| Los Angeles along with New York City is one of | | | | Center. 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 and | | | | starred in dramas and musicals. It has a seating |
| the second largest in the whole of the United | | | | capacity of 1,600 to 2,100 and it has an |
| States, it is expected that it would produce lots | | | | all-year-round season ticket subscription, the |
| of talented people. The city serves home to | | | | largest one in the West Coast area. |
| famous and struggling movie stars, directors, and | | | | 2.The Mark Taper Forum. This theater is named |
| writers. The Los Angeles theater scene is quite | | | | after 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 of | | | | capacity of 739 and was opened as the smallest |
| movie tickets, are the great Los Angeles theaters | | | | branch of the Los Angeles Music Center in 1967. |
| built by great engineers and architects dating back | | | | The building resembles the Carousel Theater of |
| in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. | | | | Disneyland. |
| The Theater and Its Branches | | | | 3.The Geffen Playhouse. This Los Angeles theater |
| The theater is where artists can express the | | | | was 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 the | | | | 1993. A non-profit performing theater, this is |
| opportunity to isolate themselves in time and | | | | found in the Westwood area of the city. It offers |
| space and become another being for others to | | | | five plays every season for its main stage and |
| watch and inspire. Theater shows can be in the | | | | three to four plays on its second stage. Many |
| form of drama, musical, and comedy. Drama is | | | | known 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 costumes | | | | Boulevard and has been the venue of the Annual |
| and sets; a perfect example would be the | | | | Oscars Academy Awards since it opened in 2001. |
| Broadway musicals. | | | | The theater was designed by the Rockwell Group |
| A List of Los Angeles Theaters | | | | with the Oscars as their inspiration so that it has |
| 1.The Ahmanson Theater. The theater was | | | | one of the largest seating capacities among the |
| constructed in 1962 and opened for public five | | | | many Los Angeles theaters in the whole of United |
| years after. It was generously donated by Robert | | | | States. The theater is obviously named after the |
| H. Ahmanson and is now considered one among | | | | Kodak Company, its sponsor who paid a |
| four locations comprising the Los Angeles Music | | | | whooping $75 million for its construction. |