Ranked shortlist · 10 of 21 performing arts venues
Best performing arts venues in San Antonio
The 10 most notable performing arts venues in San Antonio, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Jump-start Performance Company
710 Fredericksburg Rd
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.231, percentile 100 of 21
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2
Alameda Theater
318 W Houston St
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.231, percentile 95 of 21
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3
Network For Young Artists
1800 Fredericksburg Rd Suite 122
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.215, percentile 90 of 21
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4
Sunken Garden Theater
3875 N St Mary's St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.190, percentile 85 of 21
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5
Arneson River Theatre
418 Villita St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.190, percentile 80 of 21
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6
North East School of the Arts
1400 Jackson Keller Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.190, percentile 75 of 21
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7
S.t.a.g.e., Inc.
1300 Bulverde Rd
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.945, percentile 70 of 21
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8
Class Act Performing Arts
5999 De Zavala Rd #114
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.862, percentile 65 of 21
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9
Kalalaya Indian Performing Arts
16759 Huebner Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.836, percentile 60 of 21
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10
The Renewable Republic
1903 S Saint Marys St
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.762, percentile 55 of 21
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).