Luckman Fine Arts Complex

Adjacent to Alhambra and Monterey Park, just 5 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at California State University, Los Angeles stands at the gateway to the San Gabriel Valley. Patrons experience music, dance, theatre, visual arts, and film in a lovely, relaxing setting, easily accessible from the 10 and 710 freeways, or from the Pasadena area via surface streets. The Luckman Theatre, home of the critically acclaimed Luckman Jazz Orchestra, seats 1,152, and features one of the largest stages in Los Angeles. Contemporary art exhibitions in the Luckman Gallery have garnered national and international press attention. A small amphitheatre provides a stage area for concerts, catered receptions, and dancing on the Street of the Arts. The final component, the Intimate Theatre, a modular 300-seat theatre, had its inaugural performance on November 18, 2004. Constructed in 1994 on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, the Luckman is in its seventeenth season of programming. The Luckman Partnership, Inc., the prestigious Los Angeles architectural firm responsible for such landmark structures as the Los Angeles Forum, Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles International Airport, designed the Complex to reflect the beauty and strength of "old" California. Characterized by sun-drenched brick buildings and a tiered street of dramatic arches and columns, the Luckman has been described as a perfect blend of the old and the new, reminiscent of a Roman forum, while maintaining the glorious spaciousness which defines Southern California.