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.
Contains various oversize materials, including performance photographs, portraits of actors and actresses, programs, and posters. Includes banner for Cherry Blossom Players at the Hotel Huntington, presented by the management of the Huntington, the Green, and the Maryland hotels and Clarence McGehee, [1916?]; a program for a benefit concert for survivors of an earthquake in Italy and Sicily, 1909, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City; and a cloth poster for The Rivals, 1889, at the Park Theatre, donated to the Pasadena Playhouse Museum and Library and including a note from Gilmor Brown to the Library director regarding the donation. Also includes a hand-lettered poster for the Pasadena Amateur Dramatic Company featuring a photographic portrait showing company members (circa 1886) and a facsimile of the first theatre program of a Southern California vaudeville show in Los Angeles, in Spanish.
Contains articles from the publicity office, headed by Joan Caldwell; School of the Theater and College of Theatre Arts brochures, fliers, and other materials; brochures and fliers for other courses of study (high school teachers, evening extension classes); and Pasadena Theatre Academy brochures. Also includes two issues of Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts News (newsletter) and one issue of Playhouse News, Pasadena Playhouse School of the Theatre.
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 awards and honors, 1951-1959; floor plans, undated and by unidentified architect; a broadside of Shakespeare and Shakespeare-related images, inscribed to Gilmor Brown by Mrs. H.D. Bentley, 1936, in appreciation of the Midsummer Drama Festival; one painting of Gilmor Brown in a kilt, undated, and one cartoon by Ernest Hix and Doug Hayes, 1948, celebrating Gilmor Brown. Also includes a 17th-century theater prop given to Gilmor Brown by Gareth Hughes: Indenture, used as Shylock's bond, 1687, accompanied by a label stating that this was stage property used in many productions of "The Merchant of Venice." Additionally, contains two copies of a banner advertising Pasadena Playhouse and its College of Theatre Arts, 1959; and portraits, including a photograph of Gilmor Brown's father, a photograph of Percy MacKaye inscribed to Brown, a photo depicting Bob Hope and Bing Crosby with a Pasadena Playhouse student, and photos of Elton Howard's portraits of Brown, Shanewise, Freud, and Wells, approximately 1925.
Contains scores for: Lovely Miss Linley (Lee Gilmore piano score used in 1942 production); Lazarus Laughed (Arthur Alexander original music, 1928, in five parts, some copies and some handwritten); Follies of Pasadena (original scores, blueprint copies, undated); and original music composed in 1939 and undated by Vincent Bowditch for unidentified Pasadena Playhouse productions.
