Contains photographs depicting performances at Cue Gardens; Junior and Senior productions; special and holiday productions; Summer Sessions; Third Annual Drama Clinic; and other various student productions, some unidentified.
Includes Annual Drama Clinics; Cue Gardens; dance projects; Playhouse Day; special and holiday events; Showcases; College of Theatre Arts, Advanced extension project, 1954-1955; various student productions; Pasadena Playhouse College Repertory Company, and R.E.P. (Repertory Exists in Pasadena).
Contains data including production number, title, playwright, director, production dates, number of performances, attendance, and gross for productions by venue and format. Included are Mainstage, 1917-1956; East and West Balcony, including Senior productions, 1948-1956; Patio, Laboratory, and Workshop, 1936-1949 (date ranges vary per venue); Playbox, 1924-1953; State Theatre Players, 1947-1952; One-Act Play Tournaments, 1934-1947; radio productions, 1946-1952; and television plays produced, including by Don Lee, 1946-1951. Also includes data regarding assemblies, 1947-1952, and Coleman Concerts, 1926-1948.
Contains materials for one-off and special events productions, affiliated and collaborating companies, and visiting companies. Included are anniversary programs, holiday events, Federal Theatre Project/WPA at the Playhouse, Dublin Players, Eighteen Acres, and other individual programs. Also includes programs from visiting dance and musical programs, lectures, and related.
Contains loose photographs depicting performances, actors, and actresses; images are chiefly from the 1937 Midsummer Drama Festival. Photographs include 10 images from Libel; nine photographs from Miner's Gold; two from Rose of the Rancho; and one of a woman reading. Also includes one photograph of a scene from Major Barbara, 1938. Photographers credited include Jerry Eaton and Peter Piper (James F. Pieper).
Items 596-666 chiefly depict performances prior to the establishment of the Mainstage in 1925, and also include various other views, including images of the exterior and interior at North Fair Oaks; a performance to benefit the Kiwanis Club at the Pasadena High School Auditorium, November 1922 (Item 614); Pasadena Playhouse Children's Department productions at the Shakespeare Club and Raymond Theatre (Items 621-622); a group photograph depicting the Summer Art Colony, 1922 (Item 623); and other images. Items 667-840 chiefly depict performances on the Mainstage, beginning May 18, 1925.
