The city of West Hollywood is inviting the community to attend upcoming City Council City Playhouse Design Steering Committee discussions for the new West Hollywood City Playhouse that will replace the former Coast Playhouse, located at 8325 Santa Monica Blvd., 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 will 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 West Hollywood City Council; members of the Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission; Public Facilities, Recreation and Infrastructure Commission; and Planning Commission Design Review Subcommittee; as well as 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 first meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 14, at 5 p.m. in the Kings Road Park Community Room, located at 1000 N. Kings Road. The second meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 18, at 5 p.m., and the third meeting will be on Tuesday, May 23, at 5 p.m. also in the Kings Road Park Community Room.

For project information, visit weho.org/city-government/city-manager/capital-projects/city-playhouse-design.

For information about City Playhouse design and construction, contact Michael Barker, city of West Hollywood project architect, at (323)848-6483 or at mbarker@weho.org. For information about City Playhouse arts programming and playhouse operations, contact Rebecca Ehemann, city of West Hollywood arts manager, at (323)848-6846 or at rehemann@weho.org.