The City of West Hollywood invites the community to attend upcoming City Council Playhouse Design Steering Committee discussions for the new West Hollywood City Playhouse that will replace the former Coast Playhouse, located at 8325 Santa Monica Boulevard, across the street from West Hollywood City Hall on Santa Monica Boulevard near N. Sweetzer Avenue.
Proposed as a new 99-seat, approximately 5,000-square-foot venue, the Playhouse will serve as an arts and cultural event facility that will support artists and nonprofit arts organizations by providing an accessible venue in the center of West Hollywood. The project will include public programming and an outdoor landscaped civic space.
In February, the City hosted two community design visioning workshops with members of the local community as well as local artists and performers. City staff will collate input from these previous community workshops and the design team receive guidance from the Steering Committee and community members on crafting the new Playhouse design during these sessions.
The Steering Committee will include members of the City Council, members of the Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission, Public Facilities, Recreation, and Infrastructure Commission, and Planning Commission Design Review Subcommittee, and technical advisors and experts in fields including performance facility design, theatre technology, climate and sustainability, open space goals, and construction. The City will host three in-person City Council Playhouse Design Steering Committee discussions to collect feedback and ideas and finalize the design for the new Playhouse:
The City Council Playhouse Design Steering Committee Meeting #1 will take place on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, at 5 p.m. in the Kings Road Park Community Room, located at 1000 N. Kings Road. The purpose of this in-person meeting is to review the community feedback to date, review the project’s goals and objectives, discuss site and building programming opportunities, and discuss initial design concepts.
The City Council Playhouse Design Steering Committee Meeting #2 will take place on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 5 p.m. in the Kings Road Park Community Room, located at 1000 N. Kings Road. The purpose of this in-person meeting is to review updated design concepts and technical refinements based on previous input from the community and Steering Committee.
The City Council Playhouse Design Steering Committee Meeting #3 will take place on Tuesday, June 13th (previously scheduled for May 23, 2023), at 5 p.m. in the Kings Road Park Community Room, located at 1000 N. Kings Road. The purpose of this in-person meeting is to further review updated design concepts and technical refinements based on previous input from the community and Steering Committee and to determine recommendations to the City Council regarding the programming and design of the playhouse. The Agenda can be found here.
For any questions or additional information, please contact Michael Barker, the City of West Hollywood Project Architect in the City’s Urban Design and Architecture Studio, at mbarker@weho.org.
