Manuscripts

Events and projects

Description: 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).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Approximately 1954-1955
Call number: mssPlayhouse
Creator: Pasadena Playhouse(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates,; Additional gifts have been supplemented by former affiliates of the Playhouse over the years.

Senior, holiday, other productions

Manuscripts

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.

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Production data and calendars of events

Manuscripts

Includes Pasadena Community Playhouse chronological list of productions from November 1917-July 1934; statistics regarding performers, 1938-1940; Pasadena Playhouse Association chronological list of productions from July 1934-circa 1937; activities records 1947-1952; and theater program data sheets from 1952-1953 and circa 1960. Also includes calendars of events dated 1950-1956, 1958-1963, and 1965-1968.

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Articles, brochures, and fliers

Manuscripts

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.

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Negatives: Various people and events

Manuscripts

Folders 1-5 contain negatives of photographs depicting Gilmor Brown and Charlie Prickett; Lenore Shanewise; various people in groups, from Fairfax Walkup files; and portraits of unidentified people. Folders 6-9 depict special events and festivities including a Pasadena Playhouse brunch; a buffet dinner on the set of What Every Woman Knows (1931); and unidentified special events, including possibly a Midsummer Drama Festival breakfast (undated).

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1955-1956

Manuscripts

Includes Notes on Pasadena Playhouse Reorganization circa 1955, (Folder 6).

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Pasadena Community Playhouse and affiliated companies

Manuscripts

Includes also Summer Art Colony (1921) and Drama League at Pasadena Community Playhouse (1922) programs.

mssPlayhouse

Events and projects

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