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The Broadway Theater District in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [2] With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway , it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.
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 ...
Theatres in Los Angeles — California. For motion picture theaters, see/use: ... Bob Baker Marionette Theater; Broadway (Los Angeles) Broadway Theater District (Los ...
615 S. Broadway Los Angeles, California [1] ... The Los Angeles Theatre is a 2,000-seat historic movie palace at 615 S. Broadway in the Jewelry District and Broadway ...
The Tower was the first film house in Los Angeles to be wired for talking pictures, and it was the location of the sneak preview and Los Angeles premiere of Warner Bros.' revolutionary part-talking The Jazz Singer (1927), starring Al Jolson. [8] [4] [9] It was the first theater in Los Angeles to be air conditioned. [4]
The Hollywood Pantages Theatre, also known as the Pantages is a premiere live theater venue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Productions at the Pantages have included: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Pre-1996
Palace Theatre, formerly Orpheum Theatre, Orpheum-Palace Theatre, Broadway Palace, Fox Palace, and New Palace Theatre, is a historic five-story theater and office building located at 636 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles. It is the oldest theater that remains on Broadway [3] and the oldest ...
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.