Louisville has a captivating and very busy art scene. So many theater productions, so much music and plenty of dancing. Our city shines with the creative arts. Here are a selection of events and arts companies that we enjoy.
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- Kids These Days - Aug. 26-27, 2022
- Coppelia - Oct. 6-8, 2022
- Celebrating Alun - Nov. 4-5, 2022
- The Brown-Forman Nutcracker - Dec. 9-23, 2022
- Chorshow - Jan. 25-29, 2023
- Spotlight Series: Women in Focus - March 2-4, 2023
- La Sylphide with Scotch Symphony - April 13-15, 2023
- Oct. 21-23, 27-30, 2022
- Season 9 opener - Oct. 2, 2022
- Takács String Quartet - Oct. 23, 2022
- Curtis On Tour: Eric Owens and Singers from Curtis Opera Theatre - Nov. 20, 2022
- Merz Trio - March 19, 2023
- Dover Quartet - April 15, 2023
- Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown - Sept. 1, 2022
- Petty Nicks – The Iconic Tribute to Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks - Sept. 17, 2022
- Southern Soul Music Festival - Sept. 18, 2022
- The Magic and the Wonder - Oct. 8, 2022
- La bohème - Sept. 23, 25, 27, 29 and October 2, 2022
- María de Buenos Aires - Nov. 11 and 13, 2022
- The Gift of the Magi - Dec. 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 2022
- Cinderella - Feb. 24 and 26, 2023
- Shawnee Park - Sept. 11, 2022
- Swing, Swagger & Sway - Sept. 16, 2022
- Swing, Swagger & Sway - Sept.17, 2022
- Pops Opening Night with Kelli O’Hara - Sept. 24, 2022
- Radical Romanticism - Oct. 14-15 2022
- Disney In Concert: Music and Film - Oct. 30, 2022
- Philharmonia Fantastique - Nov. 12, 2022
- Tchaikovsky’s 4th - Nov. 18-19, 2022
- Jingle Bell Concert - Nov. 26, 2022
- Handel’s Messiah - Dec. 2, 2022
- Fifths of Beethoven - Jan. 13-14, 2023
- Lights, Camera, Action! - Jan. 22, 2023
- Pops: Hollywood’s Golden Age - Jan. 28, 2023
- The Gilded Age of Paris and Vienna - Feb. 3-4 2023
- Pops: Aretha: A Tribute - Feb. 25, 2023
- Festival of American Music: Journeys of Faith - March 4, 2023
- Festival of American Music: The Literary Influence - March 10 & 11, 2023
- Pops: Decades: Back to the 80’s - March 18, 2023
- Cultures Crossing - March 26, 2023
- Rachmaninoff - March 31, 2023
- Classics: Rach & Bartok - April 1, 2023
- Pops: The Texas Tenors - April 7, 2023
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in Concert - April 21, 2023
- From Silence To Splendor - May 12-13, 2023
- Music of the Stars - Nov. 6, 2022
- All Seasons Change - Nov. 20, 2022
- Discovery Concert - Nov. 21, 2022
- Holiday Legends, Lights, and Lore - Dec. 11, 2022
- Dracula - Sept. 7-18, 2022
- Fannie: The Music And Life Of Fannie Lou Hamer - Oct. 12-23, 2022
- A Christmas Carol: Ghost Story - Dec. 14-23, 2022
- Extra Crispy Improv - Third Fridays Aug. - Dec. 2022
- Improv Anonymous - First Saturdays Aug. - Dec. 2022
- Bette’s Burlesque - Aug. 19-20, 2022
- Comedians Michael Henry & Tim Murray - Aug. 26, 2022
- The Ten-Tucky Festival of 10-Minute Plays - Sept. 15-24, 2022
- Wayward Actors’ Company and Theatre Reprise! presents The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Holmes - Oct. 6-8, 13-15, 2022
- It’s Still A Wonderful Life - Nov. 11-20, 2022
- The Kings of Christmas - Dec. 8-23, 2022
- Bootstraps Volume 1.1: One Act Plays Showcasing New & Emerging Directors - Dec. 1-4, 2022
- Anastasia - Aug. 2-7, 2022
- Jagged Little Pill - Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 2022
- Fiddler on the Roof - Oct. 18-23, 2022
- Pretty Woman - Nov. 29 - Dec. 4, 2022
- Annie - Feb. 14 - 19, 2023
- Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations - April 11-16, 2023
- Hadestown - May 16-21, 2023
- To Kill a Mockingbird - June 20-25, 2023
- “Indecent” with after show discussions
- Aug. 4 - Intersectionality of Jewishness, Blackness and Queerness - Keith McGill, Nationally Acclaimed Standup Comic
- Aug. 6 - An INDECENT Talkback - Dr. Janna Segal, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at University of Louisville
- Aug. 7 - Exile - Rabbi Ben Freed and Ariane Barrie-Stern, Artist-in-Residence, from Keneseth Israel. This talk is on Tisha B’Av, commemorating the destruction of the ancient Temple and the Jewish diaspora.
- Aug. 11 - Jewish Music - Cantors Sharon Hordes, Keneseth Israel and David Lipp, Adath Jeshurun
- Aug. 13 - Interfaith Paths to Peace, Dr. Jud Hendrix
- Aug. 14 - About “God of Vengeance” the original Yiddish play by Sholem Asch, with the YIDDISH THEATRE ENSEMBLE, (Berkeley, CA).
- TEATRON will stream from July 31 - Aug. 21, 2022
- CenterStage: A Century Of Entertainment - Aug. 25-29, 2022
- Falsettos - October 27, 29-31, 2022, Nov. 3, 2022
- The King’s Revue - Dec. 10, 2022
- 13: The Musical - Feb. 23, 25-27, March 2, 4, 5, 2023
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - May 11, 13-15, 18, 20, & 21, 2023
- The Diary Of Anne Frank - April 13, 15 & 16, 2023
- The Chamber Theatre will be returning in Spring 2023 with two new productions. Watch thechambertheatre.com for updates.
- Footloose September 9-11, 16-18 2022
- A Christmas Carol November 11-13, 18-20 2022
- The Nerd January 13-15, 20-22 2023
- Moon Over Buffalo March 10-12, 17-19 2023
- Something Rotten May 12-14, 19-21 2023
- Misery - August 17-21, 2022
- The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz - January 19-29, 2023
- Our Town - October 12-22, 2022
- The Selkie Wife - November 10-19, 2022
- IDEAS at CTC Reading Series - January 20-21, 2023
- Young Playwrights Festival - February 9-18, 2023
- Young Company Presents: Little Women - March 9-18, 2023
- Young American Shakespeare Festival - May 11-23, 2023
- Straight Outta the Nursery - August 5-7, 11-13, 2022
- Little Miss Sunshine The Musical - October 21-23 & 28-30, 2022
- A Tuna Christmas - December 9-11 & 16-18, 2022
- Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest - February 17-29 & 26-28, 2023
- The Wizard of Oz - July 6-August 21, 2022
- Bright Star - August 24-October 2, 2022
- Murder on the Orient Express - October 5-November 13, 2022
- Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! - October 8-November 12, 2022
- White Christmas - November 15-December 31, 2022
- Santa Claus the Musical - November 19-December 23, 2022
- Grumpy Old Men the Musical - January 4-February 12, 2023
- Young Frankenstein - February 15-March 26, 2023
- Escape to Margaritaville - March 29-May 24, 2023
- Ragtime - September 7-11, September 14-18, 2022
- Every Brilliant Thing - September 8-10, 2022
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood - November 11-20, 2022
- Twelfth Night - January 12-14, 2023
- Anything Goes - March 10-19, 2023
- Into The Woods - April 13-16, 2023
- Ken Ludwig’s The Gods of Comedy - October 7-9, 13-16, 2022
- A Dickens Christmas Carol, A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts - December 2-4, 8-11, 2022
- Things My Mother Taught Me - February 3-5, 9-12, 2023
- Arsenic and Old Lace - March 24- 26, 30, 31, April 1, 2, 2023
- Writing My Own Obituary - June 2-4, 8-11, 2023
- Musical of Musicals - September 23-October 2, 2022
- Seussical the Musical - November 11-13, 18-20, 2022
- Mary Poppins - March 3-5,10-12, 2023
- Shakespeare’s R&J - August 8-28, 2022
- The Legend of Georgia McBride - September 2-4, 8-11, 15-18, 2022
- The Girl Crazy Queer’s Guide to Fairy Tale Classification - October 2022
- Unexpected Joy - November 4-6, 10-13, 17-20, 2022
- Dot - January 13-15, 20-22, 26-29, 2023
- It Shoulda Been You - March 10-12, 16-19, 23-26, 2023
- Godspell - April 28-30, May 11-14, 18-21, 2023
- Sister Act : A Divine Musical Comedy - Aug. 26-28, 2022
- The Lion King Jr. - Sept. 15-25, 2022
- Frankenstein - Oct. 20-30, 2022
- A Christmas Carol - Dec. 1-11, 2022
- She Loves Me - Feb. 2-12, 2023
- Telling Tales - March 4, 2023
- The Women of Lockerbie - April 14-23, 2023
- As You Like It - May 11-21, 2023
- Shakesperience! - June 2023
- Last Stop On Market Street - Oct. 15, 22, 29, 2022 *Sensory Friendly performance Oct. 22 at 2 p.m.
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Dec. 3, 10, 17, 2022 *Sensory Friendly performance Dec. 10 at 5 p.m.
- The Giver - Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 2023 *Sensory Friendly performance Feb. 4 at 5 p.m.
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - March 25, April 1, 15, 2023 *Sensory Friendly performance April 1 at 2pm
- Storytellers Series - Back to School - Aug. 6, 2022 Theme: Back to School
- Storytellers Series - Grandparents Day - Sept. 10, 2022
- Storytellers Series - Gingerbread Man - Oct. 1, 2022
- Storytellers Series - Halloween/Fall Fest - Oct. 29, 2022
- Storytellers Series - Thankfulness - Nov. 19, 2022
- Storytellers Series - Trying Something New - Jan. 7, 2023
- Storytellers Series - Bedtime Stories/PJ Party - Feb. 18, 2023
- Storytellers Series - Audience Pick - March 18, 2023
- Storytellers Series - Fitting In and Standing Out - April 15, 2023
- Storytellers Series - It’s a Jungle Out There - May 20, 2023
- Blood at the Root - September 2022
- Gloria - November 2022
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - February 2023
- Fairview - April 2023
- Murder Behind the Curtain - Saturday Evenings September 17-November 5, 2022
- Sherlock Holmes: Silenced Night November 19-January 7, 2023
- Murder by the Sea: The Dark Veil Mystery - February 11-April 1, 2023
- The Case of the Reluctant Mummy - dates TBA
- Mohsin Hamid: The Last White Man - August 8, 2022
- Colson Whitehead in conversation with Adam Serwer - August 9, 2022
- Ellen Hagan with Olivia A. Cole and Danni Quintos - August 13, 2022
- Drag Queen Storytime in Kentucky - August 20, 2022
- Cynthia Newberry Martin with Katy Yocom - August 25, 2022
- Kim Kelly: Fight Like Hell - October 13, 2022
- Poetry Writing Workshop - August 13 & 20, 2022
- KMAC Poetry Slams - Last Saturdays August - December 2022
- October 28 & 29, 2022
- MaxwellSounds Presents: Roots 101 Poetry Slam - Third Tuesdays August - Dec. 2022
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