Theater Görlitz, Opera and drama theatre on Demianiplatz, Görlitz, Germany

Theater Görlitz is a theatre in the center of Görlitz, in the German state of Saxony, built in the historicist style typical of the mid-19th century. The building has a decorated facade, a wide entrance hall, and an auditorium arranged across several levels with balconies facing the stage.

The first design by Berlin architect Eduard Titz was rejected for cost reasons; the building was erected under local master mason Gustav Kießler and builder Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Fischer. The foundation stone was laid on 1 June 1850, and the theatre opened on 2 October 1851 with Schiller's Don Karlos. The city took over operations in 1923 and added a back stage and scenery house in the mid-1920s; the auditorium was fully restored in 2002.

Locals call the building the "Kleine Semperoper" because of its opulent interior. Since 1999 the Görlitz ensemble has produced music theatre for the whole Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien region, with opera, operetta, musical and ballet performances and concerts by the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie, and it regularly plays in Bautzen, Hoyerswerda and Kamenz.

The theatre is in central Görlitz and easy to reach on foot from the old town. Visitors coming from the Polish side of the border can walk across the bridge from Zgorzelec in just a few minutes.

Theater Görlitz is part of the Gerhart Hauptmann Theater, a company that also runs a second venue in the nearby city of Zittau. This makes it one of the few theatre companies in Germany that regularly operates across two separate cities at the same time.