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The Book of Mormon

August 8-10, 2025

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Stars of the Symphony

August 20, 2025

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Concert

August 22-23, 2025

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Windborne's The Music of Queen wth the FWSO

August 29-30, 2025

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Brahms Fourth and Grieg's Piano Concerto

September 5-7, 2025

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

September 19-21, 2025

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Life of Pi

September 23-28, 2025

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Peter Pan

October 3-5, 2025

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Lyle Lovett and his Large Band

October 17, 2025

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The Addams Family

October 24-26, 2025

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A Beautiful Noise

October 28 - November 2, 2025

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Black Violin

November 4, 2025

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REWIND: Music of the 80s

November 7-8 2025

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Saint-George's Sword and Bow

November 8 2025

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& Juliet

November 12-16, 2025

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Mozart and Mahler's Fourth

November 21-23, 2025

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Home for the Holidays

November 28-29, 2025

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Mariachi Herencia de México Christmas

December 2, 2025

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Holidays with the UNT One O'Clock Lab Band

December 5, 2025

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A Christmas Story

December 5-7, 2025

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The Nutcracker

December 12-28, 2025

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The Sounds of Paris

January 9-11, 2026

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Wild West Rodeo

January 16-17, 2026

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The Unicorn's Birthday

January 17, 2026

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Stas Chernyschev and Joshua Elmore Play Strauss

January 23-25, 2026

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Mark Twain Tonight

January 27, 2026

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Disney's The Lion King in Concert

January 30-31, 2026

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SIX

February 10-15, 2026

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Gala Concert Starring Gil Shaham

February 21, 2026

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Shakespeare at the Symphony

February 27 - March 1, 2026

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Marvel Studios' Infinity Saga Concert Experience

March 6-7, 2026

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Diversions

March 13-15, 2026

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Jane Glover Conducts FWSO Stars

March 20-22, 2026

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Back to the Future

March 24-29, 2026

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Fort Worth Opera

Madama Butterfly

April 10-12, 2026

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Shucked

April 14-19, 2026

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Spanish Masters: An Evening of Muisc and Art

April 24-26, 2026

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UNT One O'Clock Lab Band Spring Showcase

May 1, 2026

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Spamalot

April 28 - May 3, 2026

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Brahams & Dvorak

May 8-10, 2026

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Swan Lake

May 15-17, 2026

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An Evening in Finland

May 22-24, 2026

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Hadestown

June 5-7, 2026

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The Notebook

June 23-28, 2026

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Hamilton

July 14-26, 2026

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Suffs

August 4-9, 2026

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Freedom Vibes

June 19-20, 2025

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Books at the Bass

The Children’s Education Program at Bass Performance Hall wants to invite you to experience, Books at the Bass. Curated by our friends at the Fort Worth Public Library, the following selection of books are inspired by the 2025-2026 Broadway at the Bass season presented by PNC Bank. These lists are only a selection of the endless stories that are out there waiting to be discovered. We hope that this will act as a springboard to a year full of literary adventures!

In each collection of books, visit the URL to be taken directly to the collection in the Fort Worth Public Library’s catalog. You can place holds and have titles sent to the branch of your choice.

Books inspired by & Juliet

Books that are a retelling of Romeo and Juliet and stories of star-crossed lovers. For more information click here.

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

In 1926 Shanghai, eigthteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir to the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.

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Roman + Jewel by Dana Davis

A hip-hopera version of Romeo and Juliet is racing towards Broadway and Jerzie Jhames is cast as the understudy below R & B megastar, Cinny. That would be amazing, but Jerzie had been told the lead was hers -- and when a video of her rehearsing with the leading man is leaked, the internet seems to agree! How much power can Cinny wield to keep the lead and leading man for herself?

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If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

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Books inspired by Back to the Future: The Musical

Middle grade books about time travel. For more information click here.

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.

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Lost in the Future by Damian

A school field trip to an ancient castle goes terribly wrong for a group of friends, when a dangerous storm erupts. As they are about to leave the castle, four friends are cornered by their arch nemesis— the class bully, who tries to pull one of his usual pranks. Instead, they all get the scare of their lives, when they fall down a tunnel that transports them into the future: a future where mankind has nearly disappeared from the face of the earth, and where nature has taken control. The friends will have to face up to this hostile new world— as well as their nemesis, who must come to terms with his own trauma— if they are to work together and have any chance of making it back home...

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Pablo and Splash by Sheena Dempsey

Pablo and Splash, best-friend Antarctic penguins with contrasting personalities, set off for a vacation but end up in a time-travel machine that takes them back to the dinosaur age, and must find a way to get back home before they become dino snacks.

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Books inspired by Suffs

Teen books about politics and elections, teen nonfiction about voting rights & woman’s suffrage. For more information click here.

Good Girls Don’t Make History by Elizabeth Kiehner

Good Girls Don't Make History is an important graphic novel that amplifies the voices of female legends from 1840 to the present day. Reliving moments from the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells, and Susan B. Anthony, these inspiring stories are boldly told from one of the most formative eras in women's history--the fight for the vote in the United States.

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Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed

Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.

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Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer

When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

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Fort Worth Public Library

Stop by your local bookstore or public library to discover what other titles they have to offer! 

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Indie Bookstore Finder

When you shop at small businesses, you help your community, the environment, and the economy.  Find your local indie bookstore below.

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