Globe Theatre (Los Angeles)

The Globe Theatre, originally the Morosco Theatre, and Garland Building, is an office building and theater at 744 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District of the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles.

The Globe opened in 1913 as the Morosco Theatre with a seating capacity of 782, used for full-scale live dramatic theater, and built for impresario Oliver Morosco.

The Garland Building was office space, forming a single building with the theater[2] The Globe was converted into a movie theater during the Great Depression, and later on showed Spanish-language films until the 1980s[2] It was converted into a swap meet in 1987.

[4] and served during the late 2010s and early 2020s as a multipurpose space for music, theatrical events and films, also as a nightclub where D.J.s like Questlove performed,[5] with a capacity of 2,000.

[citation needed] The Globe was again permanently closed as of 2023.