Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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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Contains financial and budgetary reports from 1954, 1956-1960 (January and February), and 1968-1969, plus Commissary Records, 1957-1964; correspondence with the Internal Revenue Service, 1937-1938, 1942, and 1959; and assorted receipts and invoices, 1938-1959 and 1967.
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Works include: Brighouse, Harold, Hobson's Choice (1916, 1950); Rostand, Edmund, The Far Princess (1934); Van Dyke, Philip, Life Sentence (1937); Sinclair, Upton, Love in Arms ([1935]); Gribble, Henry Wagstaff, March Hares ([1940]); Sternheim, Carl, The Mask of Virtue ([1938]); and Rouverol, Aurania (Ellerbeck), Money ([1935]).
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Includes publications concerning the Little Theatre movement that feature the Pasadena Community Playhouse: Little Theatres (New York Drama League, December 1923), with an article on Gilmor Brown; The Little Theatre Magazine (January and November 1933, and February 1934), with photographs and news concerning the Playhouse and its activities; and Little Theatre Arts (February 1937). Also contains serials published by the American National Theatre Association (ANTA), 1960 and 1969; and individual issues of titles including American Theatre Magazine (March 1940); Fink's Magazine (April 1908); The Play Pictorial (1905?); The Playgoer (1939, 1941, 1954, undated); Script (Rob Wagner, September 1943); The Theater (1887-1890); Theater and School (January 1936); The Theatre Annual (1943, 1944); Theatre in Education (April 1951); Theatre Magazine (1924, 1926-1928); Theatrical Times (1846, 1847, 1849, undated); and The Theatergoer (1942, 1945, 1946, 1948). Also includes periodicals concerning general topics, such as the Pasadena Lens and TAB (weekly entertainment guides, 1960) and Survey Graphic (1946), and music (The Concertgoer, 1951).
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Contains photographs from the Workshop, 1926-1934, and Laboratory Theatre, 1936-1943. Also contains photographs depicting One-Act Play Tournaments, approximately 1938-1962.
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Contains Playhouse Playbill: Programs, October 1937-August 1941; Mainstage playbills, 1940-1945, 1955; Curtain Call, programs and playbills, 1951-1963, undated; and assorted programs, 1960s.
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