The Kentucky Center
Kentucky's Premier Performing Arts Center
Since 1983, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts has served as the home for Louisville’s nationally-renowned arts scene, and the primary performance space for our resident companies - Louisville Ballet, Louisville Orchestra, StageOne Family Theatre and PNC Bank Broadway in Louisville – as well as our Kentucky Performing Arts Presents events, and productions by local community theatres.
Accessibility
Kentucky Performing Arts is committed to providing access to live entertainment for everyone.
At Kentucky Performing Arts' venues, Accessibility ensures that our facilities and programming is accessible to everyone by providing assistive listening devices, audio description, captioning, sign language interpreters, and large print programs for events and activities at the Kentucky Center, Brown Theatre, and Old Forester's Paristown Hall.
Safety and Conduct
What You Can Expect In a KPA Venue
When you come to The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, the Brown Theatre, and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, you can rest assured we do everything we can to provide a safe and healthy environment.
Kentucky Center Backstage & Art Collection Tours
Tours of The Kentucky Center, including backstage and guided tours of The Kentucky Center’s distinguished art collection, are available to patrons and visitors.
Facility Tours are an hour long and they include at least one backstage area and more if the building schedule allows. This guided tour also includes a general overview of some of the art on display in the Main Lobby.
Art Only Tours are an hour long and they include a detailed tour of the Center’s unique and significant collection of the 20th and 21st Century contemporary art.
To schedule a Facility Tour, please contact Lauren Baker at (502) 562-0100 x301.
Art Tours are free and open at all, no reservation required on the following dates and times:
Monday, October 19, 2026, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Monday, November 30, 2026, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Monday, January 25, 2027, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Upcoming Events
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Dusty Slay
The Neighborhood Guy
Masterclass Monday: Cake Decorating 101 - FREE EVENT
Sculpting A Giant S'mores Cake
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Fortune Feimster
Takin' Care of Biscuits Comedy Tour
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
David Nail
Down To The Studs Tour with Will Hoge
Bestselling Author John Grisham with Author and Political Leader Stacey Abrams - The French Illusion
Nikki Glaser
The Stunning Tour
Couples Therapy
The Theatrical Show
Dylan Gossett
Live in Concert
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear with New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd - Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country
Tickets are available for the live stream in the North Lobby
The Barber of Seville
Music by Giachino Rossini Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Chance The Rapper
Coloring Book 10 Year Anniversary Tour with special guest La Reezy
The Midnight: Time Machines
With support from Jessie Frye
Finding Lilith
an original devised production
Aflora
Free Event, No Tickets Required
Steve Hackman Conducts His MAHLER X NOTORIOUS B.I.G. X 2PAC
Heroes Off Duty Comedy Tour
The Carpenters Songbook
A Live Celebration
Thundercat
Distracted AF Tour
Night of the Living Yacht
feat. River City Yacht Club Band & DJ Always
Acclaimed Scholar Timothy Snyder with Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Anne Applebaum - On Freedom
Collage Dance Collective
A Chilling Evening with Dr. Katherine Ramsland
Cracking The Serial Killer Code
Trivium: Crown in The Grave
The Golden Thread
The tie that binds the Bluegrass
Wild Kratts LIVE 2.0
Activate Creature Power!
Henry Cho
The Empty Nest Tour
Jim James (Solo Acoustic): Wowed Out Tour
with Grace Rogers
The Unauthorized Hallmark(ish) Parody Musical
Prominent Tech Journalist Kara Swisher with Bestselling Author Scott Turow - Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Dexter and The Moonrocks
with special guests Cigarettes @ Sunset & High June
Mark O'Connor's An Appalachian
Bestselling Narrative Historians Erik Larson and Nathaniel Philbrick - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War and The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
Laurie Berkner
The Greatest Hits Solo Tour
Michael Feinstein "My Celebration"
Best of Johnny Mathis and Henry Mancini
