DFW.com's Big Fat 2013 Events Calendar (print & save) Spring is in full swing, with the Rangers home opener (against the hated Angels), the artistic bliss of Main Street and the sweet sounds of the Fort Worth Opera Festival.
April 1: April Fool's Day
April 2: Texas Rangers opening game vs. Houston Astros, in Houston
April 3: Disney on Ice: Rockin' Ever After, American Airlines Center (through April 7)
April 4: Dallas International Film Festival (through April 14); 4000 Miles, Stage West (through May 5)
April 5: Texas Rangers home opener vs. Los Angeles Angels; Deep Ellum Arts Festival (through April 7)
April 6: Scarborough Renaissance Festival (through May 27); Susan G. Komen Fort Worth Race for the Cure; NCAA Basketball Final Four (and April 8)
April 8: Sigur Ros, Verizon Theatre; Seussical, Majestic Theatre, Dallas
April 9: Henson Alternative's Stuffed and Unstrungfeaturing The Miskreant Puppets, Bass Hall
April 10: Wicked, Music Hall at Fair Park (through May 5); Lila Downs, Bass Hall
April 11: Lone Star Park spring thoroughbred meet (through July 6); Bon Jovi, American Airlines Center; Texas 500 Weekend, Texas Motor Speedway (through April 13)
April 12: Natalie Merchant with FWSO, Bass Hall (through April 14); The Aspern Papers, Dallas Opera at Winspear Opera House (through April 28)
April 13: Big Head Todd & the Monsters, House of Blues, Dallas
April 16: Rihanna, American Airlines Center
April 18: Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival (through April 21)
April 19: Picnic, Stolen Shakespeare Guild at Fort Worth Community Arts Center (through May 5); Oak Ridge Boys, Arlington Music Hall
April 20: Fort Worth Opera Festival begins with La Boheme (through May 12), Bass Hall; NBA playoffs begin
April 21: Glory Denied, Fort Worth Opera, McDavid Studio (through May 11)
April 22: An Evening With Sarah McLachlan, Meyerson Symphony Center
April 23: David Sedaris, Winspear Opera House
April 24: Boz Scaggs, Strauss Square, Dallas
April 25: NFL Draft begins; HAuNTcon national tour of haunted houses, including Cutting Edge and Zombie Manor (through April 28); The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Amphibian Stage Productions (through May 12); Black Crowes, House of Blues Dallas
April 26: Art in the Square, Southlake Town Square (through April 28); The Outsiders, Artes de la Rosa at Rose Marine Theater (through April 28); Too Many Girls, Lyric Stage (through May 5); Michael Bay's Pain and Gain in theaters
April 27: Sinbad, Winspear Opera House
April 30: Dixie's Tupperware Party, Van Cliburn Recital Hall, Bass Hall (through May 5)
