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Theater in Kentucky

Theater venues in Kentucky include:

Ashland

Paramount Arts Center, a Kentucky landmark on the Historic Register, opened in 1931.

Bardstown

Stephen Foster - The Musical (formerly The Stephen Foster Story) at My Old Kentucky Home State Park

Bowling Green

Capitol Arts Center, vaudeville house in the late 1890s, a movie house in the mid-1930s, and today a thriving live performance theatre.

Danville

Pioneer Playhouse, the oldest outdoor theater in the state
Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College

Falmouth

Kincaid Regional Theatre, Northern Kentucky's Only Professional Summer Theatre

Hopkinsville

Alhambra Theater, a community landmark

Horse Cave

Kentucky Repertory Theatre (formerly Horse Cave Theatre), also listed on the Historic Register

Lexington

The Kentucky Theater

Louisville

The Kentucky Center, the largest performing arts center in Kentucky, featuring touring plays and performances by the Kentucky Opera and the Louisville Ballet
The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, presenting free Shakespeare performances every summer in Louisville's Central Park.
Actors Theatre of Louisville
The Louisville Palace
CenterStage at the Jewish Community Center, Community Theatre which began in 1914, features Broadway-style musicals, professional children's theatre, and youth musical theatre training.
Iroquois Amphitheater
The Kentucky Theater

Murray

Playhouse in the Park

Olive Hill

Olive Hill Center for Arts & Heritage has an active community theater program.

Paducah

The Market House

Prestonsburg

Pine Knob

The Pine Knob Theatre, presenting two plays from 1950s Daddy took the T-Bird Away/Lucy and Ruth's Diner and two from an earlier time period The Legend of Doc Brown and Down in Hoodoo Holler. The plays run from June to September in Pine Knob Kentucky.

Somerset

Flashback Theater Co.

See also

External links

Directory of historic theaters in Kentucky