PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Join fellow book lovers for lunch in the DMA’s Founders Room and enjoy engaging dialogue about Jessie Burton’s novel The Miniaturist. Set in 17th-century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—The Miniaturist is a story steeped in atmosphere, suspense, betrayal, and retribution. Dr. Jaina Sanga, author, literary scholar, and Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities, will facilitate the conversation and lead the group discussion.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $25.00
STUDENT: $0.00
DMA MEMBER: $20.00
EDUCATOR: $0.00
LIBRARIAN: $5.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR / LIBRARIAN Public Onsale: February 13, 2019 2:36 PM to February 25, 2019 7:30 PM
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: December 19, 2018 9:11 AM to February 25, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Reyna Grande’s memoir A Dream Called Home is an inspiring account of her quest to find her place in America as a first generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family. At 9 years old, Grande walked across the US-Mexico border in search of her parents, who left her behind years ago in pursuit of a better life. By daring to pursue her dreams of an education and a writing career, Grande builds the one thing she has always longed for: a home that would endure.
Valeria Luiselli’s novel Lost Children Archive humanizes the pressing and polarizing issue of immigration. As a family travels across America on a summer road trip, there is news on the radio about an “immigration crisis”: thousands of kids trying to cross the border into the United States, but getting detained—or lost in the desert along the way. As they drive, we sense that the family is on the brink of a crisis of its own. This powerful novel takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today. This event is FREE for students and Educators.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $40.00
STUDENT: $20.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: December 19, 2018 9:13 AM to March 4, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
“Compelling stories and passionate acting, all literally from the heart of Texas.” —Southern Living

Tiffany Solano DeSena of Dallas Theater Center’s Brierley Resident Acting Company will read “Signs, Wonders, and Fates Fulfilled” by Stephanie Saldaña. Jeffrey Schmidt, Artistic Director of Theatre Three in Dallas, will read “So Many Lovely Lies” by Andrew Geyer. Perennial audience favorite G. W. Bailey (M*A*S*H, The Police Academy films, and TNT’s Major Crimes) will read “Let Me Let You Go” by Jamie Brickhouse. The evening will also feature “The Red Swing” by local author Phyllis W. Allen.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $40.00
STUDENT: $20.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00
KERA MEMBER: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR / KERA MEMBER Public Onsale: December 18, 2018 3:55 PM to March 6, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Promotional Partner: KERA

When British author Jessie Burton’s New York Times–bestselling debut novel, The Miniaturist, premiered as a three-part series on PBS Masterpiece, it brought 17th-century Dutch culture vividly to life. At this event, Burton will share insights about her novel, and Susie Rogers and Kevin Mulvany, who trained as art historians, will discuss their creative process in making the miniatures used in the television series.
6:30 p.m.: Enjoy a tour of 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings and other decorative arts that resonate with themes in The Miniaturist.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $75.00 / $60.00 / $50.00 / $45.00 / $40.00 / $35.00 / $25.00

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INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: December 19, 2018 9:38 AM to March 21, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Location: Moody Performance Hall
The World of Musicals brings the very best of musical theater to life. This captivating production is an emotional journey through the great world of musicals that will leave the audience spellbound. With beautiful ballads from Evita, Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera, along with upbeat favorites from Dirty Dancing, We Will Rock You, and Mamma Mia, there is something in this show for everyone. This is a show for the entire family, so get ready to be enthralled and sing along to all your favorite musicals in one unforgettable evening. The audience will also vote in advance to select a few numbers that they want to hear!

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $40.00
STUDENT: $20.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: December 18, 2018 3:52 PM to March 26, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
A hysterical dramedy about a family in crisis after the disappearance of its brilliant, misanthropic matriarch, Maria Semple’s breakout novel Where’d You Go Bernadette spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list, and will soon be a major motion picture by director Richard Linklater starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, and Judy Greer. At this event, Semple will discuss the fiction to film process, shedding light on the upcoming film adaptation, as well as on her own television writing career. She has written for Ellen, Mad About You, Arrested Development, and other shows. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Los Angeles Times.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $40.00
STUDENT: $20.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: December 18, 2018 3:51 PM to April 1, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
“Compelling stories and passionate acting, all literally from the heart of Texas.” —Southern Living-+

Rosaura Cruz, Executive Director of Junior Players, will read “Go Boom” by Elizabeth Hamilton. Lydia Mackay, Assistant Professor of Performance in the Theatre Department at TCU, will read “Survivor Honeymoon” by Amanda Eyre Ward. The evening will also feature Brad Leland of Friday Night Lights and Deep Water Horizon reading “The Dead Languages” by William Humphrey.

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Join fellow bibliophiles for lunch in the DMA’s Founders Room as you enjoy thoughtful conversation about Madeline Miller’s bestseller Circe. The New York Times effused that “Circe [is] a bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story that manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right.” Dr. Jaina Sanga, author, literary scholar, and Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities, will facilitate the conversation and lead the group discussion.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $40.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00
VIP PUBLIC: $130.00
VIP DMA MEMBER: $110.00
VIP EDUCATOR: $110.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR / VIP PUBLIC / VIP DMA MEMBER / VIP EDUCATOR Public Onsale: January 10, 2019 2:15 PM to April 9, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
This event will pair two powerful authors for a festive evening of Greek art, myth, travel, and food! With vivid characters, poetic language, and page-turning suspense, Madeline Miller’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel Circe is a triumph of storytelling featuring the Odyssey’s most infamous female figure; it’s an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, love, and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man’s world. Mary Norris, the beloved “Comma Queen” of The New Yorker’s copy department, returns with a witty, wise, and charming book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea of Greece. Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen is an unforgettable account of both her life-long love affair with words and her solo adventures to the land of ouzo and olive trees.
6:30 p.m.: Enjoy a pre-event tour of works from Greece in the DMA’s collection.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $30.00
STUDENT: $20.00
DMA MEMBER: $25.00
EDUCATOR: $25.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: December 18, 2018 3:45 PM to April 14, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
In Susan Choi’s new novel Trust Exercise, what happens in one highly competitive performing arts high school reverberates through lives—and across generations. Captivating, tender, and surprising, Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, friendships and loyalties, and the wise capacities of adolescents and the powers and responsibilities of adults. Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger is a suspenseful exploration of female friendship, love, and parenthood bonds. Two friends, once on similar academic career paths in science, drifted apart after one abandons a potentially brilliant career in academia, in part because of unwanted attention from a star professor. Both authors are recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships and PEN awards.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $40.00
STUDENT: $20.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00
VIP PUBLIC: $130.00
VIP DMA MEMBER: $110.00
VIP EDUCATOR: $110.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR / VIP PUBLIC / VIP DMA MEMBER / VIP EDUCATOR Public Onsale: December 18, 2018 3:43 PM to April 17, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
In The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table, Rick Bragg preserves his southern heritage by telling the stories that framed his mother’s cooking and education, from childhood to old age. This New York Times bestseller includes 74 mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern dishes in a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and especially, to his mother. Helen Ellis, the bestselling author of American Housewife, is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady. Ann Pachett loved Southern Lady Code saying, “As a Southern Lady myself, I cannot only confirm the veracity of the facts, I can tell you the book made me laugh like a hyena.”

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $30.00
STUDENT: $20.00
DMA MEMBER: $25.00
EDUCATOR: $25.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: December 18, 2018 3:34 PM to April 23, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
In An American Marriage by New York Times bestselling author Tayari Jones, newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. When Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit, she becomes unmoored and seeks comfort from a childhood friend and best man at their wedding. An Oprah’s Book Club selection, An American Marriage is a stirring love story that delves deep into the hearts and souls of three people who must reckon with the past while moving forward—with hope and pain—into the future.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK PUBLIC: $75.00
SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK DMA MEMBER: $70.00
SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK WAC MEMBER: $70.00
SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK EDUCATOR: $70.00
SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK STUDENT: $65.00
SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK PUBLIC: $55.00
SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK DMA MEMBER: $50.00
SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK WAC MEMBER: $50.00
SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK EDUCATOR: $50.00
SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK STUDENT: $45.00

TICKET SALE DATES
SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK PUBLIC / SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK DMA MEMBER / SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK WAC MEMBER / SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK EDUCATOR / SIMULCAST 2 TICKET + 1 BOOK STUDENT / SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK PUBLIC / SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK DMA MEMBER / SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK WAC MEMBER / SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK EDUCATOR / SIMULCAST 1 TICKET + 1 BOOK STUDENT Public Onsale: February 20, 2019 5:11 PM to April 24, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
In partnership with World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth
Location: Temple Emanu-El
The Second Mountain by New York Times columnist David Brooks is a thought-provoking commentary on the rampant individualism that has become the defining ethos of our culture. Brooks explores what it means to lead a meaningful life, suggesting that the first mountain an individual faces is about building up the ego, defining the self, and striving for success; the second mountain is about shedding the ego, planting yourself amid those who need, and giving yourself away. Brooks has spent more than five years thinking about how to give life meaning after worldly success failed to fulfill. This new book is the product of his personal quest for a joyful life.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $85.00 / $75.00 / $65.00 / $55.00 / $45.00 / $35.00

TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: December 18, 2018 3:38 PM to May 1, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Promotional Partner: KERA
Beloved satirist David Sedaris returns for his tenth consecutive year with Arts & Letters Live to share new and unpublished essays, imparting his incisive social critiques and sharing his sardonic wit with devoted fans. Hailed as the “rock star of writers,” Sedaris has become one of America’s preeminent humor writers, with bestselling books such as Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays including Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.
DMA Members enjoyed pre-sale access. DMA Member discounts are not offered for this program.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC: $75.00
TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER: $65.00
TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR: $65.00
TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: STUDENT: $55.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC: $50.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER: $45.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR: $45.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: STUDENT: $40.00

TICKET SALE DATES
TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC / TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER / TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR / TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: STUDENT / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: STUDENT Public Onsale: December 18, 2018 3:37 PM to May 3, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Location: Fellowship Dallas
Melinda Gates’s inspiring debut The Moment of Lift traces her awakening to the link between women’s empowerment and the health of societies. One thing has become increasingly clear to her: if you want to lift a society up, invest in women. Gates introduces us to her heroes in the movement toward equality, offers startling data, and shares moving conversations she’s had with women from all over the world. A personal statement of passionate conviction, she traces her evolution from a partner working behind the scenes to one of the world’s foremost advocates for women, driven by the belief that all lives have equal value, and gender equity is the lever that lifts everything.

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Join other book lovers for lunch in the DMA’s Boardroom and enjoy stimulating conversation about David Brooks’s latest book, The Second Mountain, his deeply personal exploration of what it means to lead a joyful life. Brooks spent more than five years thinking about how to give life meaning after worldly success failed to fulfill him, and his book shares insights into the perils of the rampant individualism that has become the defining ethos of our culture. Rabbi David Stern, Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, will facilitate the conversation and lead the group discussion.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $40.00
STUDENT: $20.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: December 18, 2018 3:36 PM to May 13, 2019 8:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Location: First United Methodist Church
Esteemed scientist and historian Jared Diamond presents a brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others do not. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis reveals how seven countries have successfully survived defining upheavals in the recent past through a process of painful self-appraisal and adaptation, and identifies patterns in the way that these distinct nations recovered from calamity. Looking ahead to the future, Diamond investigates whether the United States and the world are squandering their natural advantages, on a path toward political conflict and decline. Diamond won a Pulitzer Prize for his internationally bestselling book Guns, Germs, and Steel.