Centrepoint Theatre, Professional theatre in Palmerston North, New Zealand

Centrepoint Theatre is a theatre and theatre company on the corner of Church and Pitt Streets in Palmerston North. It moved there in 1978 into a former train workshop, after opening in 1973 at 81 George Street, where it seated about 80 people on freestanding chairs.

Centrepoint Theatre opened in November 1973 at 81 George Street, in premises vacated by a nightclub, as a charitable trust set up by Don Hampton along the lines of Wellington's Downstage Theatre. Its first full season began on 22 January 1974 with a $2,000 QEII Arts Council grant. By 1978 the 80-seat venue faced demolition, and the company moved to a former train workshop on the corner of Church and Pitt Streets, opening with Twelfth Night.

Centrepoint has produced more New Zealand plays than any other theatre and in 1993 was the first to stage an entire season of them, including works by Robert Lord, Roger Hall and Anthony McCarten. Since 1994 it has presented at least two Māori plays each year, a tradition begun when Jim Moriarty directed Riwia Brown's Roimata and John Broughton's Michael James Manaia.

Centrepoint sits on the corner of Church and Pitt Street, in a former train workshop it moved into in 1978 after leaving 81 George Street. The building is a short walk from the central city, so arriving on foot or by bus is straightforward. The annual programme runs five or six main-bill shows, with improv from the troupe Spontaneous on the final Friday of each month.

For its 40th anniversary in 2013, playwright Peter Hawes calculated the theatre's material footprint: over 40 years it used 10,000,000 nails, screws and brads, 60,000 litres of paint, 50,000 light bulbs, 30,000 sheets of ply, 80,000 metres of timber and 6,000 batteries.