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The Mayfair Music Hall was an English music hall-styled vaudeville theater devised and created by entrepreneur Milt Larsen, located in Santa Monica, California. The theater was originally designed by architect Henry C. Hollwedel, and built in 1910 as the Santa Monica Opera House. On December 12, 1911, it opened under the new name Majestic Theater.
The Mayan Theater is a prototypical example of the many ornate exotic revival-style theaters of the late 1920s, Mayan Revival in this case. The well-preserved lobby is called "The Hall of Feathered Serpents," the auditorium includes a chandelier based on the Aztec calendar stone , and the original fire curtain included images of Mayan jungles ...
Metropolitan Theatres was founded by Joseph Corwin in 1923. [2] At the time, the Corwin family operated almost every movie theater in downtown Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District, the city's premiere theater venue until Hollywood was built up in the 1920s and 30s.
The Microsoft-branded theater in downtown Los Angeles will be no more: The L.A. Live venue owned by AEG will be renamed the Peacock Theater.
The Los Angeles Daily Times described the Mayfair as "commanding an unusually beautiful view of the city, the mountains and the Hollywood area" and noted that it was located "only a short ride from Broadway, yet out of the congested traffic district". [3] On May 16, 1929, the Mayfair hosted the afterparty of the 1st Academy Awards. [2]
The Geffen Playhouse (or the Geffen) is a not-for-profit theater company founded by Gilbert Cates in 1995. It produces plays in two theaters in Geffen Playhouse, which is owned by University of California Los Angeles. The Playhouse is located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was named for donor David Geffen.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) For the record : 10:39 a.m. Aug. 26, 2022 : An earlier version of this article erroneously said Oedipus is played by a hearing actor.
The STILE Downtown Los Angeles by Kasa, is a limited-service boutique hotel and former office tower located at 937 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California. It is home to the accompanying theatre, The United Theater on Broadway. It was the tallest building in the city for one year after its completion in 1927, and was the tallest ...