EDUCATION: ON STAGE, IN CLASSROOMS, AND THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY
Broadway Dallas has made the strategic decision to usher in the 100th Anniversary of the Music Hall at Fair Park in 2025 with a $1.2 million investment in education and community.
ON STAGE: DALLAS TEENS TAKE BROADWAY BY STORM
From school auditoriums to the Music Hall stage, Broadway Dallas coaches and celebrates 7,000+ students through our High School Musical Theatre Awards—awarding $65,000 in scholarships each year. Recent winners Damson Chola, Jr. and Fabiola Carabello Quijada didn’t just win locally—they were named Best Actor and Actress in the country at NYC’s Jimmy Awards. Broadway Dallas: Where the stars of tomorrow are rising today.
To learn more, visit: High School Musical Theatre Awards
IN CLASSROOMS: TURNING STEM TO STEAM
This year, for the 100th Anniversary of the Music Hall and in partnership with Dallas ISD and Dallas County School Districts, Broadway Dallas will introduce 6,800 students and their teachers to STEM curriculum infused with the arts to build a foundation for these high school youth to succeed in college and careers both inside and outside the arts. This vast program will culminate with all 6,800 students converging on the Music Hall to see the Broadway hit production of THE WIZ, the show that inspired their work.
To learn more, visit: Dallas County School Days
THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY: BROADWAY FOR ALL
Breaking down barriers of accessibility, Broadway Dallas offers complimentary subscription tickets to our South Dallas/Fair Park neighbors — breaking down barriers and opening doors to the magic of live theater. In partnership, we are building a cultural home. Broadway Dallas: Connecting our community, one seat a time.
To learn more, visit: ConnecTix
About Broadway Dallas
Your gift provides critical funding to Broadway Dallas to continue its proud 80-year legacy of presenting and promoting excellence in live musical theater at historic Fair Park. In addition to onstage performances, your donation supports Broadway Dallas’s multi-generational, education and community outreach initiatives that serve more than 50,000 people in North Texas. Specifically, through your philanthropy:
Broadway Dallas is the preeminent nonprofit presenter of Broadway theater, musicals, and concerts in North Texas.
Broadway Dallas presents and promotes excellence in live musical theater with year-round performances for diverse audiences of all ages, impacting the lives of children and families through community outreach and education and enriching the cultural landscape of Dallas/Fort Worth, North Texas and the Southwest Region.
BROADWAY DALLAS IS ON A JOURNEY TO BECOME A FULLY INCLUSIVE, MULTICULTURAL, ANTI-RACIST ORGANIZATION.
WE WILL HEAR THE TRUTH AND UNDERSTAND THE HARM CAUSED BY RACIST SYSTEMS.
WE WILL SHARE THESE TRUTHS TO DRIVE TRANSFORMATION IN OUR ORGANIZATION AND IN THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE.
Broadway Dallas adopted a new Strategic Plan in 2017 that included a commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Access and in 2021 we became aware of an opportunity to further inform and deepen our commitment. We embarked on a journey, with the guidance of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation* (DTRHT) who provided us with a framework to learn and internalize the truth of how racist systems and structures developed and how they continue to cause harm in communities and within our company for all people and disproportionately to those who identify as BIPOC. Broadway Dallas will share these truths with our staff, board and other constituents and together use this knowledge to drive change of systems that uphold a hierarchy of human value, allow race to impact a person’s agency or position and limit opportunities for people to become part of the Broadway Dallas family.
Broadway Dallas developed initial priorities for change with an aim to institutionalize Racial Equity as part of Broadway Dallas’s organizational culture, enable more equitable processes for our staff, board and patrons and set policy priorities, metrics, and accountability. These priorities became the building blocks to support modifying organization roles and power structures in vital business activities such as strategic planning and budgeting, redesigning recruiting to identify BIPOC candidates, altering hiring practices to create a more diverse staff, identifying, and dismantling dehumanizing systems and building a culture of belonging.
Broadway Dallas understands that a journey to become an anti-racist organization requires a steady and ongoing commitment to change by discovering and hearing truth, understanding harm caused by racist systems and challenging or dismantling them. We recognize that this commitment is not simply a department of Broadway Dallas or a project to be added on when convenient, but rather a lens that we must learn to apply to everything we do. Broadway Dallas’s mission to bring the best of Broadway to North Texas and to deliver the spirit of Broadway into all corners of our community, in classrooms and community centers throughout the region, can only be accomplished if Broadway Dallas also transforms to become a fully inclusive, multicultural, anti-racist organization.
Our journey has just begun. Please check back here as we share our progress.
*The W.K. Kellogg Foundation-led Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) enterprise is a multi-year, national and community-based effort to engage communities, organizations, and individuals from multiple sectors across the United States in racial healing and addressing present-day inequities linked to historic and contemporary beliefs in a hierarchy of human value.
Organization name
Broadway Dallas
other names
Dallas Summer Musicals
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
$10,000,000 or more
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Address
909 1st Ave