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Since its inception in 1967, the Ahmanson Theatre has presented a wide variety of dramas, musicals, comedies and classic revivals, including 13 plays by Neil Simon (six world premieres) and the works of such leading American playwrights as Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson, A.R. Gurney, John Guare and Edward Albee. The Ahmanson has been represented on Broadway as a co-producer of the award-winning productions of Amadeus, Mathew Bourne’s Swan Lake, Smokey Joe's Cafe, August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running and Seven Guitars, and Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella. Under the leadership of former artistic director Robert Fryer, the theatre has played host to a veritable who's who in the entertainment world, including Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Jack Lemmon, Ingrid Bergman, Glenda Jackson, Charlton Heston, Vanessa Redgrave, Angela Lansbury, Peter Ustinov, Carol Channing and Mary Martin. With the arrival of the long-running Tony Award-winning musical The Phantom of the Opera in its West Coast debut in May of 1989, the Ahmanson began to utilize the UCLA James A. Doolittle Theatre in Hollywood (formally the Huntington Hartford) as an alternate space. This allowed the Ahmanson to continue its annual subscription seasons, currently the largest theatrical subscription base in the country. Highlights of the first seasons at the Doolittle include three Pulitzer Prize winners: August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles.

With the closing of The Phantom of the Opera in August 1993 after a record-breaking four-year run, the Ahmanson embarked on a $17 million renovation project. The redesign enhanced theatre acoustics, improved sight lines and brings artists and audiences closer together by moving the mezzanine and balcony nearer to the stage, lowering the ceiling, reducing the width of the auditorium, and developing new side boxes. In addition, the unique, state-of-the-art reconfiguration provides for variable seating capacity from 1,600 - 2,000 seats, allowing the theatre to adjust the size of the house to accommodate a greater variety of plays, from the intimate to the spectacular. The project also included the remodeling of the theatre lobbies, as well as the forecourt between the Ahmanson and the Mark Taper Forum. The new Ahmanson re-opened in January 1995 with a limited nine-month engagement of the musical sensation Miss Saigon. The premiere season in the new Ahmanson began with Candide, which was directed by Gordon Davidson. Since 1989, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre at the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County has been under the guidance of Artistic Director/Producer Gordon Davidson, who has also served as the Artistic Director for the CTG/Mark Taper Forum for the past 34 years. Center Theatre Group believes that theatre is a cultural force and has the capacity to transform the lives of individuals and society at large. CTG is dedicated to theatrical work that positively affects perceptions of the world, expands the sense of the possible, and illuminates the human experience.

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