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Los Angeles is known worldwide for its movie stars and television actors. But as a “theater” is mentioned we immediately think of Broadway, not the city of angels.

However, Los Angeles, a lively theater scene is full of talent and won places in the state of the art. After all, the players and administrators to do something between the two film projects.

The Pantages Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard and is one of the most lovable of the city. The theater was opened in 1930 and was once owned by Howard Hughes.

The theater seats over 2600 and is a good place to see some of the best Broadway musicals.

“Rent,” “Grease,” “Mamma Mia!”, “Dirty Dancing”, “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Legally Blonde” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, are schedule to play Pantages in 2009.

“Rain: The Beatles Experience” is a Beatles cover band, you have believed in 1965 once again the “Fab Four” of forgery for a longer commitment was registered in April


The Ahmanson Theatre is located at 135 North Grand Avenue and is one of the most attractive locations in Los Angeles theater, musicals, classics and revivals.

The first six Ahmanson Neil Simon Theatre, performances by legends like Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and James Earl Jones.

Remodel in 1995, the state of the avant-garde theater has a capacity of 1,600 to 2,000, depending on the size and scale of production. This historic site is versatile and the largest base of subscription rights of theater on the west coast.

In 2009, you can expect, “Minksy” a musical in the era of Prohibition, “Frost / Nixon” with Stacy Keach see, and the Tony Award musical “Is not Misbehavin.”

Later this year, will be visited by Ahamanson Dame Edna, Ballet Hispanico and Patti Lupone & Mandy Patinkin.

The hilarious musical “Monty Python’s Spamalot” is Ahamanson curtain and 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “August:. Osage County”

In 2010, compare the performance of “Mary Poppins” and “Dream Girls”.

The theater is located Ahamanson in the Los Angeles Music Center, one of the three largest performing arts centers in the United States.

Next to the theater Ahamanson the Music Centre has three other locations. The Mark Taper Forum, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion used to host the Oscars, but the last time the hall was an Academy Award in 1999.

The pavilion seats 3197 and is the home of the Los Angeles Opera.

Upcoming performances in the pavilion are the first two operas of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. ” Also scheduled is Verdi’s classic “La Traviata”.

Also appear at the Pavilion in 2009, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the birds, and the American Ballet Theatre.

The Mark Taper Forum, yet another place in LA Music Center, also has its share of world-class theater productions. The award-winning “Pippin” is a way to its stage, and “Lydia”, “Uncle Vanya,” “The Lieutenant of Inishmore,” “Parade” and “Palestine, New Mexico.”

The Mark Taper Forum opened in 1967 and underwent a renovation of dollars a few years ago. The cone is more innovative and risk-taking for the organization known plays. He hosted the world premiere of “Angels in America”.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Donald Margulies”Time new plant Stands Still, “we see the Geffen Theater. The quiet drama about journalists covering the war in Iraq and Alicia Silverstone star Anna Gunn.

The Geffen Playhouse in Westwood located, was built in 1929. In the year 2001 has been updated with a conversion dollars. The theater is very conveniently located, only 525 customers.

Ralph Freud Playhouse is another destination for theater lovers. You can find the theater on the campus of UCLA in the James West Alumni Center.

This year, the chamber piece, and its 586 seats schedule, to performances of “Man of La Mancha”, “David Rousseve Reality” and “Fantastic” host.

It is clear that Los Angeles Theater dynamic and diverse. rewarded with his latest state of the art facilities and talent, the City of Angels that more films and television programs produced, it also produces great drama.