Theater
The Greek Theatre
2700 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Open-air amphitheater styled after ancient Greece, tucked into a wooded hillside for summer concerts.
This guide to the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles opens in 1913, when a wealthy landowner named Griffith J. Griffith offered the city free money to build an open-air theater on this hillside, and the city refused. It traces back a decade earlier to a violent night in a Santa Monica hotel room that explains why Los Angeles wanted nothing to do with him, and follows what became of his offer after his death in 1919. Stand beneath the curved stone colonnade, styled after ancient Greece, that the money eventually built.
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