Pasadena Playhouse

Modern Pasadena Playhouse (1986-Present)

Date Title 2021
Sep 2019 Little Shop of Horrors x
Apr 2018 Belleville x
May 2007 The Constant Wife x
Mar 2007 Cuttin' Up x
Jan 2007 Defiance x
Jun 2006 I Do! I Do! x
Jun 2006 The Last Five Years x
May 2006 Sherlock Holmes, The Final Adventure x
Mar 2006 As You Like It: A California Concoction x
Oct 2005 Open Window x
Aug 2005 Tea at Five x
Jun 2005 Purlie x
Apr 2005 Private Lives x
Mar 2005 Doubt x
Aug 2003 As Bees in Honey Drown x
Feb 2001 How the Other Half Loves x
Jan 1998 The Real Thing x
Feb 1995 Radio Gals x
Nov 1993 Sweet, Smart, Rodger's & Hart x
Sep 1989 Groucho, A Life in Revue x
Nov 1987 Mail x

Old Pasadena Playhouse Mainstage (1925-1969)

The below lists of productions is based on notations in the various playbills in our "Murray Yeats" Collection. If the production is bold it means that we have the actual playbill, or other material showing a cast list, within the archive. All other productions are simply noted as having occurred. A unique aspect of the Pasadena Playhouse is that they would # each production, this allows us to see exactly were the holes are in our collection.

  • Marked productions are in the Murray Yeats collection
# Date Play 2021
1015 Jan 4, 1967 Lady in the Dark x
Sep 23, 1965 The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife x
" The Firebugs x
987 Jun 2, 1961 Father of the Bride x
981 Dec 1960 Nine x
756 Dec 25, 1946 Mr. Pickwick x *
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449 Nov 19, 1935 Bird in Hand
448 Nov 5, 1935 The Cherry Orchard
447 Oct 22, 1935 Fly Away Home
446 Oct 8, 1935 Judgment Day x *
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425 Mar 5, 1935 Judgment Day
424 Feb 26, 1935 Mystery of Broadway Asylum
423 Feb 19, 1935 Gallows Glorious
422 Feb 11, 1935 Old Heidelberg x *
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? Apr 10, 1934 She Passed Through Lorraine x *
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378 Dec 19, 1933 Mr. Pickwick x *
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374 Oct 31, 1933 Best Sellers x *
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365 Jun 27, 1933 Foolscap x *
364 Jun 6, 1933 Volpone x *
363 - - -
362 May 9, 1933 Peeticoat Influence x *
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359 Apr 1933 Maria Marten x *
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357 Mar 14, 1933 Too True to Be Good
356 Feb 27, 1933 Liliom x *
355 Jan 31, 1933 Louder Please x *
354 Jan 24, 1933 The Cricket on the Hearth x *
353 Jan 3, 1933 The Devil Passes
352 Dec 26, 1932 Alice in Wonderland x *
351 Dec 20, 1932 The Cricket on the Hearth x *
350 Nov 29, 1932 King Henry VIII x *
349 Nov 15, 1932 Brief Moment x *
348 Nov 8, 1932 The Man With a Load of Mischief x *
347 Oct 1932 The First Mrs. Fraser
346 Oct 18, 1932 Mr. Mary Sawyer x *
345 Oct 1932 These Few Ashes
344 Sep 27, 1932 Lightnin' x *
343 Sep 13, 1932 Louder, Please x *
342 Aug 30, 1932 Captain Brassbound's Conversion x *
341 Aug 16, 1932 The Butter and Egg Man x *
340 Jul 26, 1932 Peer Gynt x *
339 Jul 12, 1932 A Plain Man and His Wife x *
338 Jun 28, 1932 Green Grows the Lilacs x *
337 Jun 9, 1932 Hullabaloo x *
336 May 26, 1932 Around the World in Eighty Days x *
335 May 12, 1932 A Murder Has Been Arranged x *
334 Apr 28, 1932 I Love An Actress x *
333 Apr 14, 1932 Episode x *
- Apr 11, 1932 Damon and Pythlas x *
332 Mar 28, 1932 What Might Happen
331 Mar 17, 1932 The Young Idea x *
330 Mar 3, 1932 When Knighthood Was in Flower x *
329 Feb 15, 1932 Censored x *
328 Feb 4, 1932 The Music Master x *
327 Jan 21, 1932 Once in a Lifetime x *
- Jan 18, 1932 Censored x *
326 Jan 7, 1932 Berkeley Square x *
325 Dec 24, 1931 Canaries Sometimes Sing x *
324 Dec 10, 1931 Twelfth Night x *
323 Nov 26, 1931 Passing Brompton Road x *
322 Nov 12, 1931 The Apple Cart x *
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315 Jul 23, 1931 The Three Musketeers x *
314 Jul 9, 1931 A Pair of Spectacles x
" Jul 9, 1931 Overruled x
- Jun 29, 1931 Lot's Wife x *
- Jun 29, 1931 Such a Charming Young Man x *
- Jun 29, 1931 Big Lake x *
313 Jun 25, 1931 Broken Dishes x *
312 Jun 11, 1931 Many Waters
311 May 28, 1931 Green Fire x *
310 May 14, 1931 The Watched Pot x *
? Mar 5, 1931 Richelieu
? Feb 5, 1931 What Every Woman Knows x *
? Jan 22, 1931 Lady Mary, Ltd. x
? Dec 11, 1930 Spring Song
? Nov 27, 1930 Shore Acres x *
? Nov 13, 1930 Othello x *
? Aug 14, 1930 Dracula
? Jul 31, 1930 The Man, Saul x *
? Jun 5, 1930 The Queen's Husband x *
? May 22, 1930 Wings Over Europe x *
? May 8, 1930 Candida x *
? Apr 24, 1930 To What Red Hell? x *
? Apr 10, 1930 They Had to See Paris x *
? Mar 27, 1930 Spindrift x *
? Mar 13, 1930 As You Like It x *
? Mar 6, 1930 Our American Cousin x *
? Feb 20, 1930 Lavender Ladies x *
? Jan 30, 1930 The Armoured Train x *
? Jan 9, 1930 Jack Straw x *
? Dec 19, 1929 The Bird Blue x *
? Nov 28, 1929 Atta Boy, Oscar x *
? Nov 7, 1929 Man and Superman x *
? Oct 22, 1929 Julius Caesar x *
? Oct 2, 1929 Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model x *
? Sep 24, 1929 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary x *
? Sep 10, 1929 The Plutocrat x *
? Aug 27, 1929 Commencement Days x *
? Aug 13, 1929 Trilby x *
? Jul 9, 1929 Gentlemen, Be Seated x *
? Jun 11, 1929 Under Cover x *
? May 28, 1929 An Enemy of the People x *
? May 14, 1929 The High Road
? Apr 30, 1929 No. 17 x *
? Apr 16, 1929 Eva the Fifth x *
? Apr 1, 1929 Lazarus Laughed x *
? Mar 5, 1929 Ten Nights in a Bar-Room x *
? Feb 5, 1929 The Dybbuk x *
? Dec 25, 1928 A Kiss for Cinderella x *
? Dec 11, 1928 The Torch-Bearers x *
? Nov 27, 1928 The Living Corpse x *
? Nov 13, 1928 Hobson's Choice x *
? Oct 30, 1928 The Wolves x *
- Oct 21, 1928 Coleman Chamber Concerts x *
? Oct 2, 1928 Street of a Thousand Shadows x *

Membership Meeting productions - venue unknown

Date Title 2021
Aug 1933 Under One Roof x *

Recital Hall - Second Stage

The Recital Hall is the secondary stage of the Pasadena Playhouse built in 1925 and was the venue of the acting schools in the 1920's and 30's.

Date Play Company 2021
Mar 2, 1935 Frou, Frou
Feb 23, 1935 For Safe Keeping
Feb 16, 1935 Ladies of Cranford
Dec 3, 1932 The Fall of Timothy Withers Pasadena Playhouse Workshop x
May 14, 1932 Peter Rabbit
May 28, 1932 The Saint Draws a Dagger
May 14, 1932 Justice Does a Spring Dance
May 14, 1932 Peter Rabbit
May 12, 1932 The Saint Draws a Dagger
May 12, 1932 A Murder Has Been Arranged
May 7, 1932 Justice Does a Spring Dance
May 7, 1932 Little Black Sambo
Apr 30, 1932 Dad Steps In
Apr 23, 1932 Dad Steps In
Apr 16, 1932 Fakers
Apr 2, 1932 Wing Shadows
Mar 26, 1932 Wing Shadows
Mar 19, 1932 Bloodstains
Mar 12, 1932 Bloodstains
Mar 5, 1932 Bondage of the Moon
Feb 27, 1932 Bondage of the Moon
Feb 23, 1932 Hunger Hall Pasadena Playhouse Workshop x
Feb 20, 1932 Pleased to Meet You
Feb 13, 1932 Pleased to Meet You
Feb 6, 1932 Someone in the House
Jan 30, 1932 Someone in the House
Jan 23, 1932 Dwellers on the Bridge
Jan 22, 1932 The King's Romance x
Aug 8, 1930 The Lost Silk Hat Pasadena Playhouse School x
Aug 8, 1930 King Lear Pasadena Playhouse School x
Aug 8, 1930 Overtones Pasadena Playhouse School x
Aug 8, 1930 A Woman of Character Pasadena Playhouse School x
Aug 8, 1930 At Piney Ridge Pasadena Playhouse School x
Jul 12, 1930 Farewell to a Finish Pasadena Playhouse Workshop x
Jan 17, 1930 Spreading the News The Senior Class x
Oct 20, 1928 Her People Pasadena Playhouse Workshop x
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