St. Louis Venues

St. Louis is home to so many amazing venues. From theater to music to galleries, St. Louis has something for everyone.

Our arts community consistently produces award-winning work. We have plays and musicals that start in St. Louis and end up on Broadway. Our world-renowned opera and symphony bring people to our region from all over the world. The musicians go on to win Grammys, Country Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, and more. Our visual artists create inspiring, powerful pieces that are displayed locally and nationally.

If you haven’t taken a look at what the Lou has to offer lately, the time is now. When you support local artists, you support St. Louis.

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Performing Arts

The Big Top
Walk through the walls of The Big Top and be instantly transported to a one-of-a-kind experience.

The Chapel
The Chapel is a not-for-profit venue with a vision to enable St. Louis musicians, artists and performers to more easily make a living in their calling. The Chapel is devoted to the arts and artists of Saint Louis.

Circus Flora
The Circus Arts Foundation of Missouri’s mission is to broaden and deepen the appreciation of the performing arts in the greater St. Louis community.

Circus Harmony
Circus Harmony teaches the art of life through circus education.

COCA
COCA (Center of Creative Arts) uses the power of the arts and education to build a vibrant St. Louis that is creative, connected, and inclusive.

Dance St. Louis
Dance St. Louis brings world-class dance that wouldn’t otherwise be presented to the St. Louis region

Edison Theatre
Edison serves as a teaching facility for the Washington University Performing Arts Department.

Fabulous Fox Theatre
The Fabulous Fox Theatre presents the ‘Best of Broadway’ in St. Louis.

First Run Theatre
First Run Theatre provides a vehicle for regional playwrights to produce original, unpublished, never-produced works.

Gaslight Theater
Home to St. Louis Actors’ Studio, live music and comedy.

The Grandel
Located at 3610 Grandel Square in the Grand Center Arts District, The Grandel is home to a 600-capacity state-of-the-art theatre.

Jest Murder Mystery Theater
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Kirkwood Performing Arts Center
Located in the heart of Kirkwood’s bustling downtown, the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center features the Ross Family Theatre and Strauss Black Box Theatre.

Kirkwood Theatre Guild
The Mission of the Kirkwood Theatre Guild is to be the most FUN and the most REVERED community theatre group for members and patrons alike.

Kramer Marionettes
At Kramer’s, when the lights go down and the music plays, the audience seems to come alive along with the puppets!

Kurtain Kall
KTK has a continuing goal to perform theater for the love of theater with ensemble spirit.

MADCO Dance
MADCO entertains, educates, and collaborates through innovative dance programming for communities across the nation so audiences don’t just watch dance, they experience it.

The Marcelle
Under the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Marcelle is a “Home for Theatre & Dance.”

Metro Theater Company
Metro is inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theater, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts.

The Midnight Company
The Midnight Company is a St. Louis-based enterprise, focusing on new and interesting work for the stage, screen and internet.

Moonstone Theatre Company
The independent, professional, women-owned theater company produces classics and new works to educate and inspire audiences.

The Muny
The Muny is the largest outdoor musical theatre in North America. Every summer, we produce and present seven Broadway-style musicals.

Mustard Seed Theatre
Mustard Seed Theatre is a professional theatre company in residence at Fontbonne University committed to high quality productions exploring issues of faith and social justice and creating a safe arena for civil dialogue on difficult issues.

New Jewish Theater
The New Jewish, St. Louis’ Premier Small Professional Theatre, is dedicated to the exploration of universal themes and issues and the examination of the full range of the human experience filtered through the lens of the Jewish experience.

New Line Theatre
New Line Theatre, “The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,” was created in 1991 to involve the people of the St. Louis region in the creation and exploration of provocative, alternative, politically and socially relevant works of musical theatre.

NewSam Aerial Dance
Sharing a passion for aerial dance and seekinf to expand global awareness of aerial dance as an exciting, uniquely innovative, and expressive movement discipline/style.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis
Opera Theatre of St. Louis is a world-renowned institution and is among the leading opera companies in the nation.

Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
Since 1966, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has been the region’s premier live, professional theatre.

Saint Louis Ballet
Saint Louis Ballet is the only professional, resident ballet company of metropolitan St. Louis.

Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble (SATE)
SATE is a collective of artists from varying disciplines devoted to storytelling through text, movement, soundscape, original music, and the technical arts. We focus on presenting established works through a contemporary lens, and on the creation and development of new plays.

St. Louis Actors’ Studio
Housed in The Gaslight Theater in historic Gaslight Square, STLAS is committed to bringing engaging theatrical experiences to our community of actors, writers, producers, filmmakers and all patrons of the arts.

St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre
The Black Rep is the nation’s largest, professional African-American theatre company.

St. Louis Shakespeare
SLS is dedicated to producing Shakespeare’s entire canon.

Stages St. Louis
STAGES ST. LOUIS is a professional, not-for-profit organization located in St. Louis, Missouri, and dedicated to producing the indigenous American art form of musical theatre.

Stray Dog Theatre
Stray Dog Theatre (SDT) is committed to unleashing the art of theatre and community service on Saint Louis and the surrounding community.

Take Two Productions
Take Two Productions’ mission is to provide opportunities for individuals of all ages and races to develop their creative talents through live, musical theater.

TOUHILL Performing Arts Center
The Touhill offers quality arts and entertainment from across the spectrum of the performing arts genres.

Upstream Theater
Since 2005, Upstream has introduced St. Louis audiences to new plays from places as far-flung as Argentina and Australia, as well as innovative stagings of classics. Two-thirds of its shows have been U.S. premieres, and all are chosen for local impact.

West End Players Guild
The Mission of West End Players Guild is to offer character-driven, dramatically significant plays that appeal to and reflect the diverse tastes of the St. Louis metropolitan theater-going public.