Broadway Theater District (Los Angeles)
The Broadway Theater District in Downtown Los Angeles is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway, it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.
Read more about Broadway Theater District (Los Angeles): Highest Concentration of Movie Palaces in The World, Revitalization By Spanish-language Cinema, Preservation and Renovation Efforts, Surviving Theaters On Broadway
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—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)
“The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.”
—Robert Brustein (b. 1927)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)