Orlando, Florida

===Theater and performing arts===
[[File:Dr. Phillips Center Pics 03.jpg|thumb|right|[[Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts|Dr. Phillips Center]]]]
The Orlando Metropolitan Area is home to a substantial theater population. Several professional and semi-professional houses and many community theaters include the Central Florida Ballet, Orlando Ballet, [[Orlando Shakespeare Theater]], Orlando Repertory Theatre, and IceHouse Theatre in [[Mount Dora, Florida|Mount Dora]]. [[Orlando Theatre Project]], closed in 2009. Additionally, both [[University of Central Florida]] and [[Rollins College]] (Winter Park) are home to theater departments that attract an influx of young artists to the area.

The [[Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre]] had hosted national Broadway tours on a regular basis. This venue was built in 1926 and underwent a major renovation in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityoforlando.net/venues/bob-carr/ |title=Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre |work=City of Orlando Venues |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924093846/http://www.cityoforlando.net/venues/bob-carr/ |archive-date=September 24, 2014 }}</ref> The Bob Carr has since closed due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and has yet to host a show since February 2020. While waiting on the completion of Phase II construction of the [[Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts]], the newly designated Bob Carr Theater will continue to host non-Broadway events.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Phillips Center's 3-month-out update |url=http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/on-the-town/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/7/30/dr_phillips_center_s.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122213411/http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/on-the-town/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/7/30/dr_phillips_center_s.html |archive-date=January 22, 2016 |access-date=September 23, 2014 |work=News 13: Spectrum News}}</ref>

The [[Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival]], which draws touring companies from around the world, is hosted in various venues over Orlando's Loch Haven Park every spring. At the festival, there are also readings and fully staged productions of new and unknown plays by local artists.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://orlandofringe.org/ |title=2010 Orlando Fringe Festival &#124; Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival |publisher=Orlandofringe.org |access-date=November 17, 2012}}</ref> Also in the spring, there is The Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays, hosted by Orlando Shakespeare Theater.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vroomvroomvroom.com.au/playfest/ |title=Playfest! The Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays |publisher=Vroomvroomvroom.com |access-date=March 19, 2014}}</ref> Founded in 2002, the Orlando Cabaret Festival showcases local, national, and internationally renowned cabaret artist to Mad Cow Theatre in [[Downtown Orlando]] each spring.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orlandocabaret.com/InDash_Display.aspx?PGID=164 |title=About Us – Orlando Cabaret Festival |publisher=Orlandocabaret.com |access-date=November 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508133313/http://www.orlandocabaret.com/InDash_Display.aspx?PGID=164 |archive-date=May 8, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Classical Music and Music Theater are also represented. Orlando has two professional orchestras – the Orlando Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 1991 when the Central Florida Friends of Music reorganized, and the [[Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra]], founded in 1993, the second of which also serves as the orchestra for productions of Opera Orlando, which developed when the Florida Opera Theater, founded in 2009, reorganized in 2016.