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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 ...
On May 1, 2012, it was announced that the venue would be renamed the Dolby Theatre, after Dolby Laboratories signed a 20-year naming rights deal. [12] Dolby updated the sound system first by installing Dolby Atmos. The company plans to continue updating the auditorium with newer technologies as they become available. [13]
The first site for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit was the Grand Opera House, also known as the Grand Theater, 110 S. Main Street (built 1884, closed 1937). [4] The second Orpheum venue was the Orpheum Theatre (previously known as the Los Angeles Theatre and later known as the Lyceum Theatre, at 227 S. Spring Street (opened 1888, closed 1941). [4]
Peacock Theater (previously the Nokia Theatre before June 2015 and Microsoft Theater before July 2023 [16]) is a music and theatre venue seating 7,100, and The Novo (previously Club Nokia) is a smaller venue with a seating capacity of 2,300 for live music and cultural events.
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]
Seating 900 on a tiny site (50 feet wide by 153 feet long [5]), replacing the 650-seat 1911 Garrick Theatre, [6] it was designed in powerful Baroque Revival style with innovative French, Spanish, Moorish, and Italian elements all executed in terra-cotta. [3]
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) For the record: 10:39 a.m. Aug. 26, 2022: ... Deaf West became the first regional theater company in the country led by a deaf artistic director.
Seating 1,200 at the time, it was the first Broadway-style legitimate theater venue in Los Angeles. [1] [2] [3] It opened January 19, 1927 under the name Wilkes' Vine Street Theatre. The first production was Patrick Kearney's adaption of Dreiser's An American Tragedy which had opened on Broadway in 1926.