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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, it was unusual for its street: while Broadway's houses rose for vaudeville and nickelodeon crowds, the Morosco staged full-scale legitimate drama. The Depression pushed it to film - as the President, then the Newsreel, and from the mid-1940s the Globe, whose 1940s marquee still fronts the building with "Morosco" visible behind it. Decades of Spanish-language cinema followed until closure in 1986, then a levelled floor, a swap meet, and a run of nightclub identities - Club Orion in the 1990s, the deluxe Club 740 in the 2000s. A multi-million-dollar renovation between 2013 and 2015 by operator Erik Chol restored the Globe name, relit the marquee and reopened the long-shuttered Broadway entrance. In its revived form the theatre ran as a roughly 1,750-capacity multipurpose venue for concerts, club nights (Questlove among the DJs), film shoots and theatrical events, its marble staircase and plaster cherubs surviving every incarnation. The building is a contributing property to the Broadway Theater and Commercial District on the National Register, and operation passed to building owner Houman Sarshar's family in the mid-2020s. The block sits at the heart of Broadway's revival - the Orpheum, the Ace Hotel theatre and Grand Central Market are all walkable, with the Metro at Pershing Square. Event programming varies with the operator; check current listings before planning a night.