List of theaters in Chicago

fThis is a list of notable theatre companies, performance venues, and rental performance spaces in the Chicago area.

Chicago area theatre venues and organizations

Resident companies and venues

• About Face
• Aguijón Theater
• American Blues Theater
• Annoyance Theatre
• Black Ensemble Theater Company
• Center on Halsted
• Chicago Dramatists
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater
• Chopin Theatre
• Citadel Theatre (Lake Forest)
• City Lit Theater
• Copernicus Center (formerly Gateway Theatre)
• Court Theatre
• Factory Theater
• First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook)
• Goodman Theatre
• iO Theater
• Irish Theatre of Chicago (formerly Seanachaí Theatre Company)
• Kane Repertory Theatre (St. Charles)
• Lifeline Theatre
• Lookingglass Theatre Company
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Marriott Theatre (Lincolnshire)
• MCA Stage
• Merle Reskin Theatre (DePaul) (formerly Blackstone Theater)
• Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) (Evanston)
• Neo-Futurists
• Oak Park Festival Theatre (Oak Park)
• Opera in Focus (Rolling Meadows)
• Paramount Theatre (Aurora)
• The Playground
• Porchlight Music Theatre
• Raven Theater
• A Red Orchid Theatre
• Red Tape Theatre
• Red Theater Chicago
• Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
• The Second City
• Shattered Globe Theatre Company
• Silk Road Rising
• Steep Theatre Company
• Steppenwolf Theatre Company
• Strawdog Theatre Company
• Theatre-Hikes
• Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
• TimeLine Theatre Company
• Trap Door Theatre
• Victory Gardens Theater

Itinerant companies

• Babes With Blades
• Child's Play Touring Theatre
• Collaboraction
• ETA Creative Arts Foundation
• Free Street Theater
• Ghostlight Ensemble Theatre Co
• LiveWire Chicago Theatre
• Off-Off Campus (UChicago)
• Red Theater Chicago
• Theater Oobleck (formerly Streetlight Theater)
• TUTA Theatre

Touring and rental venues

• Apollo Theater Chicago
• Arie Crown Theatre
• Auditorium Theatre
• Briar Street Theater
• Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place)
• Bughouse Theater
• Cadillac Palace Theatre
• Chicago Theatre
• CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre)
• Congress Theater
• Greenhouse Theater Center
• Harris Theater (Chicago)
• James M. Nederlander Theatre (formerly Oriental Theatre)
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Rosemont Theater
• Theater Wit

Inactive, historic companies and venues

Companies

• Accidental Shakespeare
• American Theater Company
• Body Politic Theater
• Bailiwick Repertory Theatre
• BoHo Theatre
• Boxer Rebellion Theatre Company
• Caffeine Theatre
• Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
• Compass Players
• Defiant Theatre
• The Ethiopian Art Theatre/Players
• Famous Door Theatre
• First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook)
• Goat Island
• Happy Happy Good Show
• The Hypocrites
• Illinois Theatre Center
• Improv Institute
• Infamous Commonwealth Theatre
• Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company
• New Age Vaudeville
• New Variety
• Oracle Theatre Company
• Organic Theater Company
• Playwrights Theatre Club
• Pyewacket Theatre Company
• The House Theatre of Chicago
• The Practical Theatre Company
• Remains Theatre
• Redmoon Theater
• Wayward Productions (formerly Chicago Fusion Theatre)
• Windy City Performs

Venues

• Academy of Music
• Drury Lane Theatres
• Garrick Theater
• Happy Medium Theatre
• Iroquois Theatre
• Theatre Building Chicago (Purchased by Stage 773)
• Uptown Theatre

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