Theatre in Kentucky Theater venues in Kentucky include:

Ashland

Paramount Arts Center The Paramount Arts Center is a historic theater located in Ashland, Kentucky, in the United States. Listed as the Paramount Theatre on the National Register of Historic Places, this theater is an important part of theater in Kentucky. History ...

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

Bardstown

* '' Stephen Foster - The Musical'' (formerly ''The

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Story'') at

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* 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 Pioneer Playhouse, located in Danville, Kentucky, is the oldest outdoor theater in the state of Kentucky. History The Pioneer Playhouse was built by Col. Eben C. Henson who established the outdoor theater in 1950. Notable alumni actors includ ...

, the oldest outdoor theater in the state
Norton Center for the Arts

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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

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The Kentucky Center The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, located in Louisville and currently branded as "The Kentucky Center", is a major performing arts center in Kentucky. It is one of three venues owned bKentucky Performing Arts Tenants include Broadway ...

, the largest performing arts center in Kentucky, featuring touring plays and performances by the

Kentucky Opera The Kentucky Opera is an American opera company based in Louisville, Kentucky. The company is resident at the Brown Theatre, as part of Kentucky Performing Arts. The Louisville Orchestra is the accompanying orchestra for the company. Moritz von ...

and the

Louisville Ballet The Louisville Ballet is a ballet school and company based in Louisville, Kentucky and is the official state ballet of The Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is led by artistic and executive director Robert Curran, an Australian dancer and choreograp ...

* The

Kentucky Shakespeare Festival Kentucky Shakespeare Festival is a non-profit, professional theatre company in Louisville, Kentucky that produces and performs the works of William Shakespeare. The main productions offered are the annual summer series of plays presented free to t ...

, presenting free

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performances every summer in Louisville's Central Park. * Actors Theatre of Louisville, which produces the

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, amongst many other productions *

The Louisville Palace The Palace Theatre (previously known as the Loew's Theatre, Loew's United Artist Theatre and the United Artists Theatre, it is locally known as the Louisville Palace) is a music venue in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, located in the city's thea ...

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, Community Theatre which began in 1914, features Broadway-style musicals, professional children's theatre, and youth musical theatre training. *

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Amphitheater, with shows produced by Broadway at Iroquois * The Kentucky Theater

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* Playhouse in the Park

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* The Market House

Prestonsburg

Jenny Wiley Theatre Jenny Wiley Theatre was a non-profit organization in Kentucky that produced classic Broadway musicals, comedies, historical dramas and holiday productions at both the Jenny Wiley Amphitheatre, located within the Jenny Wiley State Resort Park, and ...

Mountain Arts Center The Mountain Arts Center is a performing arts venue located at 50 Hal Rogers Drive in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. The center was established in October 1996 and became home to the Kentucky Opry. Its main feature is the 1,054 seat theater, along wi ...

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* 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.

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Flashback Theater Co.
is a semi-professional theater company in Somerset, Kentucky with the mission of exploring our present relationship to the world through the lens of our past interactions as a community and through the passionate pursuit of theater that speaks to the soul.

External links

Directory of historic theaters in Kentucky
{{Kentucky Kentucky culture *

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Theaters Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...