{"id":49457,"date":"2018-11-02T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=49457"},"modified":"2018-11-02T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:50:52","slug":"old-crest-theater-to-be-renamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/11\/old-crest-theater-to-be-renamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Crest Theater To Be Renamed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old <em>Crest Theater<\/em> in Westwood was sold to <em>UCLA<\/em>, and it will become an off-campus performing arts space named after actor <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nimoy&#8217;s widow Susan and an anonymous donor provided part of the funding for the space, which will open in 2021 as the <em>UCLA Nimoy Theater<\/em>. Other funding will come courtesy of a new fundraising campaign by <em>Center for the Art of Performance (CAP) UCLA. Cap UCLA<\/em> will operate and manage the <em>UCLA Nimoy Theater<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a longstanding supporter of the <em>Center for the Art of Performance<\/em>, and its inspired artistic director, <strong>Kristy Edmunds<\/strong>, I am thrilled to help provide UCLA with a long-awaited state-of-the-art theater,&#8221; said <strong>Susan Nimoy<\/strong>. &#8220;My late husband, Leonard Nimoy, and I admire Kristy&#8217;s passion for the art of performance, her out-of-the-box imagination, razor-sharp intellect and her vision for what the<em> UCLA Nimoy Theater<\/em> will bring to Los Angeles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The theater started life in December 1940 as the<em> Westwood Theater<\/em>, a live performance hall. Its latest renovation, in 1987 by the <em>Walt Disney Company<\/em>, featured its current &#8220;Art Deco Revival&#8221; signage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old Crest Theater in Westwood was sold to UCLA, and it will become an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2700,2413],"tags":[9686,2763,9687],"class_list":["post-49457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cast-crew","tag-crest-theater","tag-leonard-nimoy","tag-ucla"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CrestTheaterRename110218-UCLA.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49459,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49457\/revisions\/49459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}