Ateliertheater, Wheelchair accessible theatre in Burggasse, Vienna, Austria

Ateliertheater is a chamber theatre at Burggasse 71 in Vienna's 7th district, Neubau, housed in the former Star-Kino cinema since 1999. The auditorium seats 89 guests, and the renovated building has a faithfully reconstructed 1950s portal.

The Ateliertheater was founded in 1932 at Vienna's Naschmarkt as "Literatur am Naschmarkt", later called "Kaleidoskop" under Hellmuth Matiasek. Veit Relin took over in 1960 and gave it its present name. Peter Janisch directed the house for almost 40 years from 1967, staging Gombrowicz, Kroetz and Wolfgang Bauer. After leaving the Naschmarkt site for an underground garage, it moved to Lerchenfelder Straße and in 1999 to the former Star-Kino at Burggasse 71.

The theatre's name changed with its venues: founded in 1932 as Literatur am Naschmarkt, later Kaleidoskop under Hellmuth Matiasek, and Ateliertheater since Veit Relin took over in 1960. Its programme has mixed classics by Shakespeare, Schiller, Grillparzer, Nestroy and Schnitzler with contemporaries such as Mitterer and Turrini, and since the 2013 reopening also concerts, exhibitions, readings, children's theatre and a film club.

The auditorium seats 89 guests. The house is in the former Star-Kino at Burggasse 71, and its 1950s portal was rebuilt true to the original. The venue is used for more than theatre: concerts, exhibitions, readings, children's theatre and a film club have featured since the 2013 reopening.

The venue features a notably low stage that keeps spectators and performers at nearly the same eye level. This creates an unusually close relationship between audience and actors that differs from typical theater spaces.