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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.
The building, which extends half a block along 7th St and one-third of a block along Broadway, was the largest brick-clad building in the world when it was completed [6] and remains one of the largest brick-clad buildings in Los Angeles today. [5] The theatre originally boasted two marquees [5] with entrances on both Broadway and 7th. The 7th ...
Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District stretches for six blocks from Third to Ninth Streets along South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, and contains twelve movie theaters built between 1910 and 1931. In 1986, Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith called the district "the only large concentration of vintage movie theaters left in America." [4]
Broadway, until 1890 Fort Street, is a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California, United States.The portion of Broadway from 3rd to 9th streets, in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, was the city's main commercial street from the 1910s until World War II, and is the location of the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, the first and largest historic theater district ...
The Wiltern Theatre is located at the western edge of the Los Angeles neighborhood of Koreatown, at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. The Koreatown district is served by bus and Metro Rail; the Wiltern Theatre sits directly across from the Wilshire/Western Station, currently the westernmost station of the D Line subway.
The Roundabout Theatre Company production, which officially opens Oct. 1 at the Todd Haimes Theatre in New York City, stars Kim, 56, as DHH — a character based off Hwang himself.
The Orpheum Theatre at 842 S. Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles opened on February 15, 1926, as the fourth and final Los Angeles venue for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit. [3] After a $3 million renovation, started in 1989, it is the most restored of the historical movie palaces in the city. Three previous theatres also bore the name Orpheum ...
The Mayan Theater opened in August 1927 as a performance arts theater specializing in musical comedy. [1]Leon Hefflin Sr. rented out the Mayan Theater downtown Los Angeles to produce the Sweet N' Hot, "Greatest Negro All Star Musical to Hit Coast."