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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

The Grand Dame of Louisville has been raising her velvet curtain for a century. The W. L. Lyons Brown Theatre at 315 West Broadway opened on 5 October 1925 with Elsie Janis in the revue Puzzles of 1925, built by hotel magnate J. Graham Brown beside his adjacent Brown Hotel and modeled on New York's famous Music Box Theatre - an ornate Neo-Classical house by architect Preston J. Bradshaw with a fan-shaped auditorium, a lavish lobby and a 40-by-40-foot stage that Louisville boasted was the equal o...