Yours truly is catching up with some weekend email, including the item below on the conversion by UCLA of the former Crest Theater on Westwood Blvd. south of Wilshire:
The UCLA Nimoy Theater is taking shape
CAP* UCLA’s new home for live performance is coming to Westwood in the fall of 2023!
The UCLA Nimoy Theater—a reimagining of the historic Crest Theatre as an intimately-scaled, state-of-the-art performance space for dance, music, theater, spoken word, and interdisciplinary collaborations—will return the venue to its historic roots as a center for live performance. Construction of The Nimoy, due to complete this summer, is making significant strides as the theater begins to take shape and come to life. Just last week, the fixed seating platform was installed on the raked floor, a design feature that will ensure excellent sight lines from every seat in the house.
Complementing this fixed seating, The Nimoy will also feature convertible seating that expands and contracts in response to the needs of a specific performance. Whether set up cabaret style, standing room, or with a maximum of seats, this flexible seating strategy will add to the vitality of what artists can create and provide audiences with a dynamic experience...
Full announcement at https://cap.ucla.edu/blog/ucla-nimoy-theater-taking-shape.
Yours truly is glad to see from the image above that the wall decoration of the old Crest Theater seem to be either preserved or reproduced in the new plan. The old version:
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