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The Cameo Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California. Opened by film mogul W. H. Clune as Clune's Broadway Theatre in 1910, it was one of the first purpose-built movie theaters in the United States. It remained the oldest continually operating movie theater in Los Angeles until its closure in 1991.
The theater reopened on August 30, 2008, for the first preview of John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves. [4] The Taper, as originally designed, was a case study in what happens when a theater is built without a tenant in mind. Fitting the auditorium into the circular building left a tiny backstage and only a narrow, curved hallway for a lobby. [3]
1925 advertisement for the new Arrow Theater. The first theater on the site of the current Downtown Independent opened in 1924 as the Arrow Theater. [3] The original owner, George Carpenter, had commissioned John E. Kunst to design a picture theater. The building included a pipe organ, two stores and auditorium seating for 500. [4]
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The Emoji Movie premiere, Westwood Village. The Regency Village Theatre (formerly the Fox Theatre, Westwood Village or the Fox Village Theatre) is a historic, landmark cinema in Westwood, Los Angeles, California in the heart of the Mediterranean-themed shopping and cinema precinct, opposite the Fox Bruin Theater, near the University of California, Los Angeles ().
Later in its tenure as a movie theater, the Regent served as a grindhouse and ultimately became an all-night adult movie theater. The venue ceased its operation as a cinema in 2000 after 86 years. The building remained unused until 2006 when a local developer acquired the lease and used it occasionally for performing arts events. [1]
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 Los Angeles Theatre is a 2,000-seat historic movie palace at 615 S. Broadway in the Jewelry District and Broadway Theater District in the historic core of Downtown Los Angeles. History [ edit ]