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The Background series includes bylaws and a chronology of the DAC.

The Administrative series is composed of the usual organizational materials: agendas and minutes, newsletters, correspondence, and reports. A substantive part of this series is the long run of minutes of the Board of Directors from 1955 to 1967. Arranged in chronological order by year, these records summarize the activities and concerns of the DAC very thoroughly. They also show the structure of the organization in any given year. Although not every year is consistently documented, these minutes provide an invaluable retrospective source showing how the DAC changed and evolved over the course of time.

Also illuminating within the Administrative series, despite the obvious chronological gaps, are the general correspondence and the financial records. All of these records are arranged by year in ascending order. Given that these records span from the founding of the DAC in 1954 up to the mid 1960s, they complement the set of minutes and fill in the details that these can only summarize. The correspondence mainly documents two things: 1) organizational structure and 2) the DAC's relationship with other individuals, associations, agencies, or institutions.

In the Activities series, the Steering Committee for a Repertory Theater materials is comprised of proposals, reports, and correspondence that represents an excellent way to understand the evolution of the DAC's project to establish a professional theater in Ann Arbor. Another project the DAC tackled was the Long Range Plan to guarantee the successful and lasting presence of a theater group in Ann Arbor.