fever, made it an easy choice for the Wings to host their first-ever game at American Airlines Center instead of the much-smaller College Park Center in Arlington.

Sundown Collaborative Theatre presents The Amphibians
Set 13 years in the future, The Amphibians takes place in west central Florida shortly after the point of no return in the fight against climate change. When two high-schoolers unearth a wondrous discovery in the woods, they learn hard lessons about the evolution of friendship and what it means to take care of something at the end of the world. The production runs through July 6 at the Theatre Denton Annex within Golden Triangle Mall in Denton.

Saturday, June 28

Early 4th of July events
While most 4th of July events in and around Dallas will take place on July 3 or 4, there are a few places celebrating early. They include Ennis Freedom Fest, the Yankee Doodle Parade in Denton, Red, White and Boom! Sunnyfest Celebration in Sunnyvale, Market Street Allen USA in Allen, and Independence Day Celebration at Klyde Warren Park in Dallas.

Photo courtesy of Klyde Warren Park

Klyde Warren Park presents its annual Independence Day Celebration on June 28.

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Movie Review

Lust eclipses romance in new adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights'

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in Wuthering Heights.

Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights is one of those classic books assigned in high school English classes, and it has received a number of film adaptations over the years, each of which differ in numerous ways from the source material. Purists won’t receive any reprieve from Emerald Fennell’s 2026 adaptation, with a title that is stylized as "Wuthering Heights” for good reason.

Cathy (played as an adult by Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) have known each other their entire lives, with Cathy’s alcoholic and inveterate gambler father (Martin Clunes) taking in Heathcliff on a whim when he was a boy. The two bond as they grow up together, although Cathy always seems to have an eye on moving up in society from their relatively impoverished lifestyle.

Cathy finally gets her wish when the rich Linton familyled by Edgar (Shazad Latif), moves in down the road, Despite discovering she has feelings for the now grown-up Heathcliff, Cathy sees Edgar as her way out and agrees to marry him. A scorned Heathcliff flees, returning years later as mysteriously wealthy. His reappearance ignites something in Cathy’s soul, and the two engage in a perhaps unwise affair.

Fennell (Promising Young Woman, Saltburn) infuses the dusty material with an energy that’s not typically present in stories set in this particular time and place. Aside from the occasional Charli XCX song (the singer created a whole concept album for the film), the film looks and feels like a period piece, albeit one that doesn’t get bogged down in the drudgery that can sometimes come from films set in the distant past.

Much of that has to do with the lust the filmmaker puts into the story. Even if you’re not familiar with Brontë’s book, you can rest assured that Fennell has strayed far from the text, giving Cathy and Heathcliff thoughts and actions unthinkable in the 19th century. Fennell plays with expectations by opening the film with audio featuring creaking noises and a man grunting, conjuring up a situation far different than what is actually happening, and she also makes liberal use of rain, sweat, and tears to make the actors enticing.

What she can’t do, however, is make the two lead characters compelling. Cathy is a striver who never seems to know what she wants out of life, and Heathcliff goes from a bore to a brute over the course of the film, with no clear indication that he likes anybody, much less Cathy. Anyone expecting some kind of grand romance will be disappointed as Fennell is much more interested in making the film weird, like having the walls of Cathy’s room look like her skin, complete with freckles.

Robbie and Elordi do well enough with the material, and it’s clear that both of them are committed to bringing Fennell’s vision to life. Their styles tend to balance each other out, and if the story had been committed to their characters’ relationship, they might be lauded for their chemistry. In the end, though, the supporting actors feel more interesting, including ones played by Hong Chau, Alison Miller, and Clunes.

This version of Wuthering Heights should never be construed as an alternative to reading the book for any high schoolers out there. While Fennell makes the film interesting with her technical filmmaking choices, the story never finds its footing as it fails to sell the one thing that it seems to promise.

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Wuthering Heights opens in theaters on February 13.

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