- Gypsy Rose Lee tries to make it in vaudeville and ends up a burlesque star instead. See the musical Gypsy at Backdoor Theatre in Wichita Falls.
- In Dallas, comedian Elayne Boosler performs her feisty political humor at the Kessler Theater with special guest Linda Stogner.
- And at the Dallas Museum of Art, poets Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young share their work in “Poetry, Place, & Race” as part of the Arts & Letters Live series.