A garment factory in the warehouse district now runs some of LA's heaviest bills. 1720, at 1720 East 16th Street just west of Santa Fe Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, opened in late 2017 when a trio of local rock musicians converted the old factory into a multi-purpose, all-ages venue. Designer Brant Ritter kept the raw industrial shell - high ceilings, exposed pipes, steel beams, painted concrete, a Nick Knudson triptych mural on the wall - and dropped best-in-class sound and lighting into it. .....

Los Angeles keeps its Broadway on Grand Avenue. The Ahmanson Theatre at 135 North Grand Avenue is one of the four venues of the Music Center, the downtown performing-arts acropolis, and the city's principal house for large-scale theatre: pre-Broadway tryouts, the best of Broadway and West End tours, and Center Theatre Group's flagship productions have filled its stage since the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera opened it on 12 April 1967 with Man of La Mancha. Underwritten by financier Howard F. Ah.....

An oil baron's playhouse became downtown LA's velvet-draped concert hall. The Belasco - the name is often misrendered, including as Balesco - stands at 1050 South Hill Street, commissioned in 1926 by petroleum magnate Edward Doheny alongside the neighbouring Mayan Theatre as a bid to pull Los Angeles's theatre district south. Morgan, Walls and Clements designed it in exuberant Churrigueresque Spanish style, and it opened on 1 November 1926 with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, named for Broadway impres.....

Boyle Heights has thrown its quinceaneras, weddings and cumbia nights under this roof since 1985, and a 2019 remodel turned the neighbourhood salon into the Eastside's flagship nightclub. Don Quixote at 2811 East Olympic Boulevard runs a double identity: Salon Don Quixote, the banquet-and-events operation that has served East Los Angeles for four decades, and Don Quixote the nightclub and concert venue, whose calendar of Latin dance nights, live bands and DJ events makes it what its owners bill .....

One determined newspaper publisher's wife raised over eighteen million dollars - Time magazine called it the most impressive display of virtuoso money-raising in the history of American womanhood - and Los Angeles finally got its great concert hall. The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at 135 North Grand Avenue, the founding building of the Music Center on Bunker Hill, was dedicated on 27 September 1964 and opened with a gala Los Angeles Philharmonic concert under Zubin Mehta that December. Designed by.....

It opened with rows of seats specially widened for patrons over 200 pounds, and its impresario filled the orchestra pit with foliage because he found intermission music intrusive. The Globe Theatre, at 740 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District, opened on 6 January 1913 as the Morosco Theatre - a Beaux-Arts playhouse built for producer Oliver Morosco inside the eleven-storey Garland Building. Designed by Morgan, Walls and Morgan with interiors by Alfred F. Rosenheim,.....

Dedicated to the history and craft of recorded music, the GRAMMY Museum opened in December 2008 at L.A. Live, the entertainment complex beside the arena in downtown Los Angeles. Created in partnership with the Recording Academy, the body behind the Grammy Awards, it spreads interactive galleries across several floors and celebrates music across every genre rather than any single style. The museum leans heavily on hands-on exhibits. Visitors can try their hand at singing, mixing and playing in i.....

Los Angeles throws its biggest free party here every 31 December - tens of thousands counting down beneath City Hall at NYELA, the West Coast's flagship New Year's celebration. Gloria Molina Grand Park, running 12 acres from Grand Avenue at the Music Center down to Spring Street at City Hall, opened in July 2012 after a 56-million-dollar transformation of the old 1960s Civic Center Mall. Designed by Rios Clementi Hale Studios, the park descends Bunker Hill in four distinct rooms: the restored A.....

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.....

The team behind New York's Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge went hunting for a room where the newest of new bands could grow - and found a rumoured former brothel with one of Los Angeles's oldest liquor licences. The Moroccan Lounge, at 901 East 1st Street between Little Tokyo and the Arts District, opened in September 2017. The pedigree explains the polish: Michael Swier and Joe Baxley - founders of the mid-sized Teragram Ballroom across downtown - built the 250-capacity room as its delibera.....