Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC)

Establishing a beachhead in downtown Los Angeles for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television was always part of the plan, says Professor of Theater Jose- Luis Valenzuela of the new partnership he supervises between the School and the storied Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC). The Center has been directed since January 2006 by Valenzuela’s Latino Theater Company (LTC), which signed a 20-year lease for use of the building at 514 S. Spring Street and received a $4 million grant for remodeling.

The Center opened under this new arrangement in September 2007 with an ambitious international festival of theater, spoken word and dance. The Center is shared by a “multicultural collective” comprising five companies: LTC, the Robey Theater Company (African-American), Culture Clash (Hispanic improvisational satire), Cedar Grove Productions On Stage (“Asian; American/Asian/South Asian/Pacific Islander/Hapa”), and the Native American Dance Troupe.

Valenzuela intends to harness the talent and experience of TFT personnel to create a new cultural entity carefully tailored to the center’s setting in the midst of the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of Chinatown, Elysian Park, Little Tokyo and Lincoln Heights.

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