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National Theatre is the United Kingdom's flagship publicly funded theatre on the South Bank, London, founded in 1963 under Laurence Olivier and operating three auditoria in its current building opened in 1976.
Royal Court Theatre is a London venue in Sloane Square founded in 1956 as the home of the English Stage Company, renowned for premiering works by John Osborne, Caryl Churchill, and other groundbreaking playwrights.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, founded in 1861 in Brooklyn, New York, is the oldest performing arts center in the United States, known for avant-garde and international programming.
Public Theater, founded by Joseph Papp in New York in 1954 and housed in the former Astor Library since 1967, is the originator of the free Shakespeare in the Park festival.
Abbey Theatre, Ireland's national theater founded in Dublin in 1904 by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, premiered landmark plays by J.M. Synge and Sean O'Casey.
A Berlin theater founded in 1949 by playwright Bertolt Brecht and actress Helene Weigel, established as the institutional home of Brecht's dramatic works.
Chicago ensemble theater company founded in 1976 by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney, and Jeff Perry, noted for launching the careers of John Malkovich and other major actors.
A Berlin theater founded in 1962, internationally recognized for innovative productions and closely associated with directors Peter Stein and Thomas Ostermeier.
Donmar Warehouse is a 251-seat not-for-profit theatre in Covent Garden, London, transformed into a producing house in 1992 under Sam Mendes and celebrated for intimate, critically acclaimed productions.
Minneapolis theater founded in 1963 by director Tyrone Guthrie, notable for its thrust stage design and its influence as a model institution for the American regional theater movement.
Lincoln Center Theater, founded in 1985 in New York, operates the Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi E. Newhouse theaters and is known for producing major dramatic and musical works.
Almeida Theatre is a small but internationally respected producing house in Islington, London, founded in 1980 in a converted Victorian literary institute and known for bold revivals and new writing that frequently transfers to the West End and Broadway.
A Parisian theater established in 1782 as France's second national stage, now dedicated to presenting European theatrical works in multiple languages.
La Jolla Playhouse is a San Diego theater co-founded in 1947 by actor Gregory Peck, recognized for originating Broadway-bound productions and winning a Tony Award for regional theater.
Playwrights Horizons, founded in New York in 1971, is an off-Broadway theater dedicated solely to new American plays and musicals, having premiered numerous award-winning works.
Bristol Old Vic is England's oldest continuously working theatre, with an auditorium dating to 1766, and serves as a producing house that combines heritage with a reputation for contemporary theatrical innovation.
The Thalia Theater in Hamburg, founded in 1843, is one of Germany's oldest and most celebrated repertory theaters, known for ambitious classical and contemporary productions.
Yale Repertory Theatre is a professional theater at Yale University founded in 1966 by Robert Brustein, closely affiliated with the Yale School of Drama in New Haven.
Chicago's oldest and largest nonprofit theater, founded in 1925 and named after playwright William Goodman, with a history of world premieres and Tony Award-winning productions.
New York Theatre Workshop, founded in 1979, is an off-Broadway company known for developing new works including the world premieres of Rent in 1996 and Once on This Island.
Berkeley, California nonprofit theater founded in 1968, a Tony Award winner for Outstanding Regional Theatre in 1997 known for developing new plays that move to Broadway.
Washington D.C. nonprofit theater founded in 1950 by Zelda Fichandler, widely credited as a pioneer of the American regional theater movement.
Traverse Theatre, founded in Edinburgh in 1963, is dedicated to new writing and is one of Europe's leading new-work venues, originally housed in a converted brothel.
Chichester Festival Theatre, opened in 1962 in West Sussex, England, features a thrust stage and was an early artistic base for Laurence Olivier before he founded the National Theatre.
Young Vic is a London theatre near Waterloo, founded in 1970 as a venue to present classic plays to younger audiences at affordable prices and now acclaimed for adventurous, socially engaged productions.
Old Globe Theatre is a San Diego theater founded in 1935, modeled after Shakespeare's original Globe, and a Tony Award winner for outstanding achievement in regional theater.
Sheffield Crucible, opened in 1971 in Sheffield, England, is a producing theater with a distinctive thrust stage best known for hosting the World Snooker Championship every year since 1977.
Signature Theatre, founded in New York in 1991 by James Houghton, is known for its residency model in which entire seasons are devoted to the work of a single living playwright.
Manhattan Theatre Club, founded in New York in 1970, is a nonprofit company operating on Broadway and off-Broadway that is dedicated to developing new American plays and musicals.
Roundabout Theatre Company, founded in New York in 1965, is the city's largest nonprofit theater, known for classic revivals across multiple Broadway and off-Broadway venues.
