Uptown

Don’t let those shiny cars, toys and hot bodies fool you, the 130 year-old neighborhood’s got soul!  In addition to the 100 or so restaurants, bars and clubs, 4 hotels, 4 live theaters and a smattering of galleries and shopping primarily at West Village, it’s home to 4 historical cemeteries, the largest collection of Victorian Homes in Dallas and remnants of a Freedman’s town. They are serviced by an open-air street car system referred affectionately by locals zipping down McKinney as, “that damn trolley!”.  Don’t pass on Cedar Springs or the offshoot streets, there’s plenty there also.  In recent years the resident numbers have grown to mirror the work population and why it’s hopping all the time.  A lot is packed into the 1/2 half mile wide and one mile long neighborhood. 

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Art

Theatre Three Inc.

2800 Routh Street # 168 Dallas, Texas 75201

Theatre Three produces seven mainstage productions each year in addition to special children’s performances, off-site educational outreach, special event productions and the programming in Theatre Too (the basement performing space). Theatre Too currently houses a six show season of original plays, adaptations of literary works, musical revues, and biographical drama.

  • Phone: 214.871.3300

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary Museum- The MAC

3120 McKinney Ave Dallas, Texas 75204

Located in the former Potts Longhorn Leather Company’s 18,000 square foot building, the MAC is the first venue in North Texas dedicated to presenting contemporary visual and performing art as well as lecture series. The royal blue painted MAC was founded in 1994 and houses productions of the Kitchen Dog Theater.

Open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 am until 9 pm.

Non-profit org; Retail

  • Phone: 214.953.1622

Kitchen Dog Theater

3120 McKinney Ave Dallas, Texas 75204

Founded in 1990 by five graduates of SMU’s theater program, the Kitchen Dog Theater aims “to provide a place where questions of justice, morality, and human freedom can be explored. Each year the theater puts on a New Works Festival with readings of original scripts with one chosen to run as part of the theater’s season. The company’s unusual name comes from a song in Samuel Beckett;s “Waiting for Godot”

A dog came in the kitchen
And stole a crust of bread;
then cook up with a ladle
And beat him ‘till he was dead.
Then all the dogs came running
And dug the dog a tomb.” 

Theater members encourage aspiring actors and playwrights by teaching high school workshops.  Each year the theater puts on a New Works Festival with readings of original scripts submitted from around the world with one chosen to run as part of the theater’s season. 

  • Phone: 214.953.1055