The boss of Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall has revealed most of their audiences travel by car.
Horsecross Arts chief executive Nick Williams told councillors last week public transport - particularly in the evening - was a problem.
The arts chief raised the matter as he presented an update to Perth and Kinross Council's Scrutiny and Performance Committee on September 21.
Mr Williams said there was a "clear issue" regarding transport to and from Perth city centre.
Nick Williams said: "One of the things we know is those who say they don't attend or attend very regularly say they find transport into Perth city centre a problem of an evening especially. We know our audiences that do come nearly all drive. And so there is a clear issue there around those who cannot or do not wish to drive - especially in the darker times of the year."
Following the meeting the Local Democracy Reporting Service asked Depute Provost Andrew Parrott - who convenes PKC's Environment, Infrastructure and Economic Development Committee - for his thoughts.
The SNP Perth City Centre councillor said: " I would certainly like it very much if more people were able to attend events at the theatre and concert hall and use public transport to get to and from these venues.
"However, except perhaps within the city of Perth where there are later buses on some routes, public transport is not timetabled to serve events at Perth Concert Hall and Theatre.
"For longer distance visitors and allowing for the walk to the station the last trains are with one exception too early, Mondays to Fridays the last departures are for Inverness 2057, North of Dundee 2246, Glasgow 2246, Edinburgh 2313 and Dundee 0018."
But while Depute Provost Parrott acknowledges it is an issue he is not confident of it being one that can soon be resolved.
He said: "This is an issue that has been raised before and before 2017 late buses to destinations within the county were tried but with one or two exceptions were not attracting levels of custom that justified the subsidy provided and were withdrawn some time ago. Our financial circumstances now are not such that I believe we could realistically do an early repeat of this experiment.
"Within Perth I would hope that we can seek to keep later buses on our city routes that are suitable for Perth Theatre and Concert Hall goers but pragmatically I would limit my aspiration at present to retaining these later services."
