Marshal Tiandu is the patron for most types of theater in Taiwan, including Taiwanese Opera, shadow puppet theater, marionette theater, Song Jiang martial arts troupes, puppet theater troupes that play nanguan music, and beiguan troupes of the xipi school.
大部份的戲劇都以田都元帥為戲曲神，包括歌仔戲、皮影戲、傀儡戲、宋江陣、以南管伴奏的布袋戲、西皮派北管社團，甚至是藝旦。