Pantages Theatre
6233 Hollywood Boulevard , Los Angeles, California 90028
The home of Broadway in the Hollywood Area
In the heart of Hollywood, on Hollywood Boulevard, right down the block from Vine Street, stands the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. It's a fitting location: The Pantages has become one of the greatest landmarks of Hollywood, signifying both the glorious past and adventuresome future of the world's entertainment capital.
The Hollywood Pantages has a history as grand and diverse as the stage and screen fare which audiences have flocked to enjoy there for half a century. These days it's one of Los Angeles' leading homes of legitimate theatre (the five highest-grossing weeks in L.A.'s theatrical history were all shows at the Pantages) and a favorite "location" for tv shows, movies and music videos. In the past, it has been a movie house, with live vaudeville acts between features as well as the site of many gala premieres and "spectaculars." For ten years the Hollywood Pantages Theatre was the home of the glittering Academy Awards Presentations.
While the use of the Hollywood Pantages Theatre may have changed over the years, the theatre does not appear all that different today. After several touch-ups over the years, the Hollywood Boulevard showplace was renovated at the turn of the 21st century to recapture its 1930 look and luxury. When the theatre reopened in September 2000, some 300 people had repainted nearly every inch of the theatre, restored its outer lobby and missing chandeliers, refurbished its walls and prepared it for the new century.
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Directions
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6233 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
90028From Downtown:
Take the Hollywood (101) Freeway Northbound, and exit at Hollywood Boulevard. Turn left on Hollywood and proceed west four blocks. The Pantages is on your right, on the north side of the boulevard just past Argyle.From San Fernando Valley:
Take the Hollywood (101) Freeway Southbound, and exit at Vine Street. Turn right on Vine and proceed south two blocks to Hollywood Boulevard. Turn left on Hollywood Boulevard. The theatre is ½ block down on your left, on the north side of the street.From the Westside:
Take either Sunset Boulevard or Santa Monica Boulevard east to Vine Street. Proceed two blocks north on Vine Street. Proceed on Vine to Hollywood Boulevard and turn right. The Pantages is in that block on the north side of the street.
