Pioneer Playhouse
The Pioneer Playhouse is an outdoor theater located in Danville, Kentucky. Founded in 1950, it is the oldest outdoor theater in the state. Past performers of note have included John Travolta, Lee Majors, Bo Hopkins, and Jim Varney. The outdoor theater movement in Kentucy theater began with the Pioneer Playhouse. According to the official site, the founder "built the theatre by acquiring many of the construction materials in unorthodox ways. He once bartered a fifth of whiskey for hand-hewn two hundred-year-old rafter beams and hired prisoners from the local county jail to help him lay the first foundations."
External link The Pioneer Playhouse official web site
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