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

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STUDENT / PUBLIC / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: January 30, 2020 1:18 PM to February 24, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
"Compelling stories and passionate acting, all literally from the heart of Texas." -Southern Living
Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Allison Tolman of Fargo and Emergence will read "Museum" by Naomi Shihab Nye and "And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane" by Jenny Lawson. Christie Vela, Associate Director of Theatre Three and a Kitchen Dog Theater company member, will read "Puro Amor" by Sandra Cisneros. Ruben Carrazana, acclaimed actor, director, and writer, will read "Art of Translation" by Benjamin Alire Saenz. Directed by Tina Parker, Co-Artistic Director, Kitchen Dog Theater.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $35.00
STUDENT: $30.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00

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PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to February 28, 2020 1:45 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Join fellow book lovers for lunch in the DMA's Cook Boardroom as you enjoy the opportunity to delve more deeply into Anne Boyd Rioux's examination of the enduring legacy of Little Women in her bookMeg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters. The conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Randi Tanglen, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Gender Studies Program, and Director of the Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching at Austin College. Please note that this is a book discussion, not an author event.

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

TICKET SALE DATES
STUDENT / PUBLIC / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to March 8, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
In The Night Watchman, a new novel based on the extraordinary life of her grandfather, National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich explores themes of love and death with gravity, depth of feeling, sly humor, and elegant prose. Thomas Wazhashk is the factory night watchman who carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, DC. Fellow Chippewa and plant worker Pixie Paranteau is saving every penny to support her mother and brother; she makes a fateful trip to Minnesota to search for her sister, Vera, who has disappeared. Erdrich's memorable characters grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature.

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

TICKET SALE DATES
STUDENT / PUBLIC / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to March 10, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
From Man Booker Prize winner Anne Enright comes the brilliant and moving novel Actress, a story of celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. Katherine O'Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother's celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets-both her mother's and her own. When her mother commits a bizarre crime as a result of her slipping grip on reality, Norah comes to understand the destructive love that binds an actress to her audience.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC: $35.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER: $30.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR: $30.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: STUDENT: $30.00
VIP PUBLIC: $50.00
VIP DMA MEMBER: $45.00
VIP EDUCATOR: $40.00
VIP STUDENT: $40.00
JA VIP: $40.00

TICKET SALE DATES
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: STUDENT / VIP PUBLIC / VIP DMA MEMBER / VIP EDUCATOR / VIP STUDENT Public Onsale: November 19, 2019 10:00 AM to March 17, 2020 10:30 PM
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: STUDENT / VIP PUBLIC / VIP DMA MEMBER / VIP EDUCATOR / VIP STUDENT / JA VIP Public Onsale: February 14, 2020 3:45 PM to March 17, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Written with grace and understanding and based on more than 20 in-depth interviews and stories, as well as personal reflections from Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt herself, The Gift of Forgiveness is about one of the most difficult challenges in life-learning to forgive. The book features experiences from those well known and unknown, including Elizabeth Smart, who learned to forgive her captors; Sue Klebold, whose son Dylan was one of the Columbine shooters, learning empathy and how to forgive herself; and Schwarzenegger Pratt's challenges and path to forgiveness in her own life.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
STUDENT: $20.00
PUBLIC: $40.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00
THE BLACK ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS MEMBER: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
STUDENT / PUBLIC / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR / THE BLACK ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS MEMBER Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to March 24, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
In partnership with The Black Academy of Arts & Letters

In September 1969, a church deacon shuffles into the courtyard of a housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, the first novel fromJames McBride since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters affected by the shooting-caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York-overlap in unexpected ways.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC: $45.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER: $42.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR: $42.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: STUDENT: $42.00

TICKET SALE DATES
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR / ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: STUDENT Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to March 30, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Location: First United Methodist Church
Erik Larson, master of narrative nonfiction, delivers The Splendid and the Vile, a compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless." Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports, Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year, transporting readers to a time of true leadership, when-in the face of unrelenting horror-Churchill's eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together. Larson's bestselling books include The Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $35.00
STUDENT: $30.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to April 2, 2020 3:45 AM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Join fellow book lovers for lunch in the DMA's Cook Boardroom as you enjoy the opportunity to delve more deeply into Louise Erdrich'snew book about Native politics in the 1950s, The Night Watchman. The conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Jaina Sanga, who is the author of three works of fiction and a literary scholar who serves on the Board of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture; she is also a Fellow of the Institute. Please note that this is a book discussion, not an author event.

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

TICKET SALE DATES
STUDENT / PUBLIC / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to April 6, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Selected by President Obama in 2013 as the fifth inaugural poet in US history, Richard Blanco is the youngest and the first Latino, first immigrant, and first gay person to serve in the role. Blanco characterizes the negotiation of cultural identity, community, and belonging in his award-winning poetry. His most recent collection, How to Love a Country, interrogates the American narrative and celebrates the still unkept promise of its ideals. In celebration of the DMA's new exhibition My|gration in the Center for Creative Connections, Blanco will debut an original commissioned poem inspired by a work of art in the collection.

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STUDENT: $20.00
PUBLIC: $40.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00
DH AND HR MUSEUM MEMBER: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
STUDENT / PUBLIC / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR / DH AND HR MUSEUM MEMBER Public Onsale: November 19, 2019 10:00 AM to April 14, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
I Want You to Know We're Still Here, a poignant memoir by Esther Safran Foer, is her account of growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust, a tragedy that loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. When Foer learns that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust, she travels to the Ukraine, armed with only a black-and-white photo and hand-drawn map, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid to survive during the war.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PUBLIC: $35.00
STUDENT: $30.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to April 16, 2020 2:45 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Join fellow book lovers for lunch in the DMA's Cook Boardroom as you enjoy the opportunity to delve more deeply into Colum McCann's sweeping tour de force Apeirogon. The conversation will be facilitated by Rabbi David Stern, Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and head of the international rabbinic organization of the Reform Movement. Please note that this is a book discussion, not an author event.

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

TICKET SALE DATES
STUDENT / PUBLIC / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to April 21, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Paulette Jiles, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women, returns to Texas in this atmospheric story. Set at the end of the Civil War, Simon the Fiddler chronicles the life of an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart. Told in Jiles's trademark spare yet lilting style, the book is a captivating, bittersweet tale of the chances a devoted man will take and the lengths he will go to fulfill his heart's yearning.

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

TICKET SALE DATES
STUDENT / PUBLIC / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to April 28, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
National Book Award winner Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives. Their worlds shift irreparably after their young daughters are killed- Abir by a rubber bullet and Smadar the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn of each other's stories, they recognize the loss that connects them and attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace.

TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC: $80.00
TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER: $75.00
TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR: $75.00
TWO TICKETS + ONE BOOK: STUDENT: $70.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: PUBLIC: $55.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: DMA MEMBER: $50.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: EDUCATOR: $50.00
ONE TICKET + ONE BOOK: STUDENT: $45.00
VIP PUBLIC: $65.00
VIP DMA MEMBER: $60.00
VIP EDUCATOR: $60.00

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 / VIP PUBLIC / VIP DMA MEMBER / VIP EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to May 4, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Location: First United Methodist Church
"I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus." So begins the new novel from Sue
Monk Kidd, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings. The Book of Longings is an extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny in a time of great despair and great hope. Raised in a wealthy family, Ana is rebellious and ambitious, a seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. Defying the expectations placed on women, she engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes secret narratives about neglected and silenced women. When she meets the 18-year-old Jesus, each is drawn to and enriched by the other's spiritual and philosophical ideas. He becomes a floodgate for her intellect, but also awakens her heart. Sue Monk Kidd says, "I wanted to portray Jesus as fully human. Writing from a novelist's perspective and not a religious one, I was drawn to his humanity, which can often be overlooked. Ana wandered into my imagination and I couldn't ignore her."

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

TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: November 19, 2019 10:27 AM to May 11, 2020 10:30 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Promotional Partner: KERA
Beloved satirist David Sedaris returns for his eleventh 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
PUBLIC: $35.00
STUDENT: $30.00
DMA MEMBER: $30.00
EDUCATOR: $30.00

TICKET SALE DATES
PUBLIC / STUDENT / DMA MEMBER / EDUCATOR Public Onsale: November 21, 2019 10:00 AM to May 20, 2020 1:45 PM

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Join fellow book lovers for lunch in the DMA's Cook Boardroom as you enjoy the opportunity to delve more deeply into Sue Monk Kidd's The Book of Longings,, a meticulously researched yet imaginative new novel set during the life and times of Jesus in 1st-century Nazareth. Kidd focuses on Jesus's humanity, which is often overlooked, and tells the story of Ana, a seeker with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit; Jesus becomes a floodgate for her intellect and awakens her heart, and she becomes his wife. The conversation will be facilitated by Kathleen Kent, the author of three bestselling and award-winning historical novels, as well as The Dime and The Burn, contemporary crime novels set in Dallas. Please note that this is a book discussion, not an author event.