Mark Taper Forum
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| Address | 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles, California  United States
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| Coordinates | 34°3′27″N 118°14′52″W / 34.05750°N 118.24778°WCoordinates: 34°3′27″N 118°14′52″W / 34.05750°N 118.24778°W |
| Public transit |
  Civic Center/Grand Park
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| Parking | Yes |
| Owner | Los Angeles Music Center |
| Operator | The Music Center |
| Capacity | 739 |
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| Opened | 1967 |
| Rebuilt | 2008, Rios Clementi Hale Studios |
| Architect | Welton Becket |
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The Mark Taper Forum is a 739-seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center designed by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of Downtown Los Angeles. Named for real estate developer Mark Taper, the Forum, the neighboring Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre are all operated by the Center Theatre Group.
The Mark Taper Forum opened in 1967 as part of the Los Angeles Music Center, the West Coast equivalent of Lincoln Center, designed by Los Angeles architect Welton Becket. The smallest of the three venues, the Taper is flanked by the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Ahmanson Theatre on the Music Center Plaza.
Becket designed the center in the style of New Formalism, which emphasized geometric shapes. The perfectly circular Taper is considered one of his best works, featuring a distinctive decorated drum of a design with its exterior wrapped in a lacy precast relief by Jacques Overhoff. The lobby has a curving, abalone wall by Tony Duquette. Charles Moore described Becket's design for the Music Center as "Late Imperial Depression-Style cake".
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