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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Nimoy

From the Bruin: The newly renovated Nimoy Theater in Westwood won the Best Hospitality Project Award at the Los Angeles Business Council’s 54th Annual Architectural Awards this October. The recent renovations recognized the theater’s transformation from a historic cinema into a modern state-of-the-art performance space. Due to a large donation from Susan Bay Nimoy, actress and widow of Leonard Nimoy, the theater – renamed in his honor in 2023 – underwent extensive renovations following UCLA’s 2018 acquisition of the property.

According to the UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance website, since reopening in September of 2023, the renovated theater’s programming features, “Contemporary performing artists from Los Angeles and around the world,” with mediums including theater, installation-performance, general music and literary events...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2025/02/07/nimoy-theater-wins-architectural-award-for-renovations-highlighting-historic-roots.

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