Audience | Kentucky Performing Arts | September 2023

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The Kentucky Center (Whitney Hall, Bomhard Theater, Clark-Todd Hall, MeX Theater) 501 West Main Street; Brown Theatre, 315 W. Broadway; and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, 724 Brent Street. Tickets: The Kentucky Performing Arts Box Office, 502.584.7777 or KentuckyPerformingArts.org. Reserve wheelchair seating or hearing

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WELCOME TO OUR 40 TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON!

Thank you for joining us this evening as we continue our 40th Anniversary Season! Recently, we kicked off the season long celebration with a free Community Celebration at the place where it all began, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. Hundreds of people from throughout our community enjoyed a day of performances and workshops from YAPA, Redline Performing Arts, Sweet G & the Shine, The Jesse Lees, Keen Dance Theatre, River City Drum Corp, StageOne Storytellers, and LaNita Rocknettes, along with art activities from The Healing Walls Project and a delightful dance party with Louisville Silent Disco.

The Season continues with exciting events to suit every taste, including the return of PNC Broadway in Louisville’s Wicked, Kentucky Opera’s production of Hansel and Gretel, Louisville Orchestra’s Lasting Legacies, StageOne Family Theatre’s Bunnicula, and Louisville Ballet’s Giselle. Kentucky Performing Arts Presents brings in a wide variety of unique programming including the Academy-Award Winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Live in Concert, the hilarious Nurse Blake, and the incomparable Dance Theatre of Harlem. I encourage you to visit our website, KentuckyPerformingArts.org , to see the full calendar.

We hope you enjoy tonight’s programming and thank you for your support as we continue our work of connecting and inspiring through the arts.

Kim Baker President and CEO, Kentucky Performing Arts

P.S. Before tonight’s event, scan this QR code to see a short video of Kentucky Performing Arts’ history.

To learn more about Kentucky Performing Arts, please scan this QR code or visit KentuckyPerformingArts.org/About-KPA

SEPT 29, 2023–JAN 7, 2024

AMERICAN ART FROM THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM

Tickets at speedmuseum.org

This exhibition is made possible by the leadership support of the Terra Foundation for American Art and organized by the Princeton University Art Museum.

Additional major support provided by:

Carol Sharpe Harper, Grafton

Harper and Spencer Harper III

DAV FAM Art Fund

Carol and Tracy Farmer

Max and Ellen Shapira

Media sponsor

Exhibition season sponsored by: Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein

Sociable Weaver Foundation

Debra and Ronald Murphy

DAV FAM Art Fund

Detail: Renee Cox, born 1960, Colgate, Jamaica; active New York, NY

The Signing, 2018, printed 2022

Inkjet print

28 3/4 x 84 in.

Princeton University Art Museum Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art © Renee Cox

Kentucky Performing Arts presents

BLUEY’S BIG PLAY

Friday, September 15 - Sunday, September 17, 2023

The Kentucky Center – Whitney Hall

When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that bean bag. Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music by Bluey composer, Joff Bush. Join the Heelers in their first live theatre show made just for you, featuring brilliantly

created puppets, this is Bluey as you’ve never seen it before, brought to real life. Bluey’s Big Play is presented by BBC Studios and Andrew Kay in association with Windmill Theatre Co.

CAST

CHARLES BALL (Bandit/ Pat) Charles earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) from QUT in 2014. Through various artistic

collaborations and a continually evolving personal practice, he has created and performed works around Australia and internationally in multiple disciplines including contemporary dance, ballet, theatre, aerial, and puppetry. Charles has performed with Queensland Theatre, Queensland Ballet, Opera Australia, Legs on the Wall, Dead Puppet Society, Red Leap Theatre, The Farm, Broad Encounters, Expressions Dance Company and he was part of the Australian national tour of Bluey's Big Play. He also remains an active member of the independent dance community, frequently collaborating with local artists and researching experimental creative processes in the pursuit of meaningful and engaging original works. Charles’ choreography has been featured at Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance, Dark World Festival and The IndepenDANCE Project.

AAROD VAWSER (Bandit/Pat) Aarod

Vawser is an actor, writer, video editor and puppeteer, and is thrilled to be a part of Bluey’s Big Play as it tours the US. In 2020, Aarod graduated with an Honours degree in Drama at Flinders University. He is a co-founder of South Australian theatre company, the CRAM Collective. He has co-produced and starred in productions for CRAM since its conception in 2021. He has won awards for his playwriting and filmmaking. These include a merit award for the Flinders University & STCSA Young Playwrights Award for his play We Need To Talk About Julia, and an award at Orlando Filmapalooza for the 48-hour film competition. Two short films he co-created were shortlisted for Helpmann Awards. He was Assistant Director of the Flying Penguin production of David

Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, directed by David Mealor. Aarod works as a video editor and filmographer for Replay Creative. He is a proud member of MEAA.

CHRIS WHITE (Bandit/ Pat) Chris White is a passionate actor and singer from the Gold Coast, Australia. Fresh off the back of the Australian tour of Bluey’s Big Play (HVK), he is extremely excited to tour the USA for the first time. Previously, Chris was a member of internationally renowned children’s entertainment group Hi-5 and in the Male Ensemble for pop-sensation Adele’s World Tour. He has also performed for Prince Charles and created original content with the Yellow Wiggle, Greg Page. Television appearances include Young Officer in “Nautilus” (Disney+)

and Cheeko in “Team Rescue” (ABC Kids). Theatrical highlights include Simon Gallaher’s The Pirates of Penzance, Johnny Casino in Grease: The Arena Experience (HRTC), Roger in RENT (Brisbane Powerhouse), Chris in Miss Saigon (HOTA), Ken in Barbie: Anything is Possible (Pen2Stage - Dubai), Sky in Mamma Mia! (Packemin), Jeremy in Sentinel Chickens (JUTE) and the development of new musicals, State of Origin: The Musical & Julie (QPAC).

RACHEL BURKE (Bingo)

Rachel is a graduate of Flinders University

Drama Centre in South Australia. Since graduating in 2015, she has performed in Beep (Windmill Theatre), Macbeth, A Doll’s House, In the Club, Sense and Sensibility (STCSA Ensemble), Jasper Jones and Decameron 2.0 (STCSA), Angelique (isthisyours?), Cranky Bear, The Lighthouse (Patch), Limit, Red Sky Morning (STCSA Umbrella), Tartuffe (STCSA/Brink), The Wolves (RUMPUS), Speak Out (ActNow), Foolz (Flinders University), My Beautiful Radio Station (Expressway Arts), and This Storm (The Unrest Cure). Her screen credits include “Beep and Mort” (Windmill Pictures) and the webseries “Dead Centre” (Jupeter Films). She directed Di and Viv and Rose (RUMPUS), worked as assistant director on Girls and Boys (STCSA), As One (Tiny Bricks) and Love and Information (Flinders Drama Centre) and was an Intimacy Consultant on Requiem (Adelaide Festival).

JOANNA HALLIDAY (Bingo) Born and raised in Melbourne, Joanna has trained in Music Theatre at Showfit and completed her Bachelor in Acting at The

Victorian College of the Arts. Upon graduating in 2018 Joanna debuted as Juliet in Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet (dir. Jennifer Sarah Dean). Since then she has performed as Gwendolen Carr in Travesties (dir. Jennifer Sarah Dean), Cherie in Blackrock (dir. Nicola Bowman), As You Like It (dir. Jennifer Sarah Dean), A Comedy of Errors (dir Ben Adams). In 2019 Joanna appeared in the feature film “Ride Like a Girl” as Young Burnadette, featuring Sam Neill and Teresa Palmer (dir. Rachel Griffiths.) and has guest appeared in “Miss Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, Come Die with Me” (dir Lynn Hegarty). Joanna is trained in singing, classical piano, violin, and classical dance. Joanna has been involved with Bluey’s Big Play since March 2020 and has played various roles since! This USA tour she’s excited to be playing Bingo… for real life!

JESS MINAS (Bingo)

Jess Minas is an Adelaide based artist working in dance, theatre, puppetry, and film. Jess danced in Anifex’s award winning stop motion animation titled “The Better Angels” (2019). In 2020, Jess began working as a puppeteer for Windmill Theatre Company and HVK Productions on their Australian tour of Bluey’s Big Play, directed by Rosemary Myers. Jess worked as Movement Director on Lachlan Barnett’s ActNow Theatre MakeSpace Residency (2021) whilst also puppeteering on Windmill Pictures production of “Beep and Mort”, supported by the ABC. Most recently Jess worked as a dancer/ collaborator on “Projekt Moxie”, directed by Lina Limosani and Daniel Jaber (2022), as well as “Dance Launchpad” a dance double bill directed by Tobiah Booth-Remmers and Amanda Phillips, produced by The

Mill Adelaide (2022). Jess’s choreographic/ directorial achievements include “Salute” (2020) as part of “Rip Drag and Ruminate” in the Adelaide Fringe Festival, winning Best Dance Show at the Adelaide Fringe Awards (2020), as well as two movementbased short films, “Snail Mail” (2020) and “Depart 222” (2022).

JESS GOLLÉ (Bluey)

Jess is a Brisbane based artist with a background in dance, acting, film and theatre. In 2019, Jess graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Communication (Entertainment Industries) with Distinction as well as establishing herself in a variety of performing roles: Performer for The Walt Disney Company (Tokyo Disneyland 2015-2018), performer for Dreamworld

and Village Roadshow Theme Parks (2013-2019) and working with the Starlight Children’s Foundation (2022-present). In late 2019, Jess went on to developing, co-ordinating and performing with Bluey Live and opened the first Bluey Live Experience in QLD as female host. Her roles and responsibilities further expanded in 2021 to Production assistant for Bluey Live Australia events. As a continuation, Jess was cast as a puppeteer for Bluey’s Big Play, Australian National Tour (2021-2022). Jess is beyond excited to now be representing Australia as part of the opening cast for Bluey’s Big Play USA tour.

JESSA KONCIC (Bluey)

Jessa is a born Melbournian! She has studied performing arts in both Australia and Indonesia. After training with the Australian Youth Theatre for 8 years, Jessa went on to graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Melbourne University, with a BFA in Acting. She also trained for a time in Bali studying Mask. Jessa joined the cast of Bluey’s Big Play in 2020.

Some of her credits include Bluey in Bluey’s Big Play (Development 2020) (National Tour 2021, 2022), Hero Woman in “A Theory of Incompleteness” (Runner up Sony Film Festival, 2021), Geb, Fidgeter, and Santa in The Great Australian Play (Theatre Works, 2020), Hunter in F***ing A (VCA, 2019), and Fefu in Fefu and her Friends (VCA, 2018).

STEPHANIE STEPHENS (Bluey) Stephanie Stephens is a dedicated performer who is passionate about bringing joy to children and families. She has

seen every episode of “Bluey” (at least twice) and is very excited to be back on stage with Bluey’s Big Play (HVK). After performing multiple roles in the show throughout Australia, she is more eager than ever to conquer America as her favorite little blue heeler. Stephanie has over 10 years of experience working with characters, including Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. She has also performed on Disney Cruise Line, Disney International Christmas Tours and completed a Disney Articulated Training course in puppetry. Other career highlights include performing alongside The Wiggles at Sydney ICC, working with Hi-5 at Marina Bay Sans in Singapore and bopping with pop sensation Ricki-Lee at the Sydney Opera House. Television appearances include “Carols in the Domain” (Channel 7), The Today Show (Channel 9), and a commercial for Disney on Ice.

LOUISA REID (Chilli)

Louisa attended the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting in 2018. Louisa first worked as a professional puppeteer on the 2021 Australian tour of Bluey's Big Play in the role of Chilli. She continues this role for the North American Tour.

ALLANAH SARAFIAN (Chilli) Allanah Sarafian is a puppeteer, visual artist and teacher originally from Brisbane and now residing in Melbourne, Australia.

Allanah began her career in the arts by studying fashion, which then morphed into working in costume, circus, and finally puppetry. While working as a performance and visual artist, Allanah also completed a primary education

qualification and has been a primary art teacher for the last eight years. Allanah’s debut into puppetry began six years ago when she started working with Trash Puppets. Since then she has performed with and built puppets for Erth Visual and Physical Inc, POPOMOCO, A Blanck Canvas, Private Function, Moomba and White Night among others. In 2022 Allanah was a participant in Lemony S Puppets' inaugural training program; Puppet Lab. Allanah enjoys working with and making art inspired by the outlook of children.

KRISTAL WALCOTT

(Chilli) Kristall Walcott is a 26 year-old Caribbean born dancer/entertainer. She started dancing when she was 8 and

professionally trained full-time at Ikin Dance on the Gold Coast. While training, Kristall received many opportunities to dance in music videos, corporate events, festivals, and musical theatre productions. Kristall’s most recent achievements outside of dance have been appearing in major feature films such as the Elvis biopic, “Godzilla vs Kong,” and Disney productions, as well as modeling for fashion brands and catwalk opportunities. However, her most exciting venture will be the upcoming US tour of Bluey’s Big Play where she will be one of the puppeteers of the character Chilli. Kristall can’t wait to step into this new role alongside amazing performers, while bringing her own brand of zany energy and child-like joy.

Kentucky Performing Arts and Icon Concerts present

STEVE TREVIÑO – AMERICA’S FAVORITE HUSBAND

Saturday, September 16, 2023 | 8:00pm | Brown Theatre

Comedian Steve Treviño is “America’s Favorite Husband.” He can “speak wife fluently,” he never calls “the guys” for help on a home project, and he knows better than to “make his own decisions,” since decision-making is a privilege reserved solely for his wife, Renae.

His relatable approach affirms his status as one of the country’s fastestrising comics, viewed over 223 million times, selling out shows coast-to-coast, amassing over 2 million total social media followers, and headlining specials for Amazon, NETFLIX, Showtime,

and more. He started cutting his teeth in Dallas, Texas, working as a door guy at the Improv and earning himself a spot to open the iconic 2001 Three Amigos Comedy Tour. He quickly earned his stripes and an audience on the comedy club circuit, and he began headlining on his own by the age of 25. He delivered side-splitting performances on The Late Late Show and Comics Unleashed, and produced and wrote for international GRAMMY® Award-winning superstar Pitbull’s La Esquina.

His first Showtime special, Grandpa Joe’s Son, staked out a spot in the Nielsen Top 20. He funded, produced, and shot his 2014 runaway NETFLIX hit Relatable. To promote the special, he uploaded a clip titled “When Your Wife Comes Home From Shopping.” It exploded, generating 56 million views on Facebook alone and paving the way for heavily shared clips such as “When You Ask Your Wife If She Wants McDonald’s” (21 million views) and “When Going to Vegas With Your Wife Goes Wrong” (4 million views). Co-produced by Nacelle, the follow-up special, Steve Trevino ’Til Death, arrived in 2018. Steve maintained his momentum by broadening his social media presence through fans redoing

bits of his comedy specials and posting them to TikTok. In less than two years, that grassroots effort helped him build a worldwide fanbase on the platform from the ground up, amassing 4.8 million likes and over 50 million views on the platform, while also changing up his entire social media game.

In 2020, he and his wife, Renae, unveiled a joint weekly podcast entitled “Steve Treviño and Captain Evil,” that has generated over 1.5 million views/streams and is now in Season 3. He also filmed his fourth self-produced comedy special, My Life in Quarantine, which was picked up by Amazon Prime. The once-in-alifetime pandemic special was shot in front of a masked, socially distant crowd and focused on the ups and downs of getting through quarantine.

He regularly raises money for Helicopters for Heroes, an organization benefiting veterans, for whom he helped raise over $1.5 million in the past two years.

Steve's self produced fifth special filmed in Waco, Texas, entitled I Speak Wife, independently released on Friday, October 21, for free exclusively to his global audience on YouTube.

www.stevetrevino.com

Kentucky Performing Arts presents

BRIAN CULBERTSON – THE TRILOGY TOUR

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | 7:30pm | The Kentucky Center – Bomhard Theater

Over the course of crafting a 25-album catalog and architecting nearly 40 Billboard No. 1 singles as a multiinstrumentalist, songwriter and producer, Brian Culbertson has charted his own unique course in music. Label him jazz and he makes a funk record. Call him an R&B artist and he drops an acoustic jazz trio collection. Brand him pop and he

creates a 32-minute New Age opus. And you’d be hard pressed to name another instrumentalist of his ilk who can mount an elaborately designed concert production that will keep him on the road for three consecutive months.

Culbertson burst onto the scene in 1994 with a chart-topping album that

he recorded in his college apartment featuring keyboard-led contemporary jazz tracks. “Long Night Out” landed him a lengthy record deal and signaled that a star was born.

Flash forward to present day, Culbertson composed thirty songs that populate the three albums in “The Trilogy” that describes the three-part arc of a longterm relationship: the hot and steamy “falling in love” phase, the rocky middle when perhaps they even break up for a bit, and the couple reunites to live “happily ever after” phase. The Trilogy Tour will feature a mix of songs from The Trilogy Albums, as well as the greatest hits from Brian Culbertson’s catalog.

“Hearing the three albums in a row provides the context. All the songs on Red (October 2021) were clearly about passion and love. Blue is melancholy and sad songs, breakup songs and ‘losing people’ songs. Once you get to part three, is all about songs that have an uplifting feel to them. Stylistically, they all feel similar even though they are emotionally broad," said Culbertson.

Possessing style, panache and a savvy business mind capable of moving the needle in music and beyond, Culbertson founded and curates the annual Napa Valley and Chicago Jazz Getaways, which have attracted guests from all over the globe to experience his premier events.

Whether you’re listening to music from “The Trilogy” on record or live in concert, you’re hearing an eclectic, entertaining and engaging set from an artist at the peak of his power.

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KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Gregory J. Bubalo, Chair • Robert M. Klein, Vice-Chair

Mary R. Nixon, Secretary • Phil Lynch, Treasurer

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Paula Harshaw

Madeline Abramson

Owsley Brown II (1942–2011)

Wendell Cherry (1935–1991)

William H. Jones

Kate Latts

Joseph Leavell

Patricia A. Mathison

James K. Murphy

DIRECTORS EMERITI

Gordon B. Davidson (1926–2015) C. Edward Glasscock

Stephen T. Owen

Dr. Rahul Reddy

Lindy Street

Rev. Dr. Valerie Washington

Sarah Yarmuth

Robert W. Rounsavall, III

Rose Lenihan Rubel (1922–2002)

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KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS ENCORE SOCIETY

The Encore Society recognizes individuals who have demonstrated support for the long-term well-being of Kentucky Performing Arts with an estate gift or notification of their bequest intention or other planned gift.

The Honorable & Mrs. Jerry E. Abramson Anonymous

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Mr. and Mrs. Don E. Parkinson

Ms. Terry H. Sales

Sharon Sanak

Ms. Helen Stockton

Mrs. Murrel Straley

Jeanne D. Vuturo

Jennifer Love Webb

ANNUAL SUPPORT

Commonwealth of Kentucky, The Honorable Andy Beshear, Governor

Tourism, Arts & Heritage Cabinet | The Honorable Lindy Casebier, Secretary | The Kentucky General Assembly

The Honorable & Mrs. Jerry E. Abramson, matched by Hardscuffle, Inc.

In Memory of Alan & Carol Adelberg

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AIA Kentucky

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David & Carolyn Tandy

Malissa Taylor

Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Thacker

Ms. Brenda Thompson

Karen Thompson

Mark & Martha Thompson

Dr. Diane Tobin & Mr. Charles Friedman

Josh & Olesia Toole

Tourism, Arts & Heritage Cabinet

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky

Bryan & Ruth Trautwein

Laura G. Turner Charitable Foundation

Bob & Vicky Ullrich

University of Kentucky

College of Design**

University of Kentucky

College of Fine Arts**

University of Kentucky

Office of the Provost**

Sally & Robert Vail

Jonathan Voet

Robert & Bonnie Vogt

Volunteers of the Kentucky Center*

Dina Vuturo

Cindy Walker

Gary Wall

Beth Ward

Russ Wardlaw

Nathan & Olivia Webb

Dr. John & Mrs. Linda Weeter

James & Marianne Welch

Ann Waterman & Niles Welch

Welch Printing**

John & Marilyn Werst

Ms. Rebecca West

WHAS 11**

Edyth Wheeler

Stephen & Patricia Wheeler

Chad & Jayne Willett

Benjamin Wiseman

Michael & Jeannie Wright

Ralph Wright

In Memory of Mrs. Irma Yatros

David F. Young & Cheryl Cahill

Dominic & Lisa Zangari

Dr. Kenneth & Shelly Zegart

Mr. Brian Zehnder & Ms. Melissa Rolf

Ms. Susan G. Zepeda & Dr. Fred P. Seifer

Mrs. Ann Zimmerman

Cynthia and Joel Zipperle

*Kentucky Performing Arts

Volunteers’ value of donated time is more than $100,000 annually

**In-Kind Donation

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT

We salute the following organizations for their support of Kentucky Performing Arts:

B. J. KILLIAN FOUNDATION

TOURISM, ARTS AND HERITAGE CABINET

THEN & NOW

Frankfort & Story Avenues, 1945 vs. 2022

The intersection of the bricked road joining Frankfort and Story Avenues forms a gateway to Butchertown, one of Louisville's largest German settlements. In the late 1900s, the area around this view of Seitz Drugs became popular as creative local residents rehabilitated houses and business venues.

In the historic photograph, the man at the left is looking at the demolition of the Bray-Robinson Clothing Co., which operated, alongside the Semple

Manufacturing Co. (makers of girths, blankets, and twine), into the 20th century.

Several decades back, two buildings on Story Avenue, including the one that housed Seitz Drugs, were removed to create direct access to the river down Ohio Street. Old Ohio Street, which connected to River Road, was renamed Frankfort Avenue to give the corridor a continuous identity from River Road to St. Matthews.

 The corner of Frankfort and Story avenues in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Photos courtesy of University of Louisville’s Archives and Special Collections.

KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS SERVICES

TICKETS

For complete event information and to order tickets by phone, call Kentucky Performing Arts Ticket Service at (502) 584-7777 or order tickets online at KentuckyPerformingArts.org . Kentucky Performing Arts Ticket Service’s hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Drive-thru ticket service is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets purchased by phone and online are subject to service charges. On performance dates, the ticket office is open one-half hour past curtain time. Gift certificates are available in any dollar amount at the Box Office and are not redeemable for cash.

MAIN PHONE NUMBER

(502) 562-0100

PARKING

More than 2,000 parking spaces offer direct access to The Kentucky Center from Sixth St. The elevators located in the garage will take you to the main lobby. You may also enter the Riverfront Garage from Fourth or Sixth Sts. Level C of the garage also will give you direct access to the main lobby. At the Brown Theatre, parking is available in the lot across from the theatre, and parking garage entrances are located on Third St., north of Broadway or on Fourth St., north of Broadway. At Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, parking is available in the neighboring Swan Street and Vine Street lots.

FACILITIES RENTAL

From a wedding reception to a convention, Kentucky Performing Arts’ venues, The Kentucky Center, the Brown Theatre and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, are the perfect place to “stage” your event. For more information, contact Stacey Hallahan, shallahan@kentuckyperformingarts.org.

KPA DONORS

Kentucky Performing Arts donors receive a variety of benefits, including buying tickets before the public, priority seating, and no handling fees. For more information, contact (502) 566-5144 or visit SUPPORT KPA on our website. For Corporate Membership benefits, contact Julie Roberts at (502) 562-0100, Ext. 105, or jroberts@kentuckyperformingarts.org .

VOLUNTEERS

The Volunteer Program offers the public a chance to be a part of the great events at The Kentucky Center, the Brown Theatre and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall. To volunteer, contact the Volunteer Hotline at (502) 566-5141.

COURTESY

• As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, please turn off all audible message systems.

• The emergency phone number to leave with babysitters or message centers are (502) 566-5128 (The Kentucky Center) and (502) 566-5188 (The Brown Theatre).

• Be sure to leave your theater and seat number for easy location.

• Cameras and recording devices are not allowed in the theaters.

• Latecomers will be seated at appropriate breaks in the program, as established by each performing group. Please be considerate of your fellow audience members during performances. Please remain seated after the performance until the lights are brought up.

• Children should be able to sit in a seat quietly throughout the performance.

• To properly enforce fire codes, everyone attending an event, regardless of age, must have a ticket.

ACCESSIBILITY

Wheelchair accessible seating at Kentucky Performing Arts venues is available on every seating and parking level, as well as ticket counters and personal conveniences at appropriate heights.

FM and infrared hearing devices are available to provide hearing amplification for patrons with hearing disabilities in all spaces of The Kentucky Center, the Brown Theatre, and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, including meeting spaces.

Audio Description is available for selected performances for patrons who are blind or have low vision.

Caption Theater is available for selected performances as a service for patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Program materials are available in large-print from your usher.

Please make reservations for services at the time you purchase your ticket through the Box Office to ensure the best seating location for the service requested. Call (502) 566-5111 (V), 711 (TRS), or email access@kentuckycenter.org for more information about the range of accessibility options we offer, or to receive this information in an alternate format.