The new City Playhouse will replace the Coast Playhouse Theater located at 8325 Santa Monica Boulevard, near the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and N. Sweetzer Avenue. The new 99-seat, approximately 5,000 square foot facility will serve as an arts and cultural event center that will support nonprofit arts organizations and artists by providing an accessible venue in the city’s center. The project will include street level public programming and a landscaped civic space. In addition to providing the local community with a versatile and state-of-the-art performance venue, the City Playhouse will demonstrate the City’s sustainability goals through high-impact, cost-effective strategies.

This is the second of two community design workshops as part of the new City Playhouse design process. The first will take place on February 14, 2023 at Kings Road Park.

The purpose of the follow-up design workshop will be to gather input from performing artists in the community to identify opportunities for community-based programming, and to collaboratively discuss the general vibe, functional requirements, and spatial constraints of the various spaces within the Playhouse.