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The theatre's location at the intersection of Downtown Los Angeles’ two busiest retail streets of the early 1920s [8] ensured that the theatre was a consistent money maker. [5] At the time of the State Theatre’s opening the theatre’s projection booth was proclaimed to be the largest in the world [ 3 ] and boasted the unique feature of a ...
The theater became one of the first in the United States built specifically to show movies. [4] In 1921, a US$50,000 Wurlitzer organ was installed in the theater. [5] In 1924, Los Angeles theater proprietor H. L. Gumbinger closed the facility for renovation. The overhaul included the addition of a 16-piece house orchestra. [6]
The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall produces more than 100 programs each year, including plays, concerts, dance performances, film screenings, simulcasts, and literary readings. It was posthumously named for the matinee idol John Drew Jr. , a member of the Barrymore family who summered in East Hampton from the late 19th century to the early ...
This Los Angeles Theatre was constructed in late 1930 and early 1931. It was commissioned by H.L. Gumbiner, an independent film exhibitor from Chicago, [3] who also built the nearby Tower Theatre. [4] Designed by S. Charles Lee, [5] and Samuel Tilden Norton, the theater features a French Baroque interior.
Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, also known as Egyptian Hollywood and the Egyptian, is a historic movie theater located on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. [1] Opened in 1922, it is an early example of a lavish movie palace and is noted as having been the site of the world's first film premiere .
As of 2012, L.A. Theatre Works has visited over 200 civic and performing arts centers and university venues with numerous productions. [3] [4] In 2011, the organization began performing at the UCLA James Bridges Theatre, moving from the Los Angeles Skirball Cultural Center. [5]
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]
The 300-seat New Beverly Cinema was designed by the architects John P. Edwards and Warren Frazier Overpeck and opened in 1929, apparently as a candy store. Over the years, its name and purpose has changed several times. As a theater, it has hosted variety performers such as Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, and others