Big fun happens just about everywhere in DFW, especially during the holiday season. Ready? Sue Krider is Dallas’s high-rise real estate expert who keeps her finger on the pulse around town when it comes to lights, cameras, and action. Check out Sue’s a curated selection of unique holiday performances, as well as special events in Dallas around the region.
On December 1, the Parade of Lights struts down Main Street in Grapevine. Since its inaugural year in 1979, the annual event has been billed as the largest lighted Christmas parade in North Texas.
One hundred-plus-men from all walks of life join in song as The Vocal Majority on December 1-2 and 4 at the Eisemann Center in Richardson to produce a diverse musical repertoire that spans from sacred to patriotic, jazz, pop, and Christmas.
Langston Hughes’ foot-stomping, toe-tapping, finger-snapping holiday favorite, Black Nativity at the Bishop Arts Theater, December 1-18, is a moving experience filled with gospel music.
Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith perform Christmas music and other catalog favorites on December 2 in Music Hall at Fair Park.
Step inside the historic Alexander Mansion on Ross Avenue, decked out in all of its splendor, for the Holiday Home Tour & Bistro Lunch a true holiday tradition and wonderful way to spread Christmas joy, December 2-4.
December 2-11 Christmas Pops features a variety of seasonal set-ups with talented Dallas Symphony musicians, choral groups, and other performers just right for a Christmas celebration at the Meyerson Symphony Center.
With the panache of a Broadway musical, the show features stunning special effects, a massive cast, flying angels, live animals and more, The Gift of Christmas is December 2-11 at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano brings the greatest story ever told to life.
The Dallas Holiday Parade steps off in Downtown on December 3 with large, colorful floats, marching bands and a visit from St. Nick himself, the parade has signaled the opening of the season since the late 1980s.
Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with the jubilant sounds of the Richardson Symphony and the First United Methodist Church Richardson Chancel Choir on December 3 at the Eisemann Center.
The spirit of Charles Dickens comes alive in a free annual event nestled in the heart of the Plano Arts District with a real snow slide, food, fun, shopping, and photos with Santa. Dickens in Downtown Plano’s Haggard Park, December 3.
Ricki Derek’s Merry Little Christmas concerts are always a kick, with a smooth as smoky Scotch delivery, the Dallas big band crooner presents his bevy of holiday tunes to the Granada Theater on Greenville Avenue on December 3.
The world-famous Canadian Brass has been making spirits bright for 50 years and counting, including this one-night-only performance of festive seasonal classics on December 5 at the Meyerson Symphony Center.
For something hilariously off the rails, the Pope of Trash brings his combustion of incorrect Christmas kindling designed to blaze into a glorious nut-case Noel fire from hell. It’s a John Waters Christmas, December 6 at Oak Cliff’s historic Kessler Theater.
From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the wives of Henry VIII remix 500 years of historical heartbreak into a celebration of 21st century girl power in Six, The Musical, December 6-25 at the Winspear Opera House
Various local business leaders are featured alongside world class musicians in various roles including conductor, narrator, percussionist, and more on December 7 at C-Suite Christmas with the Dallas Symphony in the Meyerson Symphony Center
Celebrate the season on December 7 with Cowtown’s yearly Christmas in the Stockyards on the veranda of the Historical Livestock Exchange Building, inside Stockyards Station and along East Exchange Avenue in Fort Worth.
Celtic Angels Christmas is a joyous celebration that features vocal and instrumental holiday favorites and traditional Irish songs, paired with world class champion dancing and a live band, December 8 at the Arlington Music Hall.
A terrific concert for the entire family features new arrangements of old favorites, all focused on keeping spirits bright for the holiday season when the Irving Symphony performs at the Irving Arts Center on December 10
The Tim Allen stars in a free screening of the seasonal feel-good movie, “The Santa Clause,” on December 10 at Klyde Warren Park, Dallas’s favorite urban green space.
On December 13, the Dallas Symphony presents A Soulful Christmas at the Meyerson Symphony Center, and inspirational event perfect for the holidays featuring Mervyn Warren, Norman Miller, Steven Ford, and the vocal ensemble Take 6.
Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the irrepressible gang from Peanuts are back onstage celebrating as only they know how. A Charlie Brown Christmas is December 13 at the Majestic Theater.
The moving one-man show tells the story of how Christmas came to mean so much to author C.S. Lewis, a former atheist laced with the author’s trademark insight and humor. Christmas with C.S. Lewis is December 14-17 at the Eisemann Center in Richardson.
Presented by Lone Star Circus, A Merry Cirque has daredevils, jugglers, acrobats, and hilarious clowns, all in a colorful holiday format December 15-18 at the Coppell Arts Center.
The Nutty Nutcracker is Sir Ben Stevenson’s sensational seasonal nod to the crazy, and the zany, an annual parody designed for big laughs by the Texas Ballet Theater on December 16 at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth
The unforgettable Christmas saga “Home Alone” has grown into a seasonal classic over the years. Catch the DSO performing the soundtrack to picture on an HD screen December 16-19 at the Meyerson Symphony Center
Dallas native Michael Martin Murphey brings his annual seasonal concert series to town telling the story of a century of renowned Cowboy’s Christmas Ball events in tiny Anson, Texas, December 18 at Texas Trust CU Theatre in Grand Prairie.
Visions of sugarplums will surely be dancing as The Dallas Winds ring in the holidays on December 21 with Christmas at the Meyerson for all your Yuletide favorites — fun for the whole family.
The new edition of the 1741 original version of Handel’s Messiah on December 22 at the Meyerson Symphony Center, includes a brilliant quartet of soloists performing with the acclaimed Dallas Bach Orchestra and Chorus.
Relive childhood dreams, overflowing with larger-than-life puppets, and breath-taking acrobatics in dazzling costumes performed by an international cast in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker on December 26 in the Music Hall at Fair Park.
Musical ringmaster Tim DeLaughter brings is choir-robed singers and musicians to the stage at one of Downtown Dallas’s favorite venues for a family Christmas show. It’s the annual Polyphonic Spree Holiday Extravaganza December 17 at the Majestic Theatre.
The acclaimed Trans-Siberian Orchestra winter tours are a multi-generational holiday tradition with awesome effects, and staging elements blended into an all-new holiday blitz. The ensemble performs two shows (afternoon and evening) on December 28 at the American Airlines Center
Bid a fond farewell to 2022, and ring in 2023 with favorite Strauss waltzes and Viennese-inspired revelry (with a midnight toast) in the Meyerson with the Dallas Symphony on New Year’s Eve.
Take it from Sue, holiday fun is all over DFW this season. For more information on top high-rise properties in Dallas, and a continuing flow of information on the market, community happenings and special things to see and do, check with her at SueKrider.com now.