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Kentucky Center

The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts
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Address 501 West Main Street
Louisville, Kentucky
United States
Coordinates 38°15′26.3″N 85°45′31.7″W / 38.257306°N 85.758806°W / 38.257306; -85.758806Coordinates: 38°15′26.3″N 85°45′31.7″W / 38.257306°N 85.758806°W / 38.257306; -85.758806
Type performing arts center
Capacity Robert S. Whitney Hall: 2,406
Moritz von Bomhard Theatre: 619
Boyd Martin Theatre: 139
Construction
Opened November 19, 1983
Architect Caudill Rowlett Scott
Tenants
Broadway Across America, Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet, Louisville Orchestra, Stage One
Website
www.kentuckycenter.org

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. Tenants include Broadway Across America, Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet and Louisville Orchestra.

The Kentucky Center also hosts artworks by Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, John Chamberlain, Jean Dubuffet and others.

The Center was dedicated on November 19, 1983. Attendees included Charlton Heston, Diane Sawyer and Lily Tomlin. In 1984 the center hosted one of the U.S. presidential election debates between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale.

Other artists and celebrities to have used the Center's stages in the past include: Ray Charles, Jessye Norman, Tony Bennett, the Joffrey Ballet, Kathleen Battle, Jim Carrey, Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Gregory Peck, James Taylor, President Bill Clinton, Elie Wiesel, Philip Glass, Marilyn Horne, Jerry Lewis, the Bolshoi Ballet, Wynton Marsalis, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Bill Cosby, President George W. Bush, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Leontine Price, William F. Buckley, and Itzhak Perlman.


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