Fully equipped with flexible lighting and sound and stage features, James R. Armstrong Theatre is a cultural arts center. The theater hosts a variety of professional and community productions, as well as large-scale meetings, social gatherings, business events, film screenings and seminars. It has a lobby area with various amenities, including a curved marble counter for food service with adjacent refrigeration units, restrooms and public telephones. It also has a projection screen and multipurpose audiovisual equipment with cable television linkages to other areas of the center. In addition, it has adjustable acoustical curtains that enhance the quality of spoken and musical sound. With a seating capacity of more than 500 people, James R. Armstrong Theatre maintains a location in Torrance, Calif.
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Live theatre, acting classes, costume rentals, set rentals, prop rentals, and more! * Acting Classes Phantom Projects offers a variety of acting classes for children ages 8 and up, teens, and adults. Our classes are for all skill levels, and include workshops, private coaching sessions, acting intensives, and more. We provide a supportive environment for students to explore and create, with the goal of understanding how to approach a scene in all its subtexts. All acting classes are held at our facility in La Mirada. * Costume Rentals Our warehouse facility houses 5,000 square feet of high-quality costumes, which we rent out at affordable prices to other organizations and individuals. Our collection includes individual wardrobe items, as well as full sets for various productions such as Anything Goes, The Crucible, The Diary of Anne Frank, and more. * Phantom Projects also presents an entire season of theatre, with shows aimed at students ranging from elementary through high school and beyond. Affordable day-time field trip and evening performances at theatres across Southern California ensure that audiences will be a part of something special. Our season of theatre features shows adapted from classic books, as well as the annual Young Artist Project, which is an entire evening of original works from Southern California's brightest new young talents.
