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Theatre interior before a Gregory Alan Isakov concert in June 2024. 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 theater district, on the east side of Fourth Street, between Broadway and Chestnut Street.
Actors Theatre was founded in 1964 following the merging of two local companies, Actors, Inc. and Theatre Louisville, operated by Louisville natives Ewel Cornett and Richard Block. [1] Designated as the "State Theater of Kentucky" in 1974, in 2002 the theatre was described by the National Endowment for the Arts as "one of America's most ...
Renamed Guild Theatre in 1960, featuring independent play companies. Converted to rock music venue The Mad Hatter in 1969. Building converted to retail/showroom space for an office furniture company in 1981. In 2018, converted to current entrepreneurial/coworking space, Launch Louisville. Brown Theatre [6] 1925- 317 W. Broadway
Since April 3, 1974, Actors Theatre of Louisville, 316 W Main St., has served as a creative hub for plays, performances, learning, and collaboration on new ideas throughout the Commonwealth.
The center also manages the historic W. L. Lyons Brown Theatre, which opened in 1925 and is patterned after New York's acclaimed Music Box Theatre. Actors Theatre of Louisville is another performing arts center that has become the cornerstone of the revitalization of Louisville's Main Street. As the centerpiece of the city's urban cultural ...
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
The Actor's Theater of Louisville hosted the first Festival of New American Plays in March 1977. It was founded by the former artistic director of the Actor's Theater, Jon Jory. The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn, one of the plays presented that year, went on to open on Broadway later that year and would win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1978.
The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, which opened in 1983, is owned by Kentucky Performing Arts and has tenants that include Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet, the Louisville Orchestra, StageOne Family Theatre and Broadway Across America.