Los Angeles Theater - Showcasing Great LA Talents

Los Angeles along with New York City is one ofCenter. A lot of popular movie personalities
the United States' seats of American theater.started out in this Los Angeles theater and
Being the largest city in the state of California andstarred in dramas and musicals. It has a seating
the second largest in the whole of the Unitedcapacity of 1,600 to 2,100 and it has an
States, it is expected that it would produce lotsall-year-round season ticket subscription, the
of talented people. The city serves home tolargest one in the West Coast area.
famous and struggling movie stars, directors, and2.The Mark Taper Forum. This theater is named
writers. The Los Angeles theater scene is quiteafter Mark Taper, a known real estate developer,
common even outside of the theater itself.and is located on Bunker Hill. It has a seating
Amidst the buzzing performers and tossing ofcapacity of 739 and was opened as the smallest
movie tickets, are the great Los Angeles theatersbranch of the Los Angeles Music Center in 1967.
built by great engineers and architects dating backThe building resembles the Carousel Theater of
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Disneyland.
The Theater and Its Branches3.The Geffen Playhouse. This Los Angeles theater
The theater is where artists can express thewas originally built in 1929 and was purchased by
different ways of using elements of speech,the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) in
dance, gesture, and music. Artists are given the1993. A non-profit performing theater, this is
opportunity to isolate themselves in time andfound in the Westwood area of the city. It offers
space and become another being for others tofive plays every season for its main stage and
watch and inspire. Theater shows can be in thethree to four plays on its second stage. Many
form of drama, musical, and comedy. Drama isknown television and movie personalities are
the branch where speech is very much relevant.among the cast of the stage plays presented in
Musical shows mostly combine songs, music,this theater.
spoken dialogue, and some dance routines,4.The Kodak Theater is found on Hollywood
coupled with spectacular and colorful costumesBoulevard and has been the venue of the Annual
and sets; a perfect example would be theOscars Academy Awards since it opened in 2001.
Broadway musicals.The theater was designed by the Rockwell Group
A List of Los Angeles Theaterswith the Oscars as their inspiration so that it has
1.The Ahmanson Theater. The theater wasone of the largest seating capacities among the
constructed in 1962 and opened for public fivemany Los Angeles theaters in the whole of United
years after. It was generously donated by RobertStates. The theater is obviously named after the
H. Ahmanson and is now considered one amongKodak Company, its sponsor who paid a
four locations comprising the Los Angeles Musicwhooping $75 million for its construction.