Editing Louisville, Kentucky (section)

===Performing arts===
[[File:The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts.jpg|thumb|[[The Kentucky Center]] in [[Downtown Louisville]]]]
{{Main|Performing arts in Louisville, Kentucky}}
{{See also|Theater in Kentucky|List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area}}

[[The Kentucky Center]], dedicated in 1983, located in the downtown hotel and entertainment district, features a variety of plays and concerts. This is also the home of the [[Louisville Ballet]], [[Louisville Orchestra]], [[Bourbon Baroque]], [[Actors Theatre of Louisville]], StageOne Family Theatre, [[Kentucky Shakespeare Festival]], which operates the oldest professional outdoor Shakespeare festival, and the [[Kentucky Opera]], which is the twelfth oldest [[opera]] in the United States.

[[Actors Theatre of Louisville]] presents approximately six hundred performances of about thirty productions annually. From 1976 to 2021, it hosted the [[Humana Festival of New American Plays]], a month-long festival of plays in the spring; the last festival took place virtually due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. The event was discontinued after the festival's chief sponsor, the Humana Foundation, refocused its philanthropic endeavors to support health-based initiatives.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wdrb.com/news/humana-festival-comes-to-an-end-as-actors-theatre-of-louisville-makes-plan-to-support/article_51d3a054-a165-11ec-a9ce-3fbdcf02873a.html|title=Humana Festival comes to an end as Actors Theatre of Louisville makes plan to support new works|date=March 11, 2022|work=[[WDRB]]|access-date=February 27, 2024|archive-date=April 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401032219/https://www.wdrb.com/news/humana-festival-comes-to-an-end-as-actors-theatre-of-louisville-makes-plan-to-support/article_51d3a054-a165-11ec-a9ce-3fbdcf02873a.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Louisville Orchestra was founded in 1937 by conductor [[Robert Whitney (conductor)|Robert Whitney]]. The orchestra today performs more than 125 concerts per year. The orchestra won the [[66th Annual Grammy Awards|2024 Grammy Award]] for "Best Classical Instrumental Solo".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sergio |first1=Arianna |title='I didn't have any speech prepared' {{!}} Louisville Orchestra's Teddy Abrams says winning Grammy was 'a bit of a shock' |url=https://www.whas11.com/article/entertainment/music/louisville-orchestras-teddy-abrams-grammy-award-kentucky/417-ab283ab6-83dd-47e4-8f9c-fdc85aa3b8ff |access-date=June 22, 2024 |work=[[WHAS-TV|WHAS11]] |date=February 7, 2024 |archive-date=September 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923064444/https://www.whas11.com/article/entertainment/music/louisville-orchestras-teddy-abrams-grammy-award-kentucky/417-ab283ab6-83dd-47e4-8f9c-fdc85aa3b8ff |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Palace Theatre (Louisville, Kentucky)|Palace Theatre]] is an ornate theatre in [[downtown Louisville]]'s theatre district which shows [[film]]s and hosts concerts.

[[Iroquois Park]] is the home of the renovated Iroquois Amphitheater, which hosts a variety of musical concerts in a partially covered outdoor setting.