Founded: 1989

What you’ll see: Avant-garde dance, ballet, leotards.

An extension of the nationally recognized Alonzo King LINES Ballet company, founded in 1982, this adult dance center has six studios spread over three floors and offers over 100 classes a week.

Founded: 1999

What you’ll see: Office space for theatrical dance company.

The KUNST-STOFF company doesn’t have public performance space in Mid-Market, but has an office there. They travel widely and also have performed locally at ODC, YBCA and elsewhere.

Founded:1922

What you’ll see: National touring rock music bands, lovely moldings, rabid fans.

One of the city's biggest music venues, this historic theater was purchased by David Addington in 2005, who has been pushing hard to revitalize Mid-Market. Reportedly starting at $1.3 million, Addington will throw in Warfield tickets with your purchase.

Currently a strip club, Tenderloin Economic Development Project director Elvin Padilla has convinced the current owners that they should rent to a conventional theater company. No word yet, though, on who will take over the space.

The ACT has entered into negotiations with a developer to create a 300-seat theater, smaller than their flagship Geary Street location, in a large chunk of Market St. between Mason and Taylor. The project is far from completed but would be a big boon to that troubled stretch of the street.

A lighting design competition financed by the $250,000 NEA grant to the San Francisco Arts Commission will determine the exact nature of the two lighted “gateways” on either end of Mid-Market – UN Plaza and 6th and Market.

Founded: 1977

What you’ll see: Broadway shows, musicals, tourists.

Beginning in the late ‘70s, Carol Shorenstein Hays has been bringing Broadway Shows to the Mid-Market/Tenderloin area. Until this point, though, there hasn’t been much reason for SHN patrons to do more than fight for cabs to escape the neighborhood.

Founded: 1977

What you’ll see: Broadway shows, musicals, tourists.

Beginning in the late ‘70s, Carol Shorenstein Hays has been bringing Broadway Shows to the Mid-Market/Tenderloin area. Until this point, though, there hasn’t been much reason for SHN patrons to do more than fight for cabs to escape the neighborhood.

Founded: 1991

What you’ll see: Graffiti-marked walls, visual art, skateboards.

One of the longest Mid-Market arts tenants, Luggage Store gallery is in the process of buying their building. On the storefront level, homeless nonprofit Central City Hospitality House is expected to move in and continue doing their art program.

Founded: 2009

What you’ll see: Digital art, interdisciplinary collaborations, computers.

Although relatively new, GAFFTA has made a big impression on both the neighborhood and the arts community at large, sponsoring such successful events as the journo-meets-computer-nerd gathering, Hacks and Hackers.