Dallas

For season schedule & prices, go to dallasopera.org.

For season schedule & prices, go to dallassymphony.com.

For concert schedule & prices, call or go to granadatheater.com.

For concert schedule & prices, call or go to hob.com/dallas.

For concert schedule & prices, go to nokialivedfw.com.

For season schedule & prices, go to texasballettheater.org.

Rated by Time magazine as one of the top five youth theaters in the country, the DCT serves the community with nearly a dozen main stage productions every year, a national touring company, and education and outreach programs.

For season schedule & prices, go to dct.org.

For season schedule & prices, go to dallassummermusicals.org

With a name snatched from Samuel Beckett’s existential classic Waiting for Godot, this company seeks to challenge viewers’ moral and social consciences by presenting plays that provoke thought and debate, whether they be classics or brand-new works.

For season schedule & prices, call or go to kitchendogtheater.org.

For season schedule & prices, call or go to teatrodallas.org.

For season schedule & prices, go totheatre3dallas.com.

For season schedule & prices, go to undermain.org.

For season schedule & prices, go to watertowertheatre.org.

For season schedule & prices, go to tbaal.org.

Open Tue & Wed 11–5, Thur 11–9, Fri–Sun 11–5. Gen adm $10, senior citizens $7, students with ID $5, children 11 & under free (Thur 5–9 & first Tue of every month everybody free). dallasmuseumofart.org

Open Tue–Fri 10–6, Sat 11–4. Free. gossmichaelfoundation.org

Open Tue-Sat 10-5. Free. dallasculture.org/latinocc

Open Wed–Sat 11–9. Free. the-mac.org

Thru May 17: From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany.

Open Tue–Sat 10–5, Thur 10–8, Sun noon–5. Gen adm $8, senior citizens $6, non-SMU students $4, SMU students, faculty & staff, and children 12 & under free (Thur 5–8 everybody free). meadowsmuseumdallas.org

The result of the 2006 merging of the Dallas Museum of Science and History (established in 1936), the Science Place (established in 1946), and the Dallas Children’s Museum (established in 1995), the MNS occupies three structures in Fair Park: the Nature Building, which houses hundreds of artifacts and mammal specimens; the Science Building, where you’ll find more than two hundred hands-on exhibits (everything from the Dental Gallery to the Little Urban Farm); and the city’s only public planetarium. The newest permanent gallery, Your Incredible Body, is an interactive exploration of why and how our body does what it does, from sneezing and sweating to digesting food and thinking.

Open Mon–Sat 10–5, Sun noon–5. Gen adm $8.75; youths 12–18, students & senior citizens $7.75; children 3–11 $5.50; 2 & under free. natureandscience.org

Open Tue & Wed 11–5, Thur 11–9, Fri–Sun 11–5. Gen adm $10, senior citizens $7, students $5, children 12 & under and museum members free. nashersculpturecenter.org

Open Tue–Sat 10–5:30. Free. panamericanart.com

Thru May 3: Igor Malijevsky—in his first solo exhibit, this Czech artist displays his penchant for the surreal with photos featuring things as strange as shark fins on elevators and the image of a woman superimposed on a building.

Open Tue–Sat 11–6. Free. pdnbgallery.com

The museum, located in the former Texas School Book Depository, chronicles the life and death of President John F. Kennedy. Cameras that recorded the events at Dealey Plaza on Nov 22, 1963, are on permanent display.

Open Mon noon–6, Tue–Sun 10–6. Gen adm $13.50, senior citizens & youths 6–18 $12.50, children 5 & under free. jfk.org

Thru May 3: Japanese Snuff Bottles from the Trammell S. Crow Collection. Thru Jul 12: Tending the Afterlife: Chinese Tomb Art From the Neolithic Period to the Ming Dynasty—timed to coincide with the blockbuster King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art, this comprehensive installation reveals the mysteries of China’s buried treasures. Many of the tomb goods on view—intricate bronze mirrors, earthenware figures, and precious works of art in jade, bronze, gold, silver, and clay—have never been seen by the public.

Open Tue & Wed 10–5, Thur 10–9, Fri–Sun 10–5. Free. crowcollection.org

Open Tue–Sun noon–5. Gen adm $5, senior citizens & students 13–18 $4, children 5–12 $3, 4 & under free. thewomensmuseum.org

National Football League. dallascowboys.com

National Basketball Association. nba.com/mavericks

National Hockey League. stars.nhl.com

Major League Soccer. fcdallas.com

Located halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, the 1,826-acre lakeside park offers a respite from the hustle and bustle of the Metroplex. Set up camp at one of 355 sites, launch your boat on the 7,500-acre Joe Pool Reservoir, take a ninety-minute guided hike, peruse the Penn Farm Agricultural History Center, or bike fifteen miles of trails. And don’t miss the eight-hundred-foot limestone escarpment that abuts the blackland prairie: It’s one of the highest points in North Texas.

Open daily 8–10. Gen adm $5, children 12 & under free. cedarhillstatepark.org

The 66-acre site, with its dozens of themed gardens, sits on the southeast shore of White Rock Lake.

Open daily 9–5. Gen adm $9.50, senior citizens $8, children 3–12 $6, 2 & under free. Parking $5. dallasarboretum.org

More than two thousand animals, including many rare and endangered species, make their home on the 95 acres of the Dallas Zoo. The Wilds of Africa attraction is considered one of the best exhibits of its kind, and the two-acre Lacerte Family Children’s Zoo lets kids pet farm animals, ride ponies, and get a subterranean look at dwarf mongooses and naked mole rats.

Open daily 9–5. Gen adm $8.75, senior citizens $5, children 3–11 $5.75, 2 & under free. Parking $5. dallaszoo.com

Built on a former illegal dumping site, this center focuses on improving the environment through educational hands-on exhibits, miles of nature viewing trails, the Children’s Discovery Garden, and sustainable building features, including a vegetated roof. Situated within the six-thousand-acre Great Trinity Forest, which is the largest urban hardwood forest in the U.S., the center provides direct access to a myriad of outdoor activities, including nature viewing, hiking, picnicking, and canoeing.

Open Tue–Sat 9–4, Sun 10–5. Gen adm $6, senior citizens $4, children $3; third Thursday of every month everybody free 9 a.m.–9p.m. trinityriveraudubon.org