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DOWNTOWN PALACE THEATRE
The theater is available for live performance and entertainment, filming, weddings, business meetings, religious services, graduations, fashion shows and special events. It houses a new sound system installed in 2001, but has not been comprehensively renovated. Users will want the support of a rental technical package and creativity in adapting events to the space.
Performance Features:
History: Built in 1911 as the third home of the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in Los Angeles (and originally known as the Orpheum), the Palace is now the oldest remaining original Orpheum theater in the country. The greatest singers, dancers, comedians, acrobats, and animal acts in vaudeville performed here for fifteen years, until the Orpheum moved to its fourth and final location at 842 S. Broadway. Website: www.losangelestheatre.com/downtownpalace Direct Contact: Theatre Manager 213-629-2939 |
The intimate scale of the Palace Theatre in concert with its elegant French details compares to a 17th-century European opera house. With garland-draped columns, a color scheme of pale pastels, wall murals depicting pastoral scenes, and ceiling murals of whimsical girls, this 1911 theatre offers an unusually charming and graceful setting. As an early vaudeville house, built without amplified sound, it is designed so that no seat is further than 80 feet from the stage. While the interior is French, the exterior is loosely styled after a Florentine Renaissance palazzo, with multicolored terra cotta swags, flowers, fairies and theatrical masks illustrating the spirit of entertainment.
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