“These themes are hand-picked for their outstanding design quality, features, and customer reviews.”
Need a WordPress theme for your theatre company?
These WordPress themes have been designed to serve professional productions. Whether you have new shows every evening or if your venue is much smaller, you’ll find everything you need here.
Beyond their attractive aesthetics, the themes collected here have templates designed to showcase upcoming shows and photographs from previous events. Some even allow you to sell tickets directly from your site.
Excited to see the themes? Keep scrolling to check out our top picks.
You may also enjoy our collection of WordPress themes for actors and actresses, as well as our events WP themes list.
Best theatre company WordPress themes
You’ll find gorgeous themes ready for the limelight below. They’re completely responsive, which means they’ll perform well on smartphones and tablets, and they have tons of great customer reviews.
Here are my top picks for best theater company WordPress themes for 2022.
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1. Bard by Mikado Themes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
Bard is a premium WordPress theme for theater companies. It’s quite versatile, and the live demo sites show off how it can be used for drama productions, dance studios, plays, and other artists and troupes.
You can recreate any of the demo sites you see on your WordPress install with the simple one-click demo content importer. It’s much easier to edit a fully customized site to match your theatre company than to start from scratch.
The Bard theme is excellent for highlighting your best media and photographs. It maintains a sleek black and white aesthetic, which allows color in your images to pop. The precise typography featured throughout each template creates a premium feel that will help elevate your brand online.
When it comes to customization, Bard over-delivers. There are six homepage layouts and a large collection of pre-designed inner pages available for site-building. These pre-made templates are made from the many page components that come bundled with Bard. You can use the drag-and-drop page builder plugin, Visual Composer, to make your own pages with these components. Bard also bundles Revolution Slider and is compatible with Tickera for selling and managing tickets on your site.
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2. Theatre WP by Curly Themes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
Theatre WP is a beautiful theme with large images and crisp typography. It blends an air of elegance with modernism in a way that makes the site feel premium.
This theme is truly well-designed for theatre companies. Instead of providing you with a bland set of templates and page components, it delivers exactly the features you’ll need. Promote upcoming shows, include poster graphics and high-resolution images from pivotal scenes, and publish a calendar including all future events. On the demo site, the “Your Visit” page is convenient. It includes all of the theatre’s contact info, a Google Maps embed of the location, notes on how to get to the theater from various modes of transportation, and ticketing info.
When it comes to customization, Theatre WP doesn’t disappoint. This theme has all the standard customization settings you’d expect: custom colors, social profile buttons, fonts, etc. It also includes some awesome bundled plugins like Slider Revolution and Visual Composer. These plugins let you design animated sliders and create new page templates with drag-and-drop tools. Overall, Theatre WP provides a contemporary and professional style with an excellent set of customization tools.
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3. Divi by Elegant Themes
Theme Description
The Divi theme is a hybrid of a premium theme and page-building plugin. Using these tools in combination, you can create any design you can imagine, all without editing any code.
The screenshot above features the homepage from the Museum template pack, which stylistically fits theaters too. That said, there are more than 300+ layout packs, plus dozens of pre-made Divi child themes available on the marketplace. Basically, when you use Divi, you can find a design that’s 99% similar to what you have in mind, and then use the robust point-and-click editing tools to customize the theme as you see fit.
When you purchase Divi, you also get access to a handful of premium plugins for email list building and social share buttons. If you want total control over your site’s design or
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4. Astra by Brainstorm Force
Theme Description
The Atra theme is unique in that it includes dozens of pre-made templates and is fully compatible with the most popular page builder plugins, such as Elementor and Beaver Builder. If you have any experience with one of these page-building plugins, you’ll love building sites with Astra.
The Astra theme includes a huge variety of built-in customization options that apply to all of the templates. You can rapidly change the fonts, colors, and overall layout of the site with a few clicks. If you purchase the pro version, you’ll also get the header and footer builder, and dozens more premium templates.
If you plan on building numerous websites, Astra will be an excellent choice for your site because you can reuse it to create entirely unique designs, again and again.
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5. Theater by CMS Masters (Themeforest)
Theme Description
The responsive Theater theme has a simple and classic design that suits theater companies perfectly. It emphasizes your shows and ticket sales as it should since that’s the heart of your business!
One thing that sets this theme apart is that you can sell tickets with it. While you may want to direct visitors to a site like TicketLeap, it’s nice to have the option to sell directly from your website. With WooCommerce integration, you can even open a small eCommerce shop on your site to sell T-shirts and other merchandise. Theater also integrates with the Events Calendar plugin. The events plugin lets you create a simple layout of upcoming shows and link to the event page for more details.
Add to this the dozens of shortcodes, portfolio styles, an SEO-friendly codebase, blog layouts, and Theater is an amazingly customizable WordPress theme. Use it for an opera, art events, ballet, comedy show, or any other theatre performance website.
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6. OsTende by ThemeREX (Themeforest)
Theme Description
OsTende has a simple style and all the right features for generating ticket sales with your WordPress site.
As you can see from the screenshot above, you can link your shows and events from the menu. A shows archive page will list all of the shows, similar to how a post category page works. Each show page includes an image, description, and calendar of upcoming performances. Even better, visitors can purchase tickets directly from your site.The modern OsTende theme also includes a wealth of features for customizing. It’s compatible with Elementor for page building, includes many color schemes, integrates hundreds of fonts from Google Fonts, and has many more options available in the Live Customizer where you can watch all your updates take place as you work. As a translation-ready theme, you can also make your site accessible in any language. Use this theme to celebrate performance art and cultural events in any part of the world.
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7. Classico by TemplateMonster
Theme Description
If you want a theme with a clean style and unique layouts, you need to check out Classico. Scrolling through the homepage, you’ll quickly discover creating and smooth animations of this theatre theme.
Classico comes with a page builder which lets you make your templates with a simple drag-and-drop editor. If you like the demo site’s homepage, that’s great, but know that you can customize it with the page builder. In fact, you can create as many custom pages as you’d like. Use Classico as a theme for an artist, local workshops, or theater performances.
This theater WP theme includes an events calendar that is designed to look like a traditional calendar. Visitors can pick an upcoming day and reserve a seat or table at your venue using this feature. It’s also easy to add image galleries and portfolio pages to your site and run an active blog to promote your shows.
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8. Cultera by Dannci (Themeforest)
Theme Description
While not created explicitly for theater companies, Cultera is a perfectly appropriate theme as a template made for culture and the arts. It is designed for publishers who write about these topics but has integrations with events plugins, allowing you to easily add upcoming shows and a performance schedule. Use it for a theater company, art school, museum, or history blog.
Cultera features a prominent image slider, serif fonts, and lots of white space. There’s plenty of opportunity for attractive photos, but it relies heavily on the professional use of typography to create its structure and beauty.
As a modern theme, Cultera allows you to design page templates with a drag-and-drop system powered by Elementor. There are pre-made pages available for import, but this system gives you total control over your site’s layout and contents.
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9. Theatre by TemplateMonster
Theme Description
Theatre is a simple theme for blogs and websites about entertainment and theater. While it’s an easy and natural fit for a blog, it can work well for a basic business website too. When creating new pages, you’ll have access to the 80+ shortcodes included in Theatre. These let you add multiple columns to the page, include buttons, videos, and all sorts of dynamic site elements. These tools allow you to create more complex pages that you can use to sell tickets and advertise upcoming shows.
Theatre provides you with precise controls for modifying the layout and adjusting the typography on the site. That includes changing the font sizes and typefaces used. Eight post formats allow you to publish videos, image galleries, and more on your blog, just like regular posts. Lastly, Theatre is WPML compatible, so it’s an excellent choice for a multilingual website.
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10. BigEvent by Codexcoder (Themeforest)
Theme Description
BigEvent is a popular theme for event websites. As a company that puts on live productions, you’ll appreciate the features like event registration, event management, performer pages, and ticket sales powered by the Modern Event Calendar plugin integration.
BigEvent has 24 different homepage variations for all sorts of events and conferences. The screenshot above is from the theater and art event demo. You can import this finished page into your site in just a few clicks and then use the integrated page building plugin to create your remaining templates.
Recent customers are rating this theme well for its customer support and variety of customization options. That said, some warn that it is quite complex due to all the options, so be prepared to learn how to use this premium theme before you finish your site.
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11. Theater Blog by TemplateMonster
Theme Description
Theater Blog is a clean premium theme for blogs about theater and entertainment news. It has some creative designs that will make it stand out from other more basic websites. While it advertises itself as a blog theme, it would work well for an online magazine too. The customization tools you’ll find in Theater Blog are very similar to the Theatre theme listed here. That means it has all the standard personalization options like custom colors, fonts, and various sidebar layouts.
If you check out the homepage design, you’ll see that this theme’s capabilities can extend beyond a simple blog. There is enough variety to promote events with templates and even sell tickets using the template provided. That said, it’s a clear winner if you want to start a theater blog.
Which theater theme is best for you?
If you need a few final tips, follow these recommendations.
Bard gets our top recommendation because of its adaptability and quality of design. Use it today for any website focused on the performing arts.
Theatre WP is another great option because it has a ton of features, bundled plugins, and a professional design that visitors will appreciate.
If you plan on creating more than one website, you should also consider both the Divi and Astra themes for your website. They’re both capable of creating hundreds of unique site designs.
Those two themes stood out the most, but of course, any of the theater company themes in this collection could serve your site well.
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Ben Sibley
Ben Sibley is a WordPress theme designer & developer, and founder of Compete Themes.