Mission MISSION PLAYHOUSE Historical Walk Maps/Transportation Library Schools Parks Grapevine Arbor Mission District Valley Boulevard The Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Parish Hilton Los Angeles/San Gabriel Ramona Museum of California History San Gabriel Historical Association Museum/ Hayes House The historic San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, built in 1927 by John Steven McGroarty specifically to present The Mission Play, a 4 1/2-hour production about the history of California that he wrote, is a magnificent and opulent theater with genteel side boxes offering "a place to be seen," and chandeliers which replicate the lanterns used on Spanish galleons which sailed around the tip of South America en route to California in the 1800s. Click to visit the Mission Playhouse Website.