5 Best Performing Arts Venues in Key West, The Florida Keys

Since the 1980s, the Red Barn Theatre, a small professional theater company, has performed dramas, comedies, and musicals, including works by new playwrights. Big things happen in this little theater, and it's well worth a visit while you're here.

Key West native and nationally recognized conductor Sebrina María Alfonso directs the South Florida Symphony Orchestra (formerly the Key West Symphony Orchestra). This traveling group of symphonic musicians is based in Fort Lauderdale and performs at the Glynn R. Archer Center for the Performing Arts while in Key West.

This theater hosts a variety of performing arts events, including chamber music and jazz concerts, dance performances, dramatic plays, and musicals with major stars.

Catch the classics and the latest art, independent, and foreign films shown daily in this four-screen theater. A full-concession café with beer and wine is available. This is the place to catch a show in Key West.

Home to the Key West Players, this community-run, 180-seat playhouse—in a converted, 1880s ice warehouse—presents comedy and drama from December to May. The troupe first banded together in 1940, counting Tennessee Williams among its members.