Official Pantages Theatre Website - Broadway/L.A.

Broadway/L.A. seeks out the best in live stage entertainment for its subscribers, whether for shows at its own venue - the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood - or at another of Los Angeles' other premiere performing arts venues. As always, Broadway/L.A. provides its subscribers with the best possible priority seating for all engagements, usually at substantial discounts as compared with the purchase of single tickets. Prior to taking on its current name, Broadway/L.A. was known as the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, the oldest theatre subscription organization in the city, and one of the most successful subscription series in U.S. history. For more information about Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, CLICK HERE.

In 1981, the Nederlander Organization bailed out the financially-ailing Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. While many of these productions continued to light up the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Ahmanson Theatre at the Los Angeles County Music Center, as available windows for booking shows at those venues became smaller and smaller, the Nederlanders eventually opted to utilize the Pantages to house the LACLO season of shows. Again and again, the Nederlander Organization proved that its flagship venue -- the Pantages Theatre -- could successfully draw big audiences to Hollywood; in fact, the 1984-85 engagement of "La Cage Aux Folles" became the longest running legit show in the Pantages Theatre’s history, and broke a number of Los Angeles box office records.

Since changing its name to Broadway/L.A.in 1996, the organization has presented over 100 large-scale musicals, dramas or comedies at a variety of theatrical venues throughout Southern California. To view a full list of Broadway/L.A. presentations, please CLICK HERE.

In 2000, the Nederlander Organization poured more than $10 million into an extensive renovation of its landmark Pantages Theatre. When the theatre re-opened to the public in September of 2000, it was to herald the Los Angeles premiere of Disney’s The Lion King, the blockbuster hit musical which would go on to run over 2 years at the Pantages Theatre, breaking all previous attendance records. Ensuing years have seen over 50 engagements of Broadway musicals, most of which were limited engagements of national tours. Two long-running engagements helped solidify the Pantages growing reputation as the go-to venue for blockbuster Broadway entertainment. For most of 2003, Jason Alexander and Martin Short headlined the musical smash, The Producers – The New Mel Brooks Musical. In February 2007, Wicked returned to the Pantages, having played a limited 6 week engagement in 2005 which was a sold-out smash. The return of Wicked showed that Southern Californians just couldn’t get enough of this show, and it remained for another two years, breaking every box office record to date. The Pantages Theatre recently celebrated its 80th Anniversary, marking 8 decades of beauty, class and top-notch service…with Broadway/L.A. continuing its mission of bringing the best of Broadway quality entertainment to the Southland.