Upper Austrian Provincial Theatre, to the west of the Landhaus in Linz, was built in 1803 and extended by Clemens Holzmeister in 1956 to include a hall for chamber music. It was originally a customs house compound, but was changed into a riding school in 1670. The theater was added in 1803, with a facade in the Empire style. In 1909, the riding school was demolished, and while the adjacent Ballhaus became a building for indoor ball games, the site became an open air practice area.

The theater itself was redesigned in 1957 and extended to included a separate building for smaller theater productions.

Upper Austrian Provincial Theatre includes music theater, drama, dance, children’s and young people’s theater. With the stage of the big house and the chamber theater, it has acquired an excellent reputation with its broad ranging repertoire of opera, operetta, musicals and dance. The big house opened over 200 years ago, the chamber theater directly adjacent to it in the Promenade opened in 1957. A new building for the Theater of the Province is currently being planned.

In the Provincial Capital City of Linz, there is everything ranging from the big house to the small stage, from baroque opera to contemporary Austrian authors, from whirling dance virtuosos to sophisticated theater for children and young people.