With a new artistic director, and the relentless efforts of devotees, the 106-year-old Pasadena Playhouse – once mired in bankruptcy — is buzzing again.
Jenny Slattery can set the scene the day she heard the Pasadena Playhouse will receive the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award.
Everyone could feel the impact: The honor — given by the Tony Awards Administration Committee on the recommendation of the American Theatre Critics Association, honoring its history of presenting “innovative and inspiring” productions over the past century — is a defining moment for the Playhouse. The Pasadena Playhouse, shown here on Friday, May 26, 2023, will receive the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award, in Pasadena.
This national triumph is the latest act to a Broadway-worthy story that started in 1917, when Gilmor Brown founded the Playhouse as a community theater. The Spanish Colonial Revival building at 39 S. Molino Ave. in Pasadena opened in 1925. In 1937, the Playhouse was named the official State Theater of California.
Artist and actress Peggy Ebright remembers the lean years well. She joined the Playhouse in 1961, as a member of the Junior League and the Playhouse’s Children’s Theatre. Ebright, a member of the Playhouse’s Board of Trustees, said the curtain rose on many happy seasons after that, including 20 years with Sheldon Epps as artistic director which brought the Playhouse national acclaim.
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