Rabenhof Theater, Theater in the 3rd district, Vienna, Austria

Rabenhof Theater is a theater in Vienna's 3rd district, offering a program that ranges from plays and cabaret to comedy and music. It sits inside a residential complex on Rabengasse and has several performance spaces of different sizes.

The rooms in the Rabenhof housing estate, built 1925–1928, first served as a children's day centre and residents' events hall, then from 1934 as a cinema that closed in 1971. After more than a decade unused, the Theater in der Josefstadt took over in 1988 and converted it into a 300-seat venue. The friends' association under Karl Welunschek reopened it as an independent stage on 31 December 2000; Thomas Gratzer took over in summer 2003.

The theater draws people from the surrounding neighborhood as well as from other parts of the city, mixing local regulars with curious visitors. After shows, the foyer tends to fill with conversation, making the evening last well beyond the final curtain.

The hall seats 300 and is reached through the foyer of the Rabenhof complex at Rabengasse 3 in the 3rd district. The former projection room now holds the lighting, sound and video equipment. The 2008 renovation, led by architect Peter Achhorner, restored the expressionist tile bands and brass fittings in the stairways and foyer.

The auditorium's viewing axis was reversed 180 degrees in 1934 when the hall became a cinema, and a projection booth was added; that booth now houses the theatre's lighting, sound and video equipment. The main stairs, foyer and interval areas carry wine-red and yellow tile bands in an Expressionist design, hidden behind plasterboard until restoration work in 2008.