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The Mark Taper Forum opened in 1967 as part of the Los Angeles Music Center, the West Coast equivalent of Lincoln Center, designed by Los Angeles architect Welton Becket and Associates. Peter Kiewit and Sons (now Kiewit Corporation) was the builder. [1] The dedication took place on April 9, 1967, at an event attended by Governor Ronald Reagan. [2]
The STILE Downtown Los Angeles by Kasa, originally built as the California Petroleum Corporation Building and later known as the Texaco Building, is a 243 ft (74 m), 13-story highrise hotel and theater building located at 937 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California. It was the tallest building in the city for one year after its ...
The Fonda Theatre: Hollywood 1,200 1931: John Anson Ford Amphitheatre: Hollywood Hills: 1,200 [1] September 4, 1925 Alex Theatre: Glendale: 1,400 November 11, 1926: The Belasco: South Park: 1,500 2023 The Bellwether Downtown Los Angeles 1,500 Unknown Glendale Performing Arts Center Glendale 1,559 1927: The Theatre at Ace Hotel: South Park ...
L.A. Live has 5.6 million square feet (520,257 m 2) of ballrooms, bars, concert theatres, restaurants, movie theaters, and a 54-story hotel and condominium tower on a 27-acre (10.9 ha) site. [6] The complex became home to AEG and the Herbalife headquarters in 2008.
The Peacock Theater, formerly Nokia Theatre and Microsoft Theater, is a music and theater venue in downtown Los Angeles, California at L.A. Live. The theater auditorium seats 7,100 [ 2 ] and holds one of the largest indoor stages in the United States.
In the 1910s, Main Street in Los Angeles was home to about 20 small theaters. The National Theatre opened in February 1914, replacing a smaller predecessor of the same name. In 1917, the National was renamed as the Regent Theatre. In the 1920s, the emerging Broadway Theater District and its newer, more luxurious movie palaces began drawing
The theatre's location at the intersection of Downtown Los Angeles’ two busiest retail streets of the early 1920s [8] ensured that the theatre was a consistent money maker. [5] At the time of the State Theatre’s opening the theatre’s projection booth was proclaimed to be the largest in the world [ 3 ] and boasted the unique feature of a ...
The theatre was also the home of the Al Jolson show from 1936 to 1939 . [1] [2] A&P heir and arts patron Huntington Hartford bought the theatre from CBS in 1953, modernized it with design by Helen Conway, and re-opened it with 970 seats as the first legitimate theatre venue in Los Angeles in many years, [4] under the name Huntington Hartford ...