# 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
* American Blues Theater
* Annoyance Theatre
* Black Ensemble Theater Company
* Center on Halsted
* Chicago Dramatists
* Chicago Shakespeare Theater
* Chopin Theatre
* Citadel Theatre (Lake Forest)
* Copernicus Center (formerly Gateway Theatre)
* Court Theatre
* Factory Theater
* First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook)
* Goodman Theatre
* iO Theater
* 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
* 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

### Inactive, historic companies and venues

Companies
* Accidental Shakespeare
* American Theater Company
* Body Politic Theater
* Baliwick Theatre Company
* 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
* Iroquois Theatre
* Theatre Building Chicago (Purchased by Stage 773)
* Uptown Theatre