BroadStage

The Eli and Edythe BroadStage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center opened its doors in October 2008. BroadStage is an artist’s dream and an audience’s delight.

Unlike any performance space in the country, it is sublimely intimate with just over 500 seats and strikingly grand at the same time–allowing eye contact with artists from the boxes to the back row–forging a new kind of artist and audience experience in Los Angeles. Boasting one of the city’s largest proscenium stages, The Broad Stage offers theatre, dance, film, opera, jazz, world music, musicals, symphony and chamber orchestras, family programming and more. Each genre features superlative talent from every generation and around the globe. No other performing arts center west of the 405 can boast such consistently stellar lineups of performers, including André Watts, Anna Netrebko, Sir James Galway, Sutton Foster, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti LuPone, Aaron Neville, Lee Ritenou, Dave Grusin, Joshua Redman, Lil Buck, Bobby McFerrin, Helen Hunt, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and many others.

In addition to BroadStage, The Edye, our 100-seat black box theater, presents new, developing and innovative work in theatre, music and dance, as well as offerings from our other genres. Featuring younger, emerging artists, chamber pieces and plays, programming at The Edye reflects the dynamic nature of the space and allows for the latest, most exciting artists to be booked on short notice.

BroadStage’s Education & Community Programs offer opportunities for cultural exposure through various art events, currently reaching more than 15,000 children, parents, educators and community members every year.

Amenities

Features

  • Family-Friendly
Amenities

Features

  • Family-Friendly
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  • Went to see Speak last night and was totally comfortable through the whole show. The show was magnificent too! So, kudos to the Broad Stage for letting the... Full Review

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Broad Stage front sign
Broad Stage oustide
Broad Stage (from the stage)
Broad Stage (from the balcony)
Broad Stage green room