The Credit Union of Texas Event Center has two of the bigger nights on its 2026 calendar coming up at the end of May. The 2026 Stifel Stars on Ice tour stops in Allen for a Friday, May 29 show at 7 p.m. and a Saturday, May 30 show at 7 p.m., with tickets starting at $30 plus fees and limited on-ice premium seating available through CUTXEventCenter.com.
Stars on Ice is not a routine booking for an arena of this size. The tour is the touring cast of post-season U.S. and international skating, and the 2026 lineup is built around fresh Olympic results — which is why the cast list reads like the medal table for the 2026 Games.
Who Is Actually on the Ice
The headliner is Ilia Malinin, the reigning two-time World Champion and three-time U.S. Champion. Malinin’s ongoing claim to fame is being the only skater in history to land a quadruple Axel in competition, a jump that figure skating analysts had been calling impossible for decades before he started landing it routinely. That single technical feat has rewritten what the upper end of men’s figure skating looks like, and it is also the single biggest reason the Stars on Ice tour can charge what it does for tickets in 2026.
The cast around Malinin is not lightweight either. Olympic Team Gold Medalist and three-time U.S. Champion Amber Glenn is on the tour. Olympic Team Gold Medalists and U.S. Champions Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea are skating pairs. Isabeau Levito — the 2026 Olympic team member, World Silver Medalist, and U.S. Champion — anchors the women’s roster alongside Glenn. Olympic Team Bronze Medalist and U.S. Champion Jason Brown is on the tour. The tour rounds out with 2026 Olympian Andrew Torgashev and 2026 Olympians Emily Chan and Spencer Howe.
For context, getting that many medalists from the same Olympic cycle on a single touring cast is the entire reason the tour exists in its current form. The post-Olympic year is when skaters who are not yet ready to retire and not yet ready to leave the spotlight take the ice show route, and the 2026 cast is the result of that timing working in the tour’s favor.
Why Two Allen Dates and Not One
The double-booking — Friday and Saturday both at 7 p.m. — reflects how Allen has functioned for the tour over recent years. The Credit Union of Texas Event Center has the right capacity for ice shows: large enough to make the production economics work, small enough that even back-of-house seats keep the skaters visible. DFW figure skating audiences have demonstrated they will fill two nights at the venue when the cast is strong, and the 2026 cast is unambiguously strong.
The Friday-Saturday format also lets the tour split its DFW market between two different audiences. Friday tends to skew adult, with skating fans driving in from across the metroplex after work. Saturday is the family night — youth skating clubs, mothers and daughters, birthday parties — which is the audience that actually drives up the merchandise and concession numbers for the tour.
The Allen Skating Scene Context
Allen’s skating community is part of the reason the tour returns. The Credit Union of Texas Event Center hosts youth skating programming and has a built-in audience of families whose kids are taking lessons, competing, or simply learning to skate. When the tour comes through, that base audience reliably converts into ticket buyers — and brings out-of-town friends and relatives with them.
The arena also gets used for Allen Americans ECHL hockey throughout the winter season, which keeps the ice in regular condition and means the venue’s ice operations crew has serious experience with the production-level demands of a touring ice show. Stars on Ice productions involve full lighting rigs, broadcast-quality sound, and tight sightline coordination that some smaller arenas struggle with. CUTX has done this enough times that the load-in is routine.
Tickets and the Practical Stuff
Tickets are on sale through both AXS and Ticketmaster, with prices starting at $30 and rising for the closer sections. Limited on-ice seating is available — seats placed directly on the ice surface for premium proximity to the skaters — which is a separate inventory tier and tends to sell first for both nights.
For families planning the visit, the parking situation at CUTX during a 7 p.m. show is the main thing worth thinking about. Arrival traffic peaks roughly an hour before showtime, and the lots closest to the arena fill first. Allowing extra time, especially if you have multiple kids and a stroller worth of gear, makes the difference between a relaxed pre-show and a sprint to your seats.
The shows tend to run about two hours including intermission, with merchandise lines forming during the break and again at the end. If the goal is meeting and getting autographs from the skaters, the post-show window in the lobby is the better play, though there are no guarantees on which cast members come out.
For a city that did not have an arena of this caliber a decade ago, having Stars on Ice book two nights here is part of how Allen’s entertainment economy keeps growing. The tour’s continued return is one of the more concrete signals that the venue has earned its place on the national touring circuit.
