TBAAL recognizes the significance and importance of Arts-and-Education in American education. Our performances and programs are presented to students, year round, throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan areas.
EDUCATION PROGRAMS
September 2024 – August 2025
SEPTEMBER 2024
GALLERY EXHIBITION
“Building from Scratch . . . Sustaining the Legacy of an Institution and Its People”
Saturday, September 21, 2024 – Saturday, August 30, 2025
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am – 6pm
Saturday, Noon-4pm
James E. Kemp Gallery
Donations Accepted
For eighteen successive seasons, this exhibit of rare photographs, film footage, oral histories, celebrity memorabilia, archival ephemera, institutional documents and four Emmy-Award statues, chronicles the cultural and artistic contributions made by African American artists and scholars who have and continue to support TBAAL’s evolution.
NOVEMBER
AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA IN BLACK AND WHITE
BLACK CINEMA THRILLERS
A Two-Part Screening Thriller Movie Series #1
Saturday, 9 @ 12:30pm
Room T-314
$5 – Screening and Talk Back
Both films, presented in this two-part series, are only a smidgeon of the great Black Thriller films that exist in the American cannon of Motion Picture.
FALL SCREENING SERIES PART ONE OF TWO
12:30p -2:00p “COTTON COMES TO HARLEM
Harlem’s African American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Dee O’Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa.
2:15-4:15pm “US”
A family of four travels to their summer home on a fourth of July weekend, only to find that evil doppelganger versions of themselves are there for more than a friendly visit.
AUDIENCE TALK BACK FOLLOWING LAST SCREENING
SUNDAY EVENING THEATRE
STAGE READING OF YOUNG NEW AFRICAN AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS
“MASQUERADED TRUTHS” BY THEOLIA BATISTE
DILLARD UNIVERSITY
Sunday, 10 @ 5 pm
Clarence Muse Café Theatre
$ pay what you can
Sisters Ava and Ivy have built an underground organization that protects immigrant children from deportation, aided by legal officials.
DECEMBER 2024
ARTS-AND-EDUCATION
PERFORMING ARTS MATTER with seven DallasISD schools.
A 12-week after-school extended learning experience to allow students to train in performing arts: music, dance and theater by professional artists.
Monday, December 3, 2024, through Thursday, February 27, 2025
PROMISING YOUNG ARTIST SERIES
31st ANNUAL CHRISTMAS/KWANZAA CONCERT
Friday, 13 @ 10am
Student Morning Performance
$5
Saturday, 14 @ 8pm
Public Performance
Naomi Bruton Main Stage
$10
A night of hymns, spirituals, gospel, and classical music, this annual holiday music celebration features 300 young voices from Dallas high schools, with special guests from CHARLES RICE and DUNBAR elementary, along with the incomparable BARACK OBAMA BAND.
PROMISING YOUNG ARTISTS
“THE BEATZ” CONCERT
Featuring Boys With Talent aka BWT
Friday, 20 & Saturday, 21 @ 8pm
Clarence Muse Café Theatre
$10
Seven young performing artist rappers, from the public and private schools, create their own beat.
JANUARY 2025
42nd ANNUAL FOUR-TIME EMMY WINNING BLACK MUSIC AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT CONCERT
A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friday, 17 @ 10am
Student Morning Performance
TBAAL Naomi Bruton Theatre
$5
Celebrating over four decades with four EMMY awards, this concert tribute dramatizes and reflects on the moments and memories of the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in America’s present environment of today.
FEBRUARY
IT’S LITerature: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY AUTHOR’S SERIES
Saturday, 1 – Friday, 28
For twenty-eight days, twenty-eight books will be chosen to be a part of this special literary author’s series. The series is designed for high school and college students to select one of the twenty-eight books to read and write an essay about their chosen book at the conclusion of the twenty-eighth day. The essays will be judged by a distinguished panel of scholars and the four winning essays, two from each of the high schools and colleges, will be presented with a cash prize.
DRESS PERFORMANCE THEATRE SERIES
“FLY”
Written by and Starring Joseph Lewis Edwards
Friday, 7 @ 10am
Student Morning Performance
Friday, 7 & Saturday, 8
8:15pm nightly & 3pm Matinee
Clarence Muse Café Theatre
$10
Originally hailed Off-Broadway at New York’s American Place Theater, this mesmerizing solo journey of a Black man convinced he will receive the power to fly on the night of a special celestial event that will send transforming energy to Earth.
20TH ANNUAL WEEKEND FESTIVAL OF BLACK DANCE
RHYTHM AND SOUL OF A PEOPLE
Student Morning Performances
Thursday, 20 & Friday, 21 @ 10am
$5
ATLANTA DANCE CONNECTION returns by popular demand for the sixth consecutive season with the BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS DANCE ENSEMBLE, premiering three new works, in an evening of modern dance.
ARTS-AND-EDUCATION
PERFORMING ARTS MATTER FINALE
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Naomi Bruton Main Stage
Free to the Public
Three hundred students from seven DallasISD schools, Adelle Turner, Jimmie Brashear, Charles Rice, Ronald McNair, Mark Twain, Birdie Alexander, and Harold L. Lang, shine in performing arts matter finale. Supported by DallasISD.
MARCH
THIS PROGRAM IS EDITED ON 7/22/2024
COFFEE, COCKTAILS AND CONVERSATION
An Evening with Two Iconic Broadway Tony Award Winners
Melba Moore and Jennifer Holliday
Saturday, 8 @ 8pm
Naomi Bruton Main Stage
$15 Orchestra Level
$10 Mezzanine Level
$10 Student
$50 VIP Backstage Meet-and-Greet and Reserved Seating
Meet-and-Greet, 6:30-7:30pm
Two of America’s most respected, iconic and Broadway Tony Award winning actresses, MELBA MOORE and JENNIFER HOLLIDAY, share straightforward, memorable and intimate moments of the ups and downs of their careers as African American women in theatre, television and film.
AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA IN BLACK AND WHITE
BLACK CINEMA THRILLERS
A Two-Part Screening Thriller Movie Series #2
Saturday, 22 @ 12:30am
Room T-314
$5 – Screening and Talk Back
A continuing part of the Black Cinema Thriller screening series, almost three decades between the releasing of these two presented films, both directors, NIA DACOSTA and TATE TAYLOR, found a common thread to capture various subject matters that appeal to African Americans sensibilities.
FALL SCREENING SERIES PART TWO OF TWO
12:30p -2:00p “CANDYMAN”
Helen, a grad student, is researching folklore and urban legends when she learns about Candyman, a villain with a hook for his hand.
2:15-4:00pm “MA”
A middle-aged woman who becomes a friend with a group of teenagers lets them conduct a party in her basement. The party started as a great way for teens to have fun without dealing with their parents.
AUDIENCE TALK BACK FOLLOWING LAST SCREENING
APRIL
ENCORE SERIES
DRESS PERFORMANCE THEATRE SERIES
“THE CROSS, THE CRUCIFIXION”
Written and directed by Curtis King
Friday, 11 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, 12 @ 3pm matinee
Naomi Bruton Main Stage
$10
A contemporary dramatization of this Easter musical production is a pageantry about Jesus’ crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection.
MAY
15th ANNUAL BUDDING ROSE CONCERT
Promising Young Artists Series
Friday, 2 @ 10am
Student Morning Performance
$5
Saturday, 3 @ 7:30pm
Public Performance
Naomi Bruton Main Stage
$10
Three-hundred young budding singers from Dallas’ elementary and middle schools render a solid variety repertoire of classical, pop, Broadway, spiritual and gospel music selections.
PROMISING YOUNG ARTISTS SERIES
“AMAZING GRACE” CONCERT
Featuring Carlyn Knight and Anya Guidry
Friday, 16 & Saturday, 17 @ 8pm
Naomi Bruton Main Stage
$10
Vocalists CARLYN KNIGHT and ANYA GUIDRY are two of the brightest young artists on the music horizon. They will perform multiple genres of cover tunes.
JUNE
40th ANNUAL SUMMER YOUTH ARTS INSTITUTE
CLASSES: Monday, 9 – Saturday, 28 @ 9am to 5pm
Institute Registration Fee: $175
PERFORMANCES: Friday, 27 @ 8pm & Saturday, 28 @ 1pm & 4pm
Performance: $5
More than 400 youth ages 10-18 take crash courses in Music, Dance, Theatre, Costume Design, Make-Up, Lighting, Stage Management, Photography and Film/Video. The institute culminates with the large full-scale theatrical production, “THE PRODUCERS! HITS OF BLACK MUSIC” A REVUE.
PROMISING YOUNG ARTIST SERIES
“YOUTH UNPLUGGED” Concert
Featuring Jeffrey Berry and Kellison Cumby
Friday, 13 & Saturday,14 @ 8pm
Naomi Bruton Main Stage
$10
A mixed-bag summer music jam featuring two of TBAAL’s star vocalists, perform an evening of fan-favorites and cover tunes combined with their own originals.
JULY
INTENSIVE PERFORMING ARTS SUMMER STOCK
TRAINING PROGRAM WITH THE MASTERS
CLASSES: Monday, 14 – Friday, 25 @ 10am to 4pm
Institute Registration Fee: $200
FINALE PERFORMANCE: Friday, 25 @ 7pm
Free
Seventy-five selected students who wish to further their careers in the performing arts: music, theatre, and dance, participate in this special training program with master artists and professional practitioners.
