List of theaters in Chicago

This 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[1]
• American Blues Theater[2]
• Annoyance Theatre[3]
• Black Ensemble Theater Company[4]
• Center on Halsted[5]
• Chicago Dramatists[6]
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater[7]
• Chopin Theatre[8]
• Citadel Theatre (Lake Forest)[9]
• Copernicus Center (formerly Gateway Theatre)[10]
• Court Theatre[11]
• Factory Theater[12]
• First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook)[13]
• Goodman Theatre[14]
• iO Theater[15]
• Kane Repertory Theatre (St. Charles)[16]
• Lifeline Theatre[17]
• Lookingglass Theatre Company[18]
• Lyric Opera of Chicago[19]
• Marriott Theatre (Lincolnshire)[20]
• MCA Stage[21]
• Merle Reskin Theatre (DePaul) (formerly Blackstone Theater)[22]
• Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) (Evanston)[23]
• Neo-Futurists[24]
• Oak Park Festival Theatre (Oak Park)[25]
• Opera in Focus (Rolling Meadows)[26]
• Paramount Theatre (Aurora)[27]
• The Playground[28]
• Porchlight Music Theatre[29]
• Raven Theater[30]
• A Red Orchid Theatre[31]
• Red Tape Theatre[32]
• Red Theater Chicago[33]
• Remy Bumppo Theatre Company[34]
• The Second City[35]
• Shattered Globe Theatre Company
• Silk Road Rising[36]
• Steep Theatre Company[37]
• Steppenwolf Theatre Company[38]
• Strawdog Theatre Company[39]
• Theatre-Hikes
• Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre[40]
• TimeLine Theatre Company[41]
• Trap Door Theatre[42]
• Victory Gardens Theater[43]

Itinerant companies

• Babes With Blades[44]
• Child's Play Touring Theatre[45]
• Collaboraction[46]
• ETA Creative Arts Foundation[47]
• Ghostlight Ensemble Theatre Co[48]
• LiveWire Chicago Theatre[49]
• Off-Off Campus (UChicago)[50]
• Red Theater Chicago[51]
• Theater Oobleck (formerly Streetlight Theater)[52]
• TUTA Theatre[53]

Touring and rental venues

• Apollo Theater Chicago[54]
• Arie Crown Theatre[55]
• Auditorium Theatre[56]
• Briar Street Theater[57]
• Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place)[58]
• Cadillac Palace Theatre[59]
• Chicago Theatre[60]
• CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre)[61]
• Congress Theater[62]
• Greenhouse Theater Center[63]
• Harris Theater (Chicago)[64]
• James M. Nederlander Theatre (formerly Oriental Theatre)[65]
• Lyric Opera of Chicago[66]
• Rosemont Theater[67]

Inactive, historic companies and venues

Companies

• Accidental Shakespeare[68]
• American Theater Company[69]
• Body Politic Theater[70]
• Baliwick Theatre Company
• BoHo Theatre[71]
• Boxer Rebellion Theatre Company
• Caffeine Theatre[72]
• Chicago Center for the Performing Arts[73]
• Compass Players
• Defiant Theatre
• The Ethiopian Art Theatre/Players
• Famous Door Theatre[74]
• First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook)
• Goat Island
• Happy Happy Good Show
• The Hypocrites[75]
• Illinois Theatre Center
• Improv Institute
• Infamous Commonwealth Theatre[76]
• Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company
• New Age Vaudeville
• New Variety
• Oracle Theatre Company
• Organic Theater Company[77]
• Playwrights Theatre Club
• Pyewacket Theatre Company
• The House Theatre of Chicago[78]
• The Practical Theatre Company
• Remains Theatre[79]
• Redmoon Theater
• Wayward Productions (formerly Chicago Fusion Theatre)
• Windy City Performs[80]

Venues

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

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