The Alpine Valley Music Theatre is located in East Troy Wisconsin. It is a 50,000 capacity amphitheatre that was built in 1977. This Theatre has 9,500 seat pavilion and a sprawling lawn for general admission tickets. Alpine Valley is generally considered the Milwaukee stop on major tours and the Chicago stop when the act doesn't perform in Illinois. Until 1993 it was the largest amphitheater in the United States.

Many large artists have performed at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre including:

• The Grateful Dead-played at Alpine Valley 20 times, their album Dick's Picks Volume 32 was recorded here
• Phish- played here 8 times
• Guns N' Roses
• Motley Crue- filmed their video for "Same Ol' Situation" here
• Van Halen
• Boston
• Ozzfest
• Aerosmith
• Jimmy Buffet- has played here every year since 1995
• Dave Matthews Band- regarded Alpine Valley as their favorite venue to play at
• Coldplay-it was their largest American show ever as it sold out the entire venue
• Korn
• Jack Johnson
• Stevie Ray Vaughan- after playing a concert with Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, and his brother Jimmie Vaughan his helicopter crashed. He and four others were killed when the helicopter crashed into a ski hill within the Alpine Valley resort