Music venues in the city range from classical to rock and everything in between. Notably, the New Haven Symphony is the fourth-oldest orchestra in the country and the rock nightclub Toad’s Place has been ranked in the top five nightclubs in the United States.  New Haven is also well known for its long theater tradition.

Music and Dance

• Yale Cabaret
• Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
• Yale Institute of Sacred Music 
• Yale School of Music 
• Yale Symphony
• Alchemy Night Club/Lounge
• Another Octave Women's Chorus
• Bar-Nightclub and Bru Room
• Bottega Lounge
• Chamber Music Society at Yale
• Cafe Nine Jazz Club
• Center Street Lounge
• Club Connecticut Nightclub Listings
• Connecticut Jazz Fest in greater New Haven
• Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus
• Eli Whitney Folk Music Festival
• Firehouse 12
• Gotham Citi
• Hula Hank's
• International Festival of Arts and Ideas 
• Lyman Center for the Performing Arts 
• Neighborhood Music School
• New Haven Chorale
• New Haven Contra Dancing 
• New Haven Folk Alliance
• New Haven Jazz Festival
• New Haven Oratorio Choir
• New Haven Symphony 
• New Haven Visitor's Bureau
• New Haven Ballet 
• New Haven Morris and Sword
• Oracle Resto-Lounge
• Orchestra New England 
• Shubert Theater
• Sprague Hall 
• The Blues Cafe 
• Toad's Place
• Trinity Men & Boys, Boys & Girls Choirs
• University Glee Club of New Haven
• Woolsey Hall
• WSHU (Public Radio)
  

Theater

 In New Haven

• Yale Children's Theater
• Yale Repertory Theater 
• Yale School of Drama 
• Elm Shakespeare Company
• Little Theater 
• Long Wharf Theater
• Lyman Center for the Performing Arts
• Off Broadway Theater at Yale
• New England Academy of Theatre 
• Palace Theatre  
• Shubert Theater

In surrounding towns

• Eugene O'Neill Theater Center 
• Goodspeed Opera House  
• Ivoryton Theater  
• National Theater of the Deaf  
• New London Garde Arts Center and Harkness Summer Music 
• The Chevrolet Oakdale Theater  
• Paul Mellon Arts Center 
• Quick Center for the Arts 
• Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theater
• Stony Creek Puppet Theatre 
• The Bushnell  
• Warner Theatre 
• Westport County Playhouse