The company produces opera, musical, ballet, plays, and theatre for youth and children, in three different buildings: the Opernhaus (completed in 1907), the Schauspielhaus, and the Theater im Werftpark.

Aerial bombings destroyed much of the original structure in 1942 and 1943, and architects Henry Hansen and Guido Widmann were later brought in to restore the theatre from 1952 to 1953.

The first performance of Theater Kiel was Beethoven's Fidelio on 1 October 1907.

[4] In 2010, the first large scale stage work Márton Illés, Die weiße Fürstin, was co-produced with the Munich Biennale.

[6] An open-air performance of Puccini's Tosca was presented at the Kiel Town Hall Square in 2012.