El Rey Theatre, Art deco music venue in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, United States.
El Rey Theatre is a music venue in the Miracle Mile neighborhood featuring art deco design with a main auditorium holding around 771 seats plus a VIP balcony section. The building combines zigzag and streamline moderne elements throughout its interior.
The building opened in 1936 as a single-screen cinema and operated as a movie theater for around 50 years. During the 1980s it transformed into a dance club called Wall Street before becoming the music venue it is today.
The name El Rey ("the King") is shared with the Spanish-language films the theatre once screened for the Mid-Wilshire area. Since 1994 it has run as a live music venue, and the marquee still carries the show titles and "SOLD OUT" notices of the night's bill. The 771-capacity room and rear VIP balcony are booked by promoter Goldenvoice.
The auditorium holds 771 people, with a VIP balcony at the rear of the room. The building sits in the Miracle Mile area of the Mid-Wilshire district, and the entrance lobby keeps its original art deco finishes. The theatre is now booked exclusively by Goldenvoice, so check who is promoting a given show before assuming the venue runs it.
The theatre's exterior appears in the 1984 film Night of the Comet as the workplace of the main character Regina, and it anchors the linking segments of the 1986 horror compilation Zombiethon. In 1995 it was the main setting of the Cowboy Junkies' video for "Angel Mine", with Janeane Garofalo.
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