Accessibility

Accommodations for persons in wheelchairs or persons with disabilities and their attendants or companions may be made by calling Audience Services at 213/628-2772. Patrons at the Taper theater should contact us if your wheelchair status changes so that your seating will be correct when you arrive at the theatre for each production. Please try to arrive early if you need help with access. In the Mark Taper Forum seating is accessible by means of a platform lift. Aisle seats may also be requested.

Services

There are accessible restrooms in the main lobby of the Mark Taper Forum.  Accessible parking spaces are located in the garages at the Music Center. For modified vans more than 6'6" high, space is designed at the circular drive on the Hope street side of the Plaza. Valet parking is available in two locations at the Music Center. The Hope Street circular drive adjacent to the Plaza and Hope Street and Walt Disney Concert Hall. Accessible parking is $8 for vehicles displaying a valid, state-issued disability placard or license plate. Wheel chairs are not provided.

Elevators from the Music Center Garage are located underneath the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on the Grand Avenue side. Two escalators are located at the center of the garage on the Grand Avenue side leading up to the fountain area. A third escalator is located near the Ahmanson Theatre on the Hope Street side of the plaza. The escalators are programmed to move up prior to curtain and down starting at intermission.

Patrons of the Mark Taper Forum can call the Music Center Guest Services department at 213-972-0777, in advance, to reserve wheelchair pick-up. Usher pick-up is at the valet parking on Hope Street.

The following visually impaired and hearing impaired services are also available: Audio-Described Performances, Binoculars, Telephones, Assistive Listening Devices, American Sign Language Interpreted performances and open captioned performances.