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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 ]
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.
The Regent Theatre is a live music venue and historic former movie theater in the Downtown section of Los Angeles, California. Opened as the National Theatre in 1914, it is the oldest remaining theater building on South Main Street. Following its initial status as a first-run filmhouse, it began screening second-run programming in the 1920s ...
El Capitan Theatre is a fully restored movie palace at 6838 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States.The theater and adjacent Hollywood Masonic Temple (now known as the El Capitan Entertainment Centre) are owned by The Walt Disney Company and serve as the venue for a majority of the Walt Disney Studios' film premieres.
Hollywood Theater opened on December 20, 1913, the second to open in Hollywood's emerging theater district. A 700-seat Nickelodeon, [1] it was owned by H.L. Lewis and designed in the Romanesque style by Krempel and Erkes. [2] In 1927, the theater was remodeled by Clifford Balch and in 1936, it was remodeled a second time by S. Charles Lee.
The theater, site of film premieres including Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (their first full-length animated film) and the West Coast premiere of Gone with the Wind, inspired the community to change the name from “Carthay Center” to “Carthay Circle.” [5] The theater was demolished in 1969 [7] to make way for a new office ...
The theatre was also the home of the Al Jolson show from 1936 to 1939 . [1] [2] A&P heir and arts patron Huntington Hartford bought the theatre from CBS in 1953, modernized it with design by Helen Conway, and re-opened it with 970 seats as the first legitimate theatre venue in Los Angeles in many years, [4] under the name Huntington Hartford ...
The aim was to offer Los Angeles residents exposure to innovative art forms more consistently than occasional events (e.g. 1984 Olympic Arts Festival). [ 2 ] Harvey Lichtenstein , then president and executive producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music , was brought in as a consultant during the development phases of REDCAT in 1999.