Austin Playhouse -- A professional theatre offering traditional, mainstream musicals, comedies, and dramas in an intimate setting, close by St. Edwards University.

Austin Shakespeare Festival -- A professional theatre focusing on -- well, you know, if not the greatest, at the very least the most famous writer of all time.

Bedlam Faction -- An arts collective committed to play (in the funnest sense of the word) and dedicated to supporting community and connection through collaborative, inclusive projects.

Different Stages -- Austin's longest-producing community theatre, focusing on classics, both modern and premodern.

The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin -- Presenting an annual production of the most witty operettas in the English language.

The Greater Tuna Corporation -- Home to Austin's greatest theatrical success stories, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and their trilogy of Tuna plays.

Hyde Park Theatre -- Austin's most venerable little theatre, producing the neatest, quirkiest scripts that can be found, and home to Austin's enduring and enduringly popular performance art festival, FronteraFest

Naughty Austin Productions -- Austin's very adult comedy troupe, presenting their patented brand of off-the-wall humor at the gorgeous Arts on Real theatre.

ONSTAGE Theatre Company -- A showcase for vintage comedies and dramas, ONSTAGE presents classic theatre to audiences in landmark theatres and opera houses throughout Texas and then brings the shows home to Austin.

Paradox Players -- A community theatre supported by the First Universal Unitarian Church, presenting full-length plays that offer messages of optimism and hope.

Refraction Arts Project -- A very cool alternative theatre that produces mostly original work by Austin-based artists and runs the Blue Theatre off Springdale Road.

Rude Mechanicals -- An Austin theatre collective with an international reputation, offering mostly original, alternative theatre in their own space, The Off Center.

Salvage Vanguard Theater -- Another Austin alternative theatre that has fostered a national reputation, producing mostly new work by Austin-based artists.

Second Youth Family Theatre -- One of the few Austin theatre companies that focuses exclusively on theatre for young audiences.

VORTEX Repertory Company -- Austin's oldest alternative theatre company, producing year-round in one of the best, most intimate alternative spaces in Austin.

Zach Theatre -- Austin's oldest producing professional theatre company.