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Urie OUT Texas Actor
carrying a ‘Torch’
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Michael Urie: Theatre Group in Los Angeles. But first,
he took a few minutes to chat with OUT
But it hasn’t lost its impact.
Texas native talks 'Torch Song' North Texas about Torch Song, the so-called “What Arnold’s striving for [in Torch Song]
and LGBT history dangers of playing gay characters and what — marriage equality, to be a father, to
you have to do when you visit North Texas. have the same kind of life his mother had
even though he’s a gay man — he wasn’t
When the first staging of Harvey Fierstein’s play began with the first staging advocating for everyone to do that [when
Fierstein’s Tony Award-winning Torch Song of International Stud, the first installment of he wrote the plays]. He was just saying
Trilogy opened at New York City’s Richard the trilogy, in 1978 at the Off-Off- they should have the option,” Urie said. “At
Allen Center, in October 1981,“it blew Broadway theater, La the time, that idea was quite radical. It blew
people’s minds” that a gay man would be MaMa, people’s minds that someone would be
fighting for a chance to be a husband and out there asking for those things. In 1982,
a father, to see a gay man that had adopted
a son was like science fiction. It was
exciting, but it was shocking, too.
“Now, we have marriage equality. Now
there are lots of ways for gay people to
have children. That doesn’t shock people
like it once did,” he continued.“But
what we’ve found that is still extremely
topical is the conversation Arnold has
with his mother in the third act — about
acceptance, about love and respect — and
the conversations he has with [his bisexual
lover] Ed about being true to himself, about
feeling respectful, feeling self-respectful.
“These conversations are absolutely still
happening all over the world,” Urie said.
“Sure, there are certain places where you
can see people living out and proud and
free. But there are lots of other places
where it’s still a real struggle. I have met so
many people, waiting at the stage door to
tell me that what Arnold talks about in this
nearly 40-year-old play still resonates with
their lives.”
E.T.C. It opened at the Off Broadway And that, Urie said, is why he feels it is so
Players Theatre later in May. important to take this Torch Song revival on
Part two, Fugue In A Nursery, was staged the road: to bring that message to people
to have a family and a life at La MaMa a year later, in February 1979. all across the country that need to hear that
like his mother had, actor Michael Urie Torch Song Trilogy — which included the affirmation.
said. third play, Widows and Children First! —
opened in October 1981, starring Fierstein “Yes, this is a totally different time from
Today, more than 35 years later, marriage himself as Arnold. The trilogy opened on 1982. We have the internet now, and social
equality is the law of the land, and LGBT Broadway in June 1982, winning two Tony media. There are lots of [LGBT people]
families are — almost — commonplace. Awards, two Drama Desk Awards and the on TV and in the movies,” he said.“But
And yet, Torch Song still resonates. Theatre World Award. sitting quietly in a theater, listening while
Urie, an openly-gay actor who was born the drama is playing out on stage where a
in Houston and grew up in Plano, just Fierstein adapted the trilogy for the big man is fighting for the right to be who he
finished a 103-performance run starring screen, and the movie version of Torch is — you can’t ignore that. You have to take
as drag queen Arnold Beckoff in Second Song Trilogy, starring Fierstein as Arnold, that in.
Stage’s revival of Torch Song on Broadway, along with Matthew Broderick and Anne
which followed an Off-Broadway run in Bancroft, opened in 1988. “If you go to the theater to find yourself,
the fall of 2017. you will find yourself in Torch Song.”
For the revival, Urie said, Fierstein has
Now Urie is gearing up to hit the road as trimmed the play down to about three Urie was born in Houston, but when
Arnold in a touring production of the show, hours.“It’s the same play, with all the same he was about 6 or 7, he said, he moved
set to start in the fall of this year at Center characters’ it just happens faster,” he said. with his family to Plano. He graduated
10 OUT north texas 2019from Plano Senior High School in 1998, “You don’t get typecast as ‘gay,” because if my generation is not diligent enough in
then attended Collin County Community there’s not just one kind of gay character,” learning what it was like then, or if maybe
College for a year before being accepted at Urie said.“I have been fortunate to play the generation that came before us has
the Julliard School and moving to New York many different gay characters, and no two tried to protect us, keep us from seeing
City at the age of 19. have been the same. I guess I have probably that horror they lived in. Or maybe they
played more gay characters than straight just don’t want to talk about it any more,”
Urie got his first big break in 2006 when he characters, but I haven’t been pigeon- Urie said.“When people come back from
was cast as Marc St. James, the gay assistant holed.” war, they often don’t want to talk about
to Vanessa Williams’ character, on the TV what they went through. It’s just too much
show Ugly Betty. He stayed with the show In December 2018, the Gay Men’s Health to go through it again. That night, Harvey
until it was cancelled in 2010. Crisis organization in New York honored read off all those names — Alvin Ailey,
Urie with its Howard Ashman Award in Keith Haring, Freddie Mercury, Leigh
Even though Marc St. James was openly recognition of “his contributions to the Bowery, and so many more who were cut
gay, at the time, Michael Urie was not, the LGBT community and the fight against down too soon.
actor said.“Privately, I was open about my HIV/AIDS.” For Urie, it was not only a
life and my sexuality,” he said.“But I was great honor, it was also a lesson in some “When you think about it, it makes you
not out of the closet publicly. Really, I had heartbreaking history. want to hold on tight and not stop working
no public persona at all then. I had done no — ever.”
interviews, and no one really cared about Ashman, he explained was the “great writer
my personal life.” and lyricist” perhaps best known for the
songs he wrote, with Alan Mencken, for By Tammye Nash
Still, as with many LGBT actors, there Disney movies like The Little Mermaid, nash@dallasvoice.com
was — and for many, there still is — “this Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. Ashman
fear of getting typecast. I mean, typecast died of AIDS in March 1991, just a couple
in general, but if you were typecast as gay, of months shy of his 41st birthday.
well then, that was it. You’d only get cast as
gay characters,” he said. The Ashman Award event was held
at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in
“That was a fear of mine,” Urie admitted. New York City, and “Harvey Fierstein
“But I have found out that’s not actually presented me with the award,” Urie
true.” said.
Urie said that while Ugly Betty was his first “First, though, he sang Ursula’s song
big break overall, his first big break on stage from The Little Mermaid, which is
came with the play The Temperamentals, and a song Howard Ashman wrote the
in it, too, he played a gay character. lyrics for,” he continued.“Ursula the
Sea Witch is based on Divine, from
The play told the story of the founding the John Waters movies, and Pat Carroll
of The Mattachine Society, the first did the voice. I don’t know if Howard
sustained LGBT rights organization, and Ashman knew it, but Alan Mencken had
the love affair between two of its founding always wanted Harvey Fierstein to sing
members, Harry Hay and Rudi Gernreich. the song, and Harvey sang it that night.
Urie played Gernreich, winning a Lucille And he was totally brilliant; he brought the
Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. house down.”
“That was a very big play for me,” Urie said, After singing though, Fierstein “talked
noting that the Mattachine Society was about Howard Ashman and his work. He
founded in 1950, nearly 20 years before talked about so many other wonderful
the Stonewall Riots. He also pointed out artists and creators whose lives were cut
that Gernreich, who worked as a fashion short by AIDS, imagining what we would
designer in Hollywood, ended up leaving have gotten from them if they had lived,”
the organization he helped found because Urie recalled.
his association with it was damaging his
career. “It was a hugely eye-opening
evening for me,” he
“Think about it: being gay was hurting his continued.“My
career in fashion!” Urie declared.“It’s hard generation is not ...
to believe that now, but it just goes to show getting cut down by
you what the ’50s were really like.” AIDS the way the
Taking on that second gay character generation before us
seemed like a huge gamble at the time, Urie was.
said. But, despite his fears of being typecast,
it turned out to be just the right move. “It makes me wonder
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running in the 2018 mid-term elections. Gonzales from El Paso for a record FIVE Campaigning as an open lesbian, Valdez
Dallas County’s former sheriff, Latina openly-LGBT lawmakers seated in the was a dark horse Democrat in the 2004
lesbian Lupe Valdez was one of them. Texas House of Representatives for the race for Dallas County sheriff, but she
While Valdez did not succeed in her bid to 86th Legislature in 2019. surprised everyone by winning and leading
oust Republican incumbent Greg Abbott, the way in turning Dallas County “bl;ue” for
she brought in nearly 43 percent of the The slate of LGBT candidates also included the first time in decades — maybe ever.
vote — an amazing feat for an openly- congressional candidate Lorie Burch and In 2016, Valdez hit the national stage when
LGBT Democrat in a state-wide race in state Senate candidate Mark Phariss, she was a prime-time featured speaker
such a deep red Republican stronghold. the two Democrats who came closer to at the Democratic National Convention,
Valdez’s campaign signaled a huge step winning and raised more money than and rumors that she was planning a run
forward for LGBT candidates — indeed, for Democrats have in forever in the GOP for higher office began to fly. But Valdez
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for that reason, Dallas Voice named Lupe transgender man Finn Jones, who launched when she resigned and officially declared
Valdez as our LGBT Texan of the year. a very credible campaign for the state her candidacy for governor.
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Valdez, a child of migrant Parker said Valdez connected to everyday
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college and earned a masters degree
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reached the rank of captain in bridges. She connected to kids facing
the U.S. National Guard before their own challenges. Win or lose, she was
becoming a federal agent inspirational.”
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San Francisco 3 hrs 30 mins
Seattle 4 hrs
Washington, D.C. 2 hrs 45 mins
OUT north texas 2019 19TWO GAYBORHOODS
Lots of big cities have a gayborhood, call it, everyone knows this is the place gayborhood a cowboy flavor, and Kroger’s
offering LGBT residents and visitors a place to go if you’re looking for the LGBT grocery store is as much a pick-up joint
where they know they can go to eat, drink, community. and meeting place as a market.
shop and play in a fun and gay-positive
environment. There’s The Castro in San Oak Lawn was once a dodgy neighborhood OAK CLIFF
Francisco and Chelsea in New York; South sandwiched between Downtown Dallas and Head southwest to find Oak Cliff,
Beach in Miami and Montrose in Houston. the Park Cities. But the in 1970s, the LGBT what was once one of the city’s toniest
Here in Dallas, we have TWO gayborhoods, community began moving in, gentrifying residential areas, but that had come to be
and one of the oldest — The Strip on the neighborhood and creating a gay mecca. seen as an area of high crime and poverty.
Cedar Springs in Oak Lawn — was voted These days, thanks to its proximity to Once again, the LGBT community stepped
Best Gayborhood in the U.S. in Out Highland Park, University Park and Uptown, in and led the way in restoring Oak Cliff
Traveler’s 2014 survey. The Oak Lawn Oak Lawn Avenue has become prime to its former glory, and the area has, over
gayborhood continues to grow, spreading real estate and one of the most desirable recent years, seen a resurgence in appeal
south to the Uptown area and west into addresses in town. — and an increase in rents. And still it
the Dallas Design District, while Bishop remains one of the most affordable — and
the most interesting — areas of town.
You can find all the trendiest
places to see and be seen, to The growth has been largely concentrated
shop and to live, including around the Bishop Arts District,
everything from markets surrounded by Davis and Bishop avenues.
such as EatZi’s to fancy Chief among the draws for this historically
restaurants like Al Biernat’s funky, artsy center are the restaurants and
and comfortable hangouts boutiques, many gay-owned.
like Lucky’s.
From Hattie’s to Veracruz Restaurant,
Arts District/Oak Cliff becomes Oak Lawn runs perpendicular to three there’s also the acclaimed Lucia restaurant,
ever more vibrant and inclusive. other busy drags: Lemmon Avenue, Cedar the Oak Cliff branch of the gay-popular
Springs Road and Maple Avenue, all of hamburger joint Hunky’s, and Tillman’s
OAK LAWN which claim their share of nightclubs and Roadhouse, designed by famed gay style
“The Crossroads” is one nickname for the gay-owned and -managed businesses. guru Todd Fiscus. The list is nearly endless,
intersection of Cedar Springs Road and as new shops create more and more
Throckmorton Street, there at the heart of Caven Enterprises owns four clubs along reasons for the gay community of Dallas to
Dallas’ oldest and largest gayborhood. It’s the Strip (JR.’s Bar & Grill, Sue Ellen’s, head south of the Trinity and call this place
also called “Oak Lawn,”“Cedar Springs” TMC: The Mining Company and Station home.
and “The Strip.” But regardless what you 4). The Round-Up Saloon gives the
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Urban Cowboy Saloon
LiquidZooSportsbar.com Changes 2620 E. Lancaster Ave.
Woody’s Sports 14 2637 E. Lancaster Ave.
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Marty’s Live 8 & Video Bar 817-413-2332
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4207 Maple Ave. 4011 Cedar Springs Road.
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OUT north texas 2019 21ENTERTAINMENT
DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT/ and films. It features a performance
CONTINENTAL AVENUE BRIDGE
KLYDE WARREN PARK pavillion, walking trails,
AND WEST DALLAS GATEWAY
Dallas’ Arts District is strung out along a dog park, a children’s park, a games area
109 Continental Ave.
Flora Street on the edge of downtown, and and more. The park is privately operated
DallasContinentalBridge.com
it features the world-renowned Winspear and managed by the Woodall Rodgers
Up until the opening of the Margaret
Opera House, the Wyly Theatre and the Park Foundation.
Hunt Hill Bridge, designed by Santiago
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.
Calatrava, the Continental Avenue Bridge
Add in the museums — The Nasher DALLAS CITY HALL
was the link between most of Dallas and
Sculpture Center, the Dallas Museum of 1500 Marilla St.
Dallas west of the Trinity River. Once
Art and the Trammell and Margaret Crow Dallas, 75201
the new Calatrava bridge was built, the
Collection of Asian Art, and Dallas has the 214-670-3011
Continental Avenue Bridge was closed
largest contiguous urban arts district DallasCityHall.com
and redesigned into a concrete park
in the country. This building, designed by I.M. Pei and
spanning the river. The bridge offers
completed in 1978, is the hub
active and passive play spaces,
Across Woodall Rogers Freeway, the Perot of city government services.
programmed activities and an up-close
Museum of Nature and Science adds
view of the river, Trinity Floodway and
another dimension to the cultural offerings DALLAS COUNTY
the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
along Flora Street. And over Woodall HISTORICAL PLAZA
Rogers, Klyde Warren Park offers a whole Market, Elm, Commerce
COTTON BOWL AT FAIR PARK
new angle on the idea of culture and urban and Houston streets
1300 Robert B. Cullum Blvd.
green space. Dallas, 75201
Dallas, 75210
214-571-1300
214-670-8400
Klyde Warren Park is a 5.2-acre deck park This plaza is marked by several historical
Located in Fair Park, the Cotton Bowl
designed by The Office of James Burnett buildings and monuments, including The
is home to the Southwestern
and built over the recessed Woodall Old Red Courthouse, John Neely Bryan
Cotton Bowl Classic.
Rodgers Freeway between Pearl and St. Cabin and the John F. Kennedy Memorial.
Paul streets. The park offers daily free
programming for the public, ranging from
yoga to lecture series to outdoor concerts
22 OUT north texas 2019DALLAS FARMERS MARKET birds such as scarlet ibis and toucans flying Hippo Outpost opened bringing hippos
& RESOURCE CENTER freely and the only public display of three- back to the zoo for the first time in 15
1010 S. Pearl Expressway toed sloths in the U.S., plus electric eels, years. The zoo also offers the Endangered
Dallas, 75201 caecilians, tamarins, poison dart frogs, Tiger Habitat, the Lacerte Family Children’s
214-939-2808 Orinoco crocodiles, and vampire bats. Zoo and the 36-acre Wilds of Africa, named
DallasFarmersMarket.org. The lower level houses aquaria featuring “Best African Exhibit in the U.S.,” with its
Established in 1941, the Dallas Farmers fish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and Giants of the Savanna Elephant Habitat.
Market is the district where farmers sell other sea animals from around the world. Giants of Savanna is the only multi-species
crops, from food to flowers, directly to zoo exhibit in the U.S. to mix elephants
customers, plus artisans and restaurants. DALLAS ZOO and other species in the same complex.
650 S. R.L. Thornton Freeway The Wilds of Africa exhibit also includes
DALLAS WORLD AQUARIUM Dallas, 75203 the Gorilla Trail, and the Adventure Safari
1801 N. Griffin St. 214-670-6826 through the six habitats of Africa, as well as
Dallas, 75202 DallasZoo.com the Don Glendenning Penguin Cove and
214-720-2224 The Dallas Zoo, the first zoo in the Predator Rock featuring lions and cheetahs.
DWAZoo.com Southwest, started in 1888 with two deer The zoo also offers free-flight bird
1801 N. Griffin St. in Dallas. and two mountain lions in City Park, then demonstrations daily with large African
Situated in an old warehouse in Dallas’ moved to Fair Park in 1909. By 1912, the species, such as crowned cranes.
West End, Dallas World Aquarium is a zoo had outgrown that location and moved
for-profit aquarium and zoo intended to Marsalis Park where it stands today. The
to aid conservation and education by Dallas Zoo is home to more than 2,000
housing many animals that are threatened animals. In spring 2017, the Simmons
or endangered as part of a cooperative
breeding program with other zoos around
the world.
The upper level is an artificial reproduction
of the Orinoco Rainforest, an aviary with
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FAIR OF TEXAS
1121 First Avenue
Dallas, 75210 | 214-426-3400
FairPark.org.
Dallas’ Fair Park, located just southeast of
downtown, is home to the annual Texas
State Fair, which runs from late September
into October each year and is the largest
state fair in the country. Fair Park, open
year-round, is linked by location to the
earliest state fair grounds, dating back to
1886. But most of the existing buildings
were constructed in the Art Deco style
specifically for the 1936 Exposition, which
celebrated the 100th anniversary of the
Texas Republic.
Today, Fair Park is the only intact and
unaltered pre-1950s world fair site
remaining in the U.S. The 227-acre
park, designated as a National Historic
Landmark in 1986, hosts more than 7
million visitors each year for the fair,
various sporting events and cultural
and entertainment events. Southeast
of Downtown Dallas, just off Interstate
30. Beginning this year, Fair Park will
also be home to the annual Dallas Pride KALITA HUMPHREYS THEATER PIONEER PLAZA
celebration the first weekend in June, 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. Griffin and Young streets
including the Miller Lite Music Festival and Dallas, 75219 Dallas, 75202 | 214-953-1184
the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade. Designed in the 1950s by architect Frank A 4.2-acre plaza featuring the world’s
Lloyd Wright. Home to the gay-centric largest bronze monument: 40 longhorn
GILLEY’S MUSIC COMPLEX Uptown Players. steers representing Texas’ cattle drives.
1135 S. Lamar St.
Dallas, 75215 | 214-421-2021 KAY BAILEY HUTCHINSON REUNION TOWER AT HYATT
GilleysMusic.com CONVENTION CENTER REGENCY DALLAS
Gilley’s Music Complex houses four music 650 S. Griffin St. 300 Reunion Blvd. East
venues: The Palladium Ballroom, the South Dallas, 75202 | 214-939-2700 Dallas, 75207 | 214-712-7145
Side Music Hall, The Loft and The Saloon. DallasConventionCenter.com. DallasRegencyHyatt.com
The Dallas Convention Center is one of the The landmark tower adjacent to the Hyatt
GREAT TRINITY FOREST/TRINITY largest in the nation. Regency Hotel offering a spectacular view
RIVER CORRIDOR from the observation deck on the 50th
TrinityRiverCorridor.com MCKINNEY AVENUE TROLLEY floor. Also home to Five Sixty, a revolving
Great Trinity Forest is perhaps the largest 3153 Oak Grove St. restaurant operated by famed chef
urban bottomland hardwood forest in Dallas, 75204 | 214-855-0006 Wolfgang Puck.
America. It is part of the Trinity River MATA.org
Corridor Project’s environmental and Historic trolleys connecting the downtown SIXTH FLOOR MUSEUM
recreational charter and extends from the Arts District with shops, restaurants, 411 Elm St.
Santa Fe Trestle Trail near Corinth Street galleries and boutiques in Uptown Dallas. Dallas
and Riverfront Boulevard, within view of Riding is free. JFK.org
downtown Dallas, to just past I-20, an 11-
mile stretch of land that basically follows MORTON H. MEYERSON JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL
the Trinity River. It includes the Trinity SYMPHONY CENTER 605 Commerce St.
Fields, encompassing MoneyGram Soccer 2301 Flora St. Dallas, 75202 | 214-571-1300
Park, California Crossing Boat Launch and Dallas, 75201 | 214-670-3600 For decades, Dallas battled against being
Elm Fork; Trinity Lakes, encompassing DallasSymphony.com known as the city where President John
Trinity Skyline Trails, Trammel Crow This I.M. Pei-designed concert hall is F. Kennedy was assassinated. Then civic
Park, Continental Avenue Bridge and one of the most acclaimed of its kind in leaders decided that instead of backing
West Dallas Gateway, Trinity Overlook North America. It has been an anchor away from history, they should explore it.
Park; and Big Spring, with a pavilion and performance hall in the Downtown Arts Thus was born the Sixth Floor Museum.
amphitheater connecting Moore Park and District for more than 25 years. Situated in the old School Book Depository
the Santa Fe Trestle Trail, the Dallas Wave, — the building from which Lee Harvey
Big Spring, Texas Horse Park, Texas Buckeye Oswald shot the president — the Sixth
Trail and more. Floor Museum chronicles the assassination
24 OUT north texas 2019TRINITY GROVES WHITE ROCK LAKE PARK
3011 Gulden Lane Near East Dallas off East Lawther Drive
Dallas, 75212 WhiteRockLake.org
TrinityGroves.com White Rock Lake Park, the crown jewel
Trinity Groves is a 15-acre site at the of Dallas’ park system, is an Audubon
western end of the Margaret Hunt Society-designated bird watching area and
Hill Bridge and the Continental Bridge wetlands site with numerous scenic picnic
offering restaurants, retail shops, arts and areas, two boat ramps, fishing piers where
entertainment, including the innovative anglers can catch catfish, sunfish and bass,
Trinity Groves Project Restaurant Concept and event facilities —Winfrey Point and
Incubator program that encourages chefs Big Thicket — available for rent. White
and restaurateurs to create and present Rock Lake, a 1,015-acre city lake, sits at the
unique restaurant concepts to a team of center of the park. The park is also home
experienced restaurateurs who will then to numerous special events, including the
support them to bring their ideas to reality. March of Dimes Walk for America White
On Singleton Ave. in Dallas, Rock Marathon and White Rock Lake Trash
just west of the Trinity River. Bash and a mysterious colony of monk
parakeets.
TRINITY RIVER
AUDUBON CENTER WINSPEAR OPERA HOUSE
6500 S. Great Trinity Forest Way 2303 Flora St.
Dallas, 75217 Dallas, 75201 | 214-443-1000
TrinityRiverAudubon.org ATTPAC.org
Open to the public on a reclaimed A 2,200-seat state-of-the-art opera
dumpsite and offering hiking trails, house designed by Norman Foster with a
KLYDE WARREN PARK wildlife including 220 bird species
and a welcome center that explains the
distinctive red facade, louvered canopy and
modern chandelier, the Winspear features
and the legacy of John F. Kennedy and ecology of the Trinity River. performances by the Dallas Opera, TITAS
presents contemporary culture within the and other arts groups and national touring
context of presidential history. UNION STATION — AMTRAK productions.
And just around the corner on Commerce 400 S. Houston St.
Street stands the John F. Kennedy Dallas, 75202 | 214-653-1101 WYLY THEATER
Memorial, a cenotaph, or open tomb, DART.org 2400 Flora St.
designed by Philip Johnson to symbolize A vintage 1914 station that is home to Dallas, 75201 | 214-978-2800
the freedom of Kennedy’s spirit. The Amtrak, Downtown DART Light Rail & ATTPAC.org
memorial is a square, roofless room, 30 feet Trinity Railway Express. Connected to the An aluminum-tube cube designed by Rem
high and 50x50 feet wide with two narrow Hyatt Regency Dallas via underground. Koolhaas that offers a flexible 500-plus seat
openings facing north and south. main theater with a 99-seat black box that
WEST END HISTORIC DISTRICT can be endlessly reconfigured. It is home
SOUTHFORK RANCH 208 N. Market St., Ste. A to the Dallas Theater Center and the Dallas
3700 Hogge Road Dallas, 75202 | 214-741-7180 Black Dance Theatre.
Parker, 75002 | 972-442-7800 DallasWestEnd.org
SouthforkRanch.com The turn-of-the-century warehouse district
Southfork Ranch, famous for its west of downtown that is home to various
representation in the TV show Dallas, restaurants, shops and nightclubs.
includes a memorabilia exhibit.
TEXAS STATE FAIR
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ARLINGTON VISITORS INFORMATION
OUT north texas 2019 27VISIT ARLINGTON PRESIDENT RON PRICE
Welcome to Arlington, a world of
wonderful! Arlington is vibrant and featuring world-renowned artists. And
diverse, and offers visitors everything finally, two stops that you definitely
from rich cultural experiences to don’t want to miss are the all-new Texas
exceptional international cuisine, Live!, the entertainment hotspot that
outdoor adventure and sports wonders. includes dining and concerts in the
While in Arlington, we invite you to center of the entertainment district, and
witness first-hand the Texas-sized the deals in the Arlington shopping
hospitality that we are famous for. Take district. For more information and for
time to enjoy Six Flags Over Texas, a deals that only the CVB can offer, visit
Texas Rangers game, or a Globe Life arlington.org.
Park tour. Or, catch a show at Theatre
Arlington or a concert at downtown’s We welcome you to Arlington, and
Levitt Pavilion. The Entertainment thank you for visiting our city!
District is also where you’ll find AT&T
Stadium, the home of the Dallas Ron Price
Cowboys, the only NFL stadium that President & CEO
doubles as a contemporary art gallery Arlington Convention & Visitors Bureau
OUT IN THE PARK
Since it first opened in 1961, Six Flags Over Texas, located next to I-30 in
Arlington, has been the premier destination for amusement park fun in North
Texas — indeed, in the state as a whole. And more than 20 years ago, it became
a major part of North Texas’ annual Pride celebration when Dallas Voice began
working with the park to sponsor Gay Day at Six Flags each September, on the
day before the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade.
In 2018, the Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau not only joined the Out
North Texas team this year, they also brought Six Flags Over Texas with them,
and Gay Day at Six Flags returned with a vengeance. Hundreds of proud LGBT
people and their families and friends flooded the theme park the weekend before
the 2018 parade to celebrate their Pride openly.
Dallas Pride is moving in 2019 — from the third weekend in September to the first
weekend in June, and from the Oak Lawn gayborhood and Cedar Springs Strip to
Fair Park. But the annual Pride pilgrimage to Arlington continues, now renamed
Out in the Park. An exact date has yet to be set for 2019, but with the Arlington
CVB and Dallas Voice presenting the event, the party looks to be bigger and better
than ever!
So keep an eye out for the announcement of the date and get ready to get
Out in the Park in 2019!!
SIX FLAGS
28 OUT north texas 2019OUT LIFE
resource. The park opened in 1990 with TEXAS LIVE!
Arlington is the largest of the DFW
just 376 acres but now encompasses 1,300 The newest addition to Arlington’s
mid-cities, and is home to the University of
acres of paved and unpaved trails for entertainment district, Texas Live!,
Texas at Arlington, three of the Metroplex’s
hiking and biking, a nature center with is a unique attraction combining
professional sports teams — Dallas
interactive exhibits, aquariums, terrariums, entertainment, restaurants and
Cowboys, Texas Rangers and the Dallas
environmental educational programs and a accommodations in one venue. Nestled
Wings — not to mention two of the largest
gift shop. between AT&T Stadium and Globe Life
and most popular theme parks in the state.
RiverLegacy.org Park, its perfect for sports fans, and the
Arlington Backyard is a 5,000-person
1851 Club, Arlington’s one LGBT bar, at
SIX FLAGS HURRICANE HARBOR outdoor concert venue. There is also the
931 W. Division St., is open daily from 3
1800 E. Lamar Blvd. PBR Texas bar with two mechanical bulls,
p.m. to 2 a.m. It is a no-smoking venue,
Arlington, 76006 the multi-level sports bar Live! Arena, plus
with regular drag shows on the weekends,
817-265-3356 restaurants including the third location of
karaoke every Thursday at 9 p.m., three
SixFlags.com/Parks/HurricaneHarbor Lockhart Smokehouse, Guy Fieri’s latest
pool tables, an electronic dart board, free
One of the nation’s largest collections of venture, Taco Joint, and Troy’s, a bar and
WiFi, an internet jukebox with videos and
water rides. restaurant brought to you by none other
everything from sports to entertainment
than former Dallas Cowboy’s quarterback
and awards shows on the big screen TVs.
SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS Troy Aikman. Coming soon to the
2201 Road To Six Flags entertainment complex is Live! By Loews,
There may be only one LGBT bar,
Arlington, 76011 a planned 14-story hotel with 301 rooms,
but Arlington has plenty of other
817-640-8900 including 23 suites, all with floor-to-ceiling
entertainment options, from nightlife to
SixFlags.com windows and more.
getting back to nature.
Major attractions include rides, shows,
concerts, games and restaurants. Open all VERIZON THEATER
RIVER LEGACY PARK
summer long for special holiday events, 1001 Performance Place
River Legacy Park, running along the
including Fright Fest in October and Grand Prairie, 75050
Trinity River on the north side of Arlington,
Holiday in the Park in November and 972-854-5050
opened in 1988 as a partnership between
December. VerizonTheater.com
the city of Arlington and River Legacy
An indoor performance space seating more
Foundation to preserve and enhance
than 6,300 just down I-30 from Arlington
the parkland along the Trinity River as
and across the road from Lone Star Park.
an educational, recreational and natural
ARLINGTON LEAVITT PAVILLION
OUT north texas 2019 29FORT WORTH VISITORS INFORMATION
FORT WORTH STOCKYARDS
30 OUT north texas 2019SUNDANCE SQUARE
AMERICAN AIRLINES C.R. funds, is the acclaimed multi-purpose
SMITH MUSEUM performance venue and permanent home
4601 Texas Highway 360 of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra,
Fort Worth, 76155 the Texas Ballet Theater, the Fort Worth
817-967-1560 Opera, the Cliburn Concerts, the Van
CRSmithMuseum.org Cliburn International Piano Competition
This museum focuses the world of and some presentations by Casa Mañana.
commercial aviation through interactive Performing Arts Fort Worth, the non-profit
exhibits, dioramas, a large-screen theater organization that oversees management of
and a restored DC-3. the Hall, also presents national Broadway
touring productions under the Broadway at
AMON CARTER MUSEUM the Bass banner, as well as programming
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. that includes Broadway Specials, Popular
Fort Worth, 76107 Entertainment and McDavid Studio
817-738-1933 Concert Series.
CarterMuseum.org
H ZOO
Featuring works by major 19th and The 2,042-seat multipurpose hall
was designed by David M. Schwarz/
FORT WORT
20th century American artists, including
legendary Western artists Frederic Architectural Services Inc. with acoustics
Remington and Charles M. Russell, and by Jaffee, Holden Acoustics Inc. It has an
other artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and 80-foot diameter Great Dome, painted Around the corner is the Maddox-Muse
Stuart Davis. It houses the second-largest by Fort Worth artists Scott and Stuart Center, built in 1894 as the Fort Worth
collection of photography in the country. Gentling, atop the Founders Concert Medical College and renovated in 1998 by
Theater. Perhaps Bass Hall’s most famous Performing Arts of Fort Worth to be used
BASS PERFORMANCE HALL features are the two 48-foot-tall angels, as administrative offices. David Schwartz
525 Commerce St. sculpted from Texas limestone by Marton designed the two recital halls — The Van
Fort Worth, 76102 Varo and blowing golden trumpets, that Cliburn Recital Hall and the McDavid
817-212-4200 adorn the Grand Facade. The angels have Studio — that were added on to the
BassHall.com now become preeminent cultural icons in original building in 2000 for the resident
The crown jewel of Downtown Fort the North Texas area. companies to utilize for practice and for
Worth, the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass commercial use for private and public
Performance Hall, built entirely with private events.
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