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 typed notes, in many cases on index cards, on the importance of theater, the place of art in the commercial world, and the history of the Playbox Theatre and the Pasadena Playhouse. Also includes some programs and playbills featuring Brown; various scrapbook pages; and articles, clippings, and a booklet about Brown. Also contains list of A. E. Arnold negatives of Pasadena Community Playhouse; and notes for speeches.
Subseries A (Community Playhouse and Mainstage productions), Subseries B (Playbox productions) and Subseries C (Mainstage, Playbox, and Gilmor Brown) are from a collection previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327, compiled from the scrapbook series set described in Series II.
Contains enlargements of performance photographs from the set previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327; depictions of Gilmor Brown in character for unidentified play; and a scene from Trelawny of the Halwels, 1920. Also includes programs from Pasadena Community Playhouse and Playbox productions; a hand-drawn poster for When Knighthood was in Flower, 1932, by Corliss McGee; posters for the Gin Game, Charley's Aunt, and El Grande de Coca Cola; and four blueprints of the set design for a Mainstage production of Picnic, 1955.
Contains oversize programs for Pasadena Community Playhouse, 1927-1937. Also includes programs for the Playbox, 1931-1962, and the Mainstage, approximately 1937-1941 and 1960-1961.
