Center Theatre Group, Kirk Douglas Theatre
Culver City, California, USA
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The addition of side boxes, catwalks, state-of-the-art lighting and AV equipment, a short end stage, rigging systems, and support spaces transformed the movie palace—which was built in 1947—into an intimate 317-seat venue—the smallest of the group’s three venues. The theatre is designed to serve as a performance laboratory where young artists can experiment with new and unconventional works. Within its first 10 years, the theatre had already produced three original plays that made the leap to Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize finalist), and Come Back, Little Sheba.
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owner:
Bottega Management Group
architect:
Steven Ehrlich Architects
acoustician:
Robert F. Mahoney & Associates
users:
Center Theatre Group
spaces:
- 317-seat multipurpose theatre
construction type:
Adaptive reuse
theatre type:
Auditorium design/seating, Concept design, Multipurpose theatres, Program development
services:
Programming, concept design, theatre planning, theatre equipment design and specification
completion:
2004
Elon Schoenholz Photography