Weekend Event Planner

These are the 12 best things to do in Dallas this weekend

It's a pretty big weekend around Dallas, headlined by one of the biggest pop stars in the world right now. Other choices include three local theater events, a festival celebrating all things Irish, a concert from a renowned folk duo, a new opera production, a massive symphony concert, stars dancing, a local dance production, monster trucks, and a big-name comedian.

Below are more best ways to spend your precious free time this weekend. Want more options? Lucky for you, we have a much longer list of the city's best events.

Thursday, February 29

Undermain Theatre presents This time
Jane, Hester, and Peregrine work as maids in a 1900s manor, unable to say what they want to say, stealing moments away from work to hold time with each other. Their love bubbles under their words. We hear their thoughts they aren't yet brave enough to tell each other. They can't stop thinking of death. We hurtle towards it. Undermain Theatre will present this a workshop production through March 17.

Bishop Arts Theatre Center presents The Sum of Us One Act Festival
The Sum of Us One Act Festival is Bishop Arts Theatre Center's third annual banned books festival. It features a collection of short plays by six local playwrights inspired by Heather McGhee's analysis, exploring the far-reaching costs of racism and the path to healing as a community. There will be nightly talkbacks that foster meaningful conversations and a stronger sense of unity. The festival takes place through March 17.

Friday, March 1

North Texas Irish Festival
The North Texas Irish Festival celebrates the best in music, dance, food and spirits, storytelling, art, and more. The festival features 10 stages of live music, Irish step dancing, chef demonstrations and more, indoors and outdoors. Guests will also enjoy beer and whiskey tastings, shopping, horse shows, sheepherding demonstrations, animal rescue groups, child-friendly entertainment, and arts and crafts for the kids. The festival takes place through Sunday at Fair Park.

Indigo Girls in concert
The folk rock music duo Indigo Girls have been around for almost 40 years, but they received arguably their best exposure to date when writer/director Greta Gerwig decided to use their best-known song, 1989's "Closer to Fine," as a key anthem in Barbie. Even without that bump, they've maintained a solid fanbase through the years thanks to their 15 albums, most recently Look Long in 2020. They'll play at Longhorn Ballroom.

Olivia Rodrigo in concert
The last time pop star Olivia Rodrigo came to town, she was in the midst of her breakout year following the release of her debut album, Sour. Her sophomore record, Guts, has proved just as popular, featuring the No. 1 song "Vampire" and getting nominated for six Grammy Awards. She'll get an upgrade in venue in her return, playing at American Airlines Center with the up-and-coming Chappell Roan as opening act.

Dallas Opera presents Romeo and Juliet
The Montague and Capulet families have been feuding in Verona for hundreds of years. But when Romeo meets Juliet at a masked ball, they fall innocently, and tragically, in love. Shakespeare’s greatest love story takes on new life with Gounod’s rapturously romantic score and the Dallas Opera debut of Golda Schultz. There will be four performances through March 9 at Winspear Opera House.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents "The Book with Seven Seals"
Conductor Fabio Luisi leads Schmidt's Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln (The Book with Seven Seals), which tackles no less a subject than the Bible’s Book of Revelation — the Apocalypse. The DSO, soloists, massive chorus, and organ solos on the Lay Family Concert Organ depict the breaking of the seals, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the seven trumpets summoning souls to the Last Judgment, and, finally, the message of salvation and an ecstatic “Hallelujah.” There will be three performances through Sunday at Meyerson Symphony Center.

Dancing with the Stars: Live
Dancing with the Stars is back on tour with a high energy, brand-new live production. This year’s all-new stage show will feature professional dancers from the hit television series performing new numbers, as well as some of the showstoppers featured in season 32. Dancers include Brandon Armstrong, Rylee Arnold, Alan Bersten, Daniella Karagach, Pasha Pashkov, Gleb Savchenko, host Emma Slater, and Britt Stewart. The event takes place at Texas Trust CU Theatre in Grand Prairie.

Texas Ballet Theater presents Brilliants
Brilliants is a mixed repertoire production featuring four shorter ballets in one program. The featured ballets include Rubies, choreographed by George Balanchine; Grand Pas Classique, choreographed by Victor Gsovsky; Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev, and Without Borders, choreographed by Val Caniparoli and originally created on the company in 2016. There will be four performances through Sunday at Wyly Theatre.

Saturday, March 2

Club Dada presents Lonesome Blues
The musical Lonesome Blues celebrates the life and accomplishments of legendary bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson, born blind but ultimately able to express his deepest emotions through music. Discovered on a street corner in Deep Ellum in 1925, Jefferson made more than 80 records over the next four years, becoming the biggest country blues singer of his generation. Starring J Dontray Davis in more than 10 different roles, the production will have seven performances through April 7 at Club Dada.

Monster Jam
Monster Jam, featuring an epic 12-truck line-up of fan favorites, includes the ultimate mix of high-flying stunts and four-wheel excitement with unbelievable action to unexpected thrills. Taking place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, it will include the return of The Monster Jam Pit Party, where fans can see the massive trucks up close, participate in Q&As with the drivers, take pictures, and enjoy other family-friendly fun.

Ronny Chieng: The Love To Hate It Tour
Ronny Chieng is a stand-up comedian, actor, and correspondent on The Daily Show. In addition to two Netflix stand-up comedy specials, Chieng has starred in Crazy Rich Asians, Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, M3GAN, American Born Chinese, Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., Vacation Friends 2, Joy Ride, and will star in the upcoming Hulu series, Interior Chinatown. He'll perform his brand-new hour of stand-up comedy at Majestic Theatre.

Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Acrisure Arena

Olivia Rodrigo will perform at American Airlines Center on March 1.

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World Cup match recap

Japan and Sweden play to 1-1 draw in World Cup match at Dallas Stadium

Japan v Sweden: Group F - FIFA World Cup 2026

Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images

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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Daizen Maeda gave Japan the lead and Anthony Elanga took it away six minutes later, helping Sweden to a 1-1 draw Thursday night, June 25 that sent both teams to the knockout round of the World Cup.

Elanga’s impressive left-footed strike from just outside the right corner of the box in the 62nd minute was his second goal of this year’s tournament. Elanga has scored only three goals in 49 games for Newcastle, but zero in 32 Premier League matches.

Six minutes earlier, Maeda settled a nifty pass from Ritsu Doan with his left foot in the penalty area and easily beat Jacob Widell Zetterstrom with his right foot.

It was Japan’s seventh goal of the tournament, the country’s most for an entire World Cup. That topped the six the Japanese scored while reaching the round of 16 in Russia eight years ago.

Japan is advancing out of the group stage for the third consecutive World Cup and fifth time in seven tries since first reaching the round of 16 as co-hosts in 2002. The Japanese team finished second in Group F behind the Netherlands and will play Brazil in Houston on Monday.

“For the good of football in Japan, I think it would be a very good experience,” coach Hajime Moriyasu said through a translator of his 16th-ranked team facing No. 5 Brazil. “We do believe there's a chance for us to win. And then we hope that we will be able to move one step further move on to the next stage.”

The Swedes have advanced to the knockout round the past four times they’ve qualified for the World Cup going back to 1994 — when they reached the semifinals the last time the U.S. hosted soccer’s biggest event.

Sweden will have to wait to find out its opponent in the round of 32 next week.

“We have to probably recover the players first and make sure that physically we’re in a good place for whoever we play,” coach Graham Potter said. “We’ve got to be on our toes in terms of logistics. I would say if you had said to me when we first came that would be the challenge we’d face, I would have absolutely taken it.”

Elanga had another chance to score in injury time, with his right-footed attempted forcing goalkeeper Zion Suzuki to make a diving deflection.

On the ensuing corner kick, Suzuki deflected Alexander Isak’s header off the crossbar and into the air, eventually ending the scoring chance with a leaping grab in a crowd of players.

The Blue Samurai's bag-waving, chanting fans among 70,137 at the sold-out home of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys were persistent as a scoreless game dragged into the second half. Japan seemed content to sit back and play for a draw that would have guaranteed the same spot in the knockout round as a win.

Just like that, things changed when Doan put Maeda in perfect position to score.

Elanga wasn't anywhere near scoring range, but Suzuki appeared screened and reacted late as the shot beat him to the far post.

Just three minutes later, Isak was inside the penalty area with a great scoring chance, but Suzuki deflected it wide and over the end line, angrily gesturing toward some of his teammates as Sweden lined up for another corner kick. The Swedes had eight corner kicks to only two for Japan.

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