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


Resident companies and venues

* About Face * Accidental Shakespearebr>
* Aguijón Theaterbr>
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American Blues Theater American Blues Theater is a nonprofit, professional Equity theater company in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The ensemble currently has 30 members. History American Blues Theater was founded in 1985 as a company dedicated to new and classic ...
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Annoyance Theatre The Annoyance Theatre, or Annoyance Productions, is a theatre and associated ensemble based in Chicago, Illinois, that deals mainly in absurd and outrageous humor. Many people who have performed with the ensemble have gone on to become successfu ...
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* Baliwick Theatre Company *
Black Ensemble Theater Company Black Ensemble Theater Company is a theatre company that performs at the Black Ensemble Cultural Center in the Uptown community area of Chicago, Illinois. The company is known for productions related to African-American culture, especially musi ...
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BoHo Theatre BoHo Theatre (incorporated as Bohemian Theatre Ensemble) was a non-profit Chicago-based theatre company. Founded in 2003, their productions garnered praise (including Top Ten production assignations from the ''Chicago Tribune'', and ''Time Out Ch ...
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* Boxer Rebellion Theatre Company *
Center on Halsted Center on Halsted is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community center in Chicago, Illinois. Kim Fountain serves as Chief Operating Officer. The center is located in the Lakeview neighborhood on the corner of Halsted Street a ...
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Chicago Dramatists Chicago Dramatists is a theatre in River West, West Town, Chicago, Illinois, USA, focused on nurturing playwrights and developing new plays. It was founded in 1979 by Russ Tutterow and is notable for its Network Playwright Program, which offers cla ...
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* Chicago Shakespeare Theaterbr>
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Chopin Theatre Chopin Theatre Productions is a 501(c)(3) not for profit art presenter and producer at the historic Chopin Theater building in Chicago. Built in 1918, in what is now Wicker Park, the theater is located across the Polish Triangle. Chopin Theatr ...
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* Citadel Theatre (Lake Forest

* Copernicus Center (Chicago, Illinois), Copernicus Center (formerly Gateway Theatre

* Court Theatre (Chicago), Court Theatrebr>
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Factory Theater The Factory Theater is a Chicago theatre company founded in 1992. Originally working out of a 50-seat storefront theater in the Rogers Park, Chicago, Rogers Park neighborhood in the northern part of Chicago, the company has produced over 100 shows ...
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First Folio Theatre First Folio Theatre was a not-for-profit theater company affiliated with the Actors' Equity Association. Founded in 1996, First Folio, originally named First Folio Shakespeare Festival, was located on the grounds of the Mayslake Peabody Estat ...
(Oak Brook

* Goodman Theatrebr>
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iO Theater iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as "ImprovOlympic") is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago, with a former branch in Los Angeles, called iO West and in Raleigh, North Carolina called iO South. The theater taught and hosted p ...
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* Kane Repertory Theatre (St. Charles, Illinois), Kane Repertory Theatre (St. Charles

* Lifeline Theatrebr>
* Lookingglass Theatre Companybr>
* Lyric Opera of Chicagobr>
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Marriott Theatre The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois is a respected Chicago area regional theatre. Attached to the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort, the theatre produces an average of five musicals each year, presented in the round, as well as production ...
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MCA Stage The MCA Stage is the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago’s performing arts program. Founded in 1996 with the opening of the MCA’s new building in Chicago, Illinois. History In 1996, Peter Taub was appointed as the MCA director of Performance P ...
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Merle Reskin Theatre The Merle Reskin Theatre is a performing arts venue located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Originally named the Blackstone Theatre it was built in 1910. Renamed the Merle Reskin Theatre in 1992, it is now part of DePaul Unive ...
(DePaul) (formerly Blackstone Theater

* Light Opera Works, Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) (Evanston

* Neo-Futuristsbr>
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Oak Park Festival Theatre Oak Park Festival Theatre (OPFT) is a professional theatre company in Oak Park, Illinois, under contract with Actors' Equity Association. The company was founded in 1975 by Marion Kaczmar, an Oak Park resident and arts patron, and performed Renaissa ...
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* Oracle Theatre Company * Opera in Focus (Rolling Meadows

* Organic Theater Companybr>
* Paramount Theatre (Aurora, Illinois), Paramount Theatre (Aurora

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The Playground The Playground Theater is the only continuously operating non-profit theater in Chicago dedicated to Modern Theatrical Improvisation, a form of theater invented in the city. The Playground was founded in 1997 by its original member companies. ...
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Porchlight Music Theatre Porchlight Music Theatre is a professional theatre company in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois that has won numerous Joseph Jefferson awards, Joseph Jefferson Awards in its 25-year history. The company has come to embody the slogan "american musicals. ...
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A Red Orchid Theatre A Red Orchid Theatre is an Equity theatre company located in the Old Town district of Chicago, founded in 1993 by Michael Shannon, Guy Van Swearingen IV, and Lawrence Grimm. Kirsten Fitzgerald, a long-time ensemble member, has helmed the company ...
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* Red Tape Theatrebr>
* Red Theater Chicagobr>
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Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Remy Bumppo Theatre Company is a theater in Chicago known for productions from playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw and Tom Stoppard. Marti Lyons serves as the company's Artistic Director. History Remy Bumppo was founded in 1996 by Artistic D ...
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The Second City The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise and is the oldest ongoing improvisational theater troupe to be continually based in Chicago, with training programs and live theatres in Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre op ...
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* Shattered Globe Theatre Company *
Silk Road Rising Silk Road Rising is a theatre company located in downtown Chicago dedicated to presenting plays written by individuals of Asian and Middle Eastern descent. Formerly known as Silk Road Theatre Project, the name was changed in 2011 in order to bett ...
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* Steep Theatre Companybr>
* Steppenwolf Theatre Companybr>
* Strawdog Theatre Companybr>
* Theatre-Hikes *
TimeLine Theatre Company TimeLine Theatre Company is a not-for-profit theatre company located in the Lakeview East neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1997, TimeLine is a midsize theater with an annual budget exceeding $1 million. History TimeLine Theatre C ...
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* Trap door theatre, Trap Door Theatrebr>
* Victory Gardens Theaterbr>


Itinerant companies

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Babes With Blades Babes With Blades is a Chicago-based all-female stage combat theatre company. History In 1997 Dawn "Sam" Alden staged four performances billed as ''Babes With Blades: An Evening of Women Wielding Weapons'' as a showcase for female stage combatants ...
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Child's Play Touring Theatre Child's Play Touring Theatre (CPTT) is a non-profit arts-education touring theatre company based in Chicago. Founded in 1978 by June and Victor Podagrosi, CPTT was the first theatre company where professional actors take original works written by c ...
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ETA Creative Arts Foundation ETA Creative Arts Foundation, founded in 1971, is an African-American theatre and art museum in Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates ...
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The House Theatre of Chicago The House Theatre of Chicago is a non-profit, ensemble theatre company in Chicago, IL. The House was founded in 2001 by a group of friends from the British American Drama Academy and Southern Methodist University with the mission of exploring the id ...
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LiveWire Chicago Theatre LiveWire Chicago Theatre is an Illinois not-for-profit theater arts organization based in Chicago. Past seasons have included the works of Jean-Paul Sartre ''No Exit'', Timberlake Wertenbaker '' Love of the Nightingale'', Mark Healy's adaptation ...
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* Off-Off Campus (UChicago

* Red Theater Chicagobr>
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Theater Oobleck Theater Oobleck is a theater troupe in Chicago. It began in the 1980s in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as Streetlight Theater. Theater Oobleck was co-founded by Terri Kapsalis, Dave Buchen, Jeff Dorchen, Mickle Maher, and Greg Kotis. The name "Oobleck" cam ...
(formerly Streetlight Theater

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TUTA Theatre TUTA Theatre or The Utopian Theatre Asylum is a nonprofit theater company in Chicago, Illinois, Chicago. TUTA was established in 1995 in Washington, D.C., and its mission is "to engage the American audience with relevant theatre challenging in bot ...
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Touring and rental venues

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Apollo Theater Chicago The Apollo Theater Chicago was built in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood in 1978, by theatre producers Jason Brett and Stuart Oken. Located at 2540 N. Lincoln Ave., the Apollo has 430 seats and a lobby featuring art exhibits and a full bar. ...
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Arie Crown Theatre The Arie Crown Theater is an entertainment venue named after Lithuanian immigrant Arie Crown, who was the father of Henry Crown, the American industrialist and philanthropist, and situated on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. It opened in 1960, with sea ...
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* Auditorium Theatrebr>
* Briar Street Theaterbr>
* Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place

* Cadillac Palace Theatrebr>
* Chicago Theatrebr>
* CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre

* Congress Theaterbr>
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Greenhouse Theater Center The Greenhouse Theater Center is a professional, non-profit theater located in the heart of Chicago's Lincoln Park. The Greenhouse Theater Center hosts multiple Off-Loop theater companies, including Eclipse Theatre Company, Hubris Productions, MP ...
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* Harris Theater (Chicago)br>
* Nederlander Theatre (Chicago), James M. Nederlander Theatre (formerly Oriental Theatre

* Lyric Opera of Chicagobr>
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Rosemont Theater The Rosemont Theatre is a concert hall in Rosemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The venue, which has seats for 4,400 people, opened in 1995 and hosts many different musical artists and shows. It is located near O'Hare International Airport, Fas ...
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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 The Ethiopian Art Theatre — originally called the Chicago Folk Theatre, later the Colored Folk Theatre, also referred to as The Ethiopian Art Players — was an African American theatre company based out of Chicago, Illinois. The company was an i ...
* Famous Door Theatre *
Goat Island Goat Island (or Goat Islands) may refer to: Arts * Goat Island (performance group), a Chicago-based company * ''Goat Island'' (play), ''Delitto all'isola delle capre'', by Ugo Betti Places Australia * Goat Island (Port Jackson) in Sydney Harbou ...
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Happy Happy Good Show ''Happy Happy Good Show'' was an improvisational comedy revue held at the Victory Gardens Studio Theater in Chicago during the summer of 1988. The cast and writers were largely made up of writers on strike from ''Saturday Night Live'' after the 198 ...
* The Hypocritesbr>
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Illinois Theatre Center The Illinois Theatre Center (ITC) was a theater in the southern Chicago suburb of Park Forest which began operation in 1976. In 1999, ITC moved to a state-of-the-art facilityImprov Institute The Improv Institute was an improvisational comedy company in Chicago from 1984 until 1994. The mainstage show was improvised following audience suggestions. The troupe had two storefront-theaters, both on West Belmont Avenue on Chicago's North s ...
* Infamous Commonwealth Theatre * Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company *
New Age Vaudeville New Age Vaudeville was an American professional theater troupe founded by Richard O'Donnell (playwright), Richard O'Donnell and Amy McKenzie, and was part of the Chicago comedy boom of the 1980s. History Peninsula Players' Comedy Cabaret In New ...
* New Variety *
Playwrights Theatre Club The Playwright's Theatre Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953 by Paul Sills, David Shepherd and Eugene Troobnick. The theatre was noted for its original treatment and productions of classic plays as well as premiering original works, and ...
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Pyewacket Theatre Company Pyewacket may refer to: * Pyewacket (familiar spirit), a familiar spirit reported by an alleged witch in 1644 * ''Pyewacket'' (film), a 2017 Canadian film by Adam MacDonald * ''Pyewacket'' (novel), a 1967 children's novel by Rosemary Weir * Pye W ...
* The Practical Theatre Company * Remains Theatre * Redmoon Theater * Wayward Productions (formerly Chicago Fusion Theatre) * Windy City PerformsWindy City Performs, a performing arts school, closes in Jefferson Park
/ref> Venues * Drury Lane Theatres * Garrick Theater * Iroquois Theatre *
Theatre Building Chicago The Theatre Building Chicago is the former name of a theater building located in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood. The Theatre Building Chicago once referred to both the three theatres that are in the space, as well as the producing organization t ...
(Purchased by Stage 773) * Uptown Theatre


References

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