7 Best Performing Arts Venues in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas

The biggest touring musical acts set up stage at this arena designed by David M. Schwarz. The arena, home to the NBA's Dallas Mavericks and the NHL's Dallas Stars, is the centerpiece of burgeoning Victory Park, an area filled with tony restaurants, clubs, and shops. Tours are available at 10:30 am Monday, Wednesday, and Friday when there are no scheduled events.

Barry Whistler Gallery often showcases contemporary Texas artists and their prints, paintings, sculpture, and photography.

Public tours are available of the majestic Bass Performance Hall, which spans a full city block. Four resident companies call the world-class venue home.

A theater-in-the-round under one of Buckminster Fuller's first geodesic domes, Casa Manana is the site of the performing-arts organization's mainstage productions, as well as its popular Children's Playhouse series.

The top performing-arts attraction in Dallas is whatever's on at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, where the Dallas Symphony Orchestra plays.

The city's highest-profile theater performances are from the Dallas Theater Center at the Kalita Humphreys Theatre, the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

McKinney Avenue Contemporary (often called the MAC) offers space to alternative artists of all disciplines, and the versatile space offers room for video and live performances. Kitchen Dog Theater performs here.