Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo headline the family-friendly festival, a weekend-long affair bringing together local artists, bands, and vendors with national performers.

Sean J. Smith's satirical Monologues will make a comeback at the Spring Celebration this year, possibly to the chagrin of the Pope, Barbie, and the many other pop culture figures roasted the last time this rapid-fire comedy piece appeared in a Dallas Black Dance Theatre production. SMU grad and choreographer Jamal Story will debut a piece for the occasion, when DBDT sees what fresh ground there is to be broken in contemporary dance.

This one-man show might as well be subtitled How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Obamacare, but you can't fault a guy for tattooing his politics to his forehead. Mike Milligan plays a Rush Limbaugh listener who continues to believe upward mobility is a thing that still happens in the U.S. When his wife is diagnosed with cancer and the couple's health insurance won't cover treatment, he's forced to rethink a few things. It's an urgent, small-scale drama about a national issue.

De Gruyter and Thys have created their own disquieting universe in 20-plus post-everything video works starring a mix of untrained actors and makeshift mannequins built out of Styrofoam and thumbtacks. To introduce themselves to Dallas, the Belgian artists will exhibit 50 such "dolls," pieces that only the most haunted or bizarre children would consider inviting to tea parties.