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The Kentucky Center

Everything the open record has on The Kentucky Center, a performing-arts centre in Louisville, Kentucky — address, size, access and the events it carries.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Opened
1983
43 years old
From SDF
9 km (5.6 mi)
Louisville International Airport
From the centre
0.3 km (0.2 mi)
of Louisville

Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.

What The Kentucky Center is

It stands at 501 West Main Street Louisville, right in the centre of Louisville.

The Kentucky Center was opened in 1983 and owned by Kentucky Performing Arts, which puts it at 43 years old.

Neither a capacity nor a floor area is published for The Kentucky Center in any open source, so the numbers on this page describe where it is and what it is, not how many it holds. The venue will quote you directly.

Address
501 West Main Street Louisville, KY 40202
Owner
Kentucky Performing Arts
Coordinates
38.2573, -85.7588
Classified as
performing-arts centre

Getting there

Allow half an hour each way to Louisville International Airport (SDF), 9 km (5.6 mi) away, and rather more if your first session starts during the morning peak.

Being 0.3 km (0.2 mi) from the middle of Louisville means attendees can walk from their hotel, which removes the single most complained-about line in most event budgets.

Louisville has 58 venues mapped in total and a population of 640,796. The Louisville guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

Formats this suits

A fixed-seat house suits a single-track programme: keynotes, panels, award ceremonies and film. It does not suit a trade floor, banqueting or anything that needs the seats to move, so pair it with a nearby function room if you need both.

  • award ceremonies

    Fixed seating, sightlines and a lighting rig are the hard parts, and they are already here.

  • product launches

    A single-track room with a real stage is the right shape for a launch.

  • multi-track conferences

    Works as a plenary house with breakouts booked elsewhere in the city.

Pricing a full house here

A The Kentucky Center programme at 240 activated attendees — a plausible programme at a venue of this kind in Louisville — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.

activated attendees
240activated attendees
billable, after the first 50 are free
190billable, after the first 50 are free
for the whole event, at $5 each
$950for the whole event, at $5 each

You are billed for people, not for the room, so this figure does not change if you move the event down the road. event67 has no floor-plan or booking product — the venue handles the space, the app handles the people in it.

1,000
activated attendees at The Kentucky Center, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

Nearby alternatives

4 other venues in Louisville have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.

Where these numbers come from

event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

  • Wikidata, CC0
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 7 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: street address, year opened, owner, official website, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance, photograph on Wikimedia Commons.

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What it costs

Free up to 50
activated attendees, on one live event
$5
per activated attendee beyond 50
$4,750
the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000

Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

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Questions people actually ask

What is the capacity of The Kentucky Center?

Not published. Neither a seated capacity nor a floor area for The Kentucky Center appears in any of the open sources behind this page, so quoting one would be a guess. The venue will give you the figure; ask for seated, theatre and reception separately.

Where is The Kentucky Center?

501 West Main Street Louisville, KY 40202. It is 0.3 km (0.2 mi) from the centre of Louisville. The nearest major airport is Louisville International Airport (SDF), about 9 km (5.6 mi) away.

What does an event app cost for an event at The Kentucky Center?

240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. That example is a plausible programme at a venue of this kind in Louisville. The rate is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

Is event67 affiliated with The Kentucky Center?

No. event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and public census sources — and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

What else is nearby if The Kentucky Center is booked?

Owsley B. Frazier Stadium (2,000), W. L. Lyons Brown Theatre (1,400) and Derby Dinner Playhouse are in the same city and have their own pages here. 58 venues in total are mapped in Louisville.

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