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

• Aguijón Theater [1]
• American Blues Theater [2]
• Annoyance Theatre [3]
• Black Ensemble Theater Company [4]
• BoHo Theatre [5]
• Center on Halsted [6]
• Chicago Dramatists [7]
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater [8]
• Chopin Theatre [9]
• Citadel Theatre (Lake Forest) [10]
• Copernicus Center (formley Gateway Theatre) [11]
• Court Theatre [12]
• Factory Theater [13]
• First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook) [14]
• Goodman Theatre [15]
• iO Theater [16]
• Kane Repertory Theatre (St. Charles) [17]
• Lifeline Theatre [18]
• Lookingglass Theatre Company [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]
• Organic Theater Company [27]
• Paramount Theatre (Aurora) [28]
• The Playground [29]
• A Red Orchid Theatre [30]
• Red Tape Theatre [31]
• Red Theater Chicago [32]
• Remy Bumppo Theatre Company [33]
• The Second City [34]
• Silk Road Rising [35]
• Steep Theatre Company [36]
• Steppenwolf Theatre Company [37]
• Strawdog Theatre Company [38]
• TimeLine Theatre Company [39]
• Trap Door Theatre [40]
• Victory Gardens Theater [41]

Itinerant companies

• Babes With Blades [42]
• Child's Play Touring Theatre [43]
• Collaboraction [44]
• ETA Creative Arts Foundation [45]
• The House Theatre of Chicago [46]
• LiveWire Chicago Theatre [47]
• Off-Off Campus (UChicago) [48]
• Red Theater Chicago [49]
• Theater Oobleck (formerly Streetlight Theater) [50]
• TUTA Theatre [51]

Touring and rental venues

• Apollo Theater Chicago [52]
• Arie Crown Theatre [53]
• Auditorium Theatre [54]
• Briar Street Theater [55]
• Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place) [56]
• Cadillac Palace Theatre [57]
• Chicago Theatre [58]
• CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre) [59]
• Congress Theater [60]
• Greenhouse Theater Center [61]
• Harris Theater (Chicago) [62]
• James M. Nederlander Theatre (formerly Oriental Theatre) [63]
• Lyric Opera of Chicago [64]
• Rosemont Theater [65]

Inactive, historic companies and venues

Companies

• American Theater Company
• Body Politic Theater
• Caffeine Theatre
• Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
• Compass Players
• Defiant Theatre
• The Ethiopian Art Theatre/Players
• Famous Door Theatre
• Goat Island
• Happy Happy Good Show
• The Hypocrites [66]
• Illinois Theatre Center
• Improv Institute
• Infamous Commonwealth Theatre
• New Age Vaudeville
• New Variety
• Playwrights Theatre Club
• The Practical Theatre Company
• Remains Theatre
• Redmoon Theater
• Wayward Productions (formerly Chicago Fusion Theatre)
• Windy City Performs

Venues

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