City of Vancouver Archives

Series consists of Actor's Equity contracts and contracts related to specific productions. These are agreements between the actor and the Playhouse related to appearances in specific productions.

Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

AM1032
Fonds
1954-2001; (predominant 1967-2001)

The fonds consists of Board of Directors records (minutes and correspondence), 1965-1986; operational records (correspondence outwards, subject files and administration files), 1965-1986; public relations records (general files, invitations, publicity for individual plays) 1962-1989; productions (notes, correspondence and contracts) 1963-1988; production scripts; personnel records, 1955-1975; and publications 1963-1989. Included within the fonds are programs, handbills, posters, scripts, photographs and plans. There is also material from Playhouse Holiday Theatre, the children's wing of the theatre. The records are organized into 29 series and listed alphabetically by series title.

Playhouse Centre of British Columbia

Che Guevara

AM1032-S23--
File
1969-1970

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Playwrights

AM1032-S19
Series
1965-1977

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of correspondence with playwrights and dramaturge reports for submitted plays.

General correspondence

AM1032-S9
Series
1960-1986

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of correspondence on all aspects of Playhouse operations. Accompanying material includes agreements, negotiation documents, contracts, reports and play submissions.

[Contracts] - Doc

AM1032-S4--
File
1988-1989

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Theatres

AM1032-S29
Series
1964-1979

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of correspondence with and news releases, annual reports and programmes of other theatres.

Staff files

AM1032-S28
Series
1963-1975

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consist of letters of agreement, contracts, resumes, correspondence and photographs of Playhouse staff members.

Rights and royalties

AM1032-S27
Series
1969-1974

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of correspondence related to obtaining production rights and information on royalties for various productions.

Public relations files

AM1032-S26
Series
1962-1987

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of records documenting public relations activities of the Playhouse Theatre, including photographs.

Programs, posters and handbills

AM1032-S24
Series
1961-1989

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series includes information on individual Playhouse productions.

Productions

AM1032-S23
Series
1965-1993

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of information on individual Playhouse productions.

Production scripts

AM1032-S22
Series
1964-1989

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of scripts for Playhouse productions. There are gaps in the record.

Production plans

AM1032-S21
Series
1971-1988

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of plans for stage layouts for some productions.

Holiday Theatre - theatres

AM1032-S16
Series
1963-1975

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Sereis consists of correspondence with various children's theatres, including British Children's Theatre which provides insight into the philosophy of children's theatre in the 1960s and 1970s.

Holiday Theatre - Theatre-in-Education

AM1032-S15
Series
1963-1977

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of files on community contacts, grade 4 and grade 7 programs, productions, School board correspondence, script correspondence and company manager's reports.

Holiday Theatre - staff

AM1032-S14
Series
1966-1975

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of cast lists correspondence with playwrights, letters of agreement, Actor's equity contracts and rights.

Holiday Theatre - finance

AM1032-S12
Series
1963-1976

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of financial records including budgets for production and for Theatre-in-Education. There are many chronological gaps in the records.

Holiday Theatre - scripts

AM1032-S11
Series
1954-1974

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of scripts from Holiday Theatre productions.

Director's correspondence

AM1032-S6
Series
1964-1983

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of records relating to activities carried out by the Director including arrangements for launching plays, speaking engagements and audience response files.

Correspondence outward

AM1032-S5
Series
1967-1986

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of correspondence sent by various members of the staff.

Board of Directors' records

AM1032-S3
Series
1965-2001

Part of Playhouse Centre of British Columbia fonds

Series consists of minutes of Board of Directors (Board of Governors) meetings, annual general meetings, other committee meetings, annual reports and other reports and correspondence of the Board.

Actors' biographies