CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Greek Theatre Operations?

$29.7M across 1,789 payments, July 27, 2017 to September 2, 2026 — 330 purchase orders and 53 vendors, run by Recreation and Parks.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: GREEK THEATRE OPERATIONS

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 330 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$29.7MTotal spent
330Purchase orders
53Vendors
71%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$3.1M
FY2018-19
$2.6M
FY2019-20
$2.6M
FY2020-21
$1.9M
FY2021-22
$3.0M
FY2022-23
$3.3M
FY2023-24
$4.3M
FY2024-25
$4.6M
FY2025-26
$3.2M
FY2026-27 *
$1.2M

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $438K.

Who was paid

The 25 largest of 53 vendors on this line.

Under which orders

The 40 largest of 330 purchase orders booked to this line.

30 payments · August 10, 2023 to December 5, 2024

28 payments · October 2, 2024 to August 18, 2025

17 payments · September 14, 2021 to August 23, 2022

22 payments · September 25, 2025 to September 2, 2026

13 payments · July 11, 2019 to August 13, 2020

13 payments · September 27, 2022 to August 7, 2023

12 payments · October 14, 2020 to August 11, 2021

16 payments · September 29, 2025 to September 2, 2026

31 payments · August 15, 2017 to March 15, 2018

8 payments · December 4, 2018 to June 5, 2019

14 payments · October 9, 2024 to August 22, 2025

13 payments · October 5, 2022 to August 16, 2023

8 payments · January 9, 2018 to May 30, 2018

13 payments · September 25, 2023 to August 28, 2024

20 payments · December 1, 2021 to October 5, 2022

4 payments · July 9, 2018 to October 3, 2018

24 payments · April 1, 2020 to December 27, 2021

13 payments · May 28, 2019 to February 18, 2021

22 payments · May 4, 2018 to August 13, 2018

13 payments · September 24, 2018 to March 11, 2019

5 payments · October 1, 2018 to December 24, 2018

3 payments · May 28, 2024 to May 28, 2024

1 payment · July 23, 2025 to July 23, 2025

3 payments · July 27, 2017 to August 9, 2017

3 payments · September 21, 2017 to January 4, 2018

6 payments · May 24, 2018 to May 24, 2018

2 payments · April 18, 2024 to April 18, 2024

1 payment · May 3, 2019 to May 3, 2019

3 payments · June 13, 2018 to August 24, 2018

4 payments · April 24, 2024 to April 24, 2024

2 payments · October 20, 2017 to October 20, 2017

18 payments · April 8, 2021 to March 16, 2022

6 payments · May 29, 2025 to May 29, 2025

2 payments · April 10, 2026 to April 10, 2026

12 payments · August 21, 2023 to June 18, 2024

12 payments · August 15, 2022 to June 21, 2023

2 payments · December 13, 2018 to December 13, 2018

12 payments · February 8, 2018 to November 20, 2018

12 payments · November 21, 2018 to October 11, 2019

12 payments · November 5, 2019 to September 29, 2020

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.