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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

The farthest seat is sixteen yards from the stage - a fact that shaped fifty years of American drama. The Mark Taper Forum, the drum-shaped theatre rising from a reflecting pool at 135 North Grand Avenue on the LA Music Center plaza, was dedicated on 9 April 1967 and became the West Coast's defining home for new plays. The building is Welton Becket's jewel: a 140-foot circular pavilion clad in dark split-face granite, its cantilevered upper band decorated with a frieze of 50,800 abalone shell t...