PAST SEASONS

A look back at the rich history of Ohio’s oldest continuously running community theatre.

Learn about the history of Harlequins

2020’s

2023 - 2024
President: Donna Jean Evans
Productions: Motherhood: The Musical, A Christmas Cabaret, What is “Murder”?, Stepping Out

2022 - 2023
President: Donna Jean Evans
Productions: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, It’s a Wonderful Life, Silent Sky, Scotland Road

2021 - 2022
President: TBA
Productions: TBA

2020 - 2021
President: Jennifer Wertz
Productions: 19 Days of Covid (an online production)

2010’s

2019 - 2020
President: Kate Volz
Productions: The Vagina Monologues, Doubt: A Parable, Death and Taxes

2018 - 2019
President: Kate Volz
Productions: Assassins (an ‘Edge’ Production), The Complete History of America (Abridged), Side by Side Sondheim, Exit Laughing

2017 - 2018
President: Ann Marie Muehlhauser
Productions: Godspell, Artifice, Squabbles

2016 - 2017
President: Jim Brokaw
Productions: The Sunshine Boys, Bell, Book and Candle, All in the Timing

2015 - 2016
President: Jim Brokaw
Productions: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Leading Ladies, Calendar Girls

2014 - 2015
President: Deb Presser
Productions: 45 Seconds From Broadway, Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), Noises Off

2013 - 2014
President: Deb Presser
Productions: Eat Your Heart Out, Young Frankenstein: The Musical, Angel Street, Peter Panic (a ‘Kid Kompany’ Production)

2012 - 2013
President: Lori Demres
Productions: Next to Normal, Apron Strings, Moonlight and Magnolias, Touchtone "M" for Murder (a ‘Kid Kompany’ Production), Safe (an ‘Edge’ Production)

2011 - 2012
President: Donna Evans
Productions: The Guys, A Christmas Carol, Marrying Terry, The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, The Canterbury Tales or Geoffrey Chaucer's Flying Circus (a ‘Kid Kompany’ Production), Evil Dead: The Musical (an ‘Edge’ Production)

2010 - 2011
President: Lisa Wiley/ Donna Evans
Productions: Twelve Angry Jurors, Suite Surrender, Out of Sight, Out of Murder, Sleepy Hollow (a ‘Kid Kompany’ Production)

2000’s

2009 - 2010
President: Lisa Wiley
Productions: Lying in State, Boston Marriage, The Iliad, the Odyssey, and all of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or less

2008 - 2009
President: George Muehlhauser
Productions: The Best Man, Ravenscroft, The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth

2007 - 2008
President: Lori Demres
Productions: Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille, Celebration A Piece of My Heart, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

2006 - 2007
President: Lori Demres
Productions: The Guys, Little Shop of Horrors, Charlie Cox Runs With Scissors, Deathtrap

2005 - 2006
President: Ann Marie Whyte
Productions: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Wrong for Each Other, Doing Time at the Alamo, House for Sale

2004 - 2005
President: Dennis Baylor
Productions: Baby, Light Sensitive, Open Season

2003 - 2004
President: Dennis Baylor
Productions: 37 Post Cards, Carnival, Beau Jest

2002 - 2003
President: Kathleen Hoffman
Productions: Museum, And the World Goes 'Round, Celebration Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain

2001 - 2002
President: Jack Kirwan
Productions: Something's Afoot, Visiting Mr. Green, Proposals

2000 - 2001
President: George Muehlhauser
Productions: Company of Wayward Saints, Cemetery Club, Love Letters, She Loves Me

1990’s

1999 - 2000
President: Ann Marie Whyte
Productions: Greetings, 1940 Radio Hour, Barrymore's Ghost, Tribute

1998 - 1999
President: Bob Davis
Productions: Guys and Dolls, Sylvia, Don't Dress for Dinner

1997 - 1998
President: Jim Brokaw
Productions: My Fair Lady, Murder at Howard Johnson's, The Day They Kidnapped the Pope

1996 - 1997
President: Jim Brokaw
Productions: Into the Woods, Dearly Departed, It Had to Be You

1995 - 1996
President: Jack Mulaney
Productions: Grouho, A Life In Revue, Victoria's House, I Hate Hamlet

1994 - 1995
President: Kathleen Hoffman
Productions: Lend Me a Tenor, Secret Affairs of Mildred Wilde, Lost in Yonkers

1993 - 1994
President: Scott Parmer
Productions: Fox Fire, Pvt Wars, Dining Room, Love, Sex and the IRS

1992 - 1993
President: Dennis Baylor
Productions: Musical Murder Mysteries of 1940, Sunshine Boys, The Nerd

1991 - 1992
President: Dennis Baylor
Productions: June Groom, Victim, The Foreigner

1990 - 1991
President: Scott Parmer
Productions: Steel Magnolias, A Walk in the Woods, Out of Sight, Out of Murder

1980’s

1989 - 1990
President: Jack Mulaney
Productions: Silver Whistles, Picnic, Squabbles

1988 - 1989
President: Kathleen Moir
Productions: Belles on Their Toes, Vincent, Dancing in the End Zone, Corpse

1987 - 1988
President: Kathleen Moir
Productions: Cheaper by the Dozen, Mass Appeal, Send Me No Flowers, The Housekeeper

1986 - 1987
President: Joan Klos
Productions: What Did We Do Wrong, Glass Menagerie, Charing Cross Road, Breakfast With Les and Bess

1985 - 1986
President: Rob Sawicki
Productions: Mass Appeal, Same Time, Next Year, Fools, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Crimes of the Heart

1984 - 1985
President: Ron Scherer
Productions: Visit to a Small Planet, Case of Libel, Talent for Murder, Dracula the Musical

1983 - 1984
President: Ron Scherer
Productions: Piano Bar, No Sex Please, We're British, Death of a Salesman, Thousand Clowns

1982 - 1983
President: Sam Shearer
Productions: Gin Game, Fantastiks, Chapter 11, Move Over Mrs. Markham

1981 - 1982
President: Nate Fuller
Productions: Catch Me If You Can, Good Doctor, Tribute

1980 - 1981
President: Joan Klos
Productions: Detective Story, The Girl in the Freudian Slip, Night Watch

1970’s

1979 - 1980
President: Jack Mulaney
Productions: California Suite, Best Man, Relatively Speaking

1978 - 1979
President: Bette Beirer
Productions: Veronica's Room, Harvey, Animal Farm

1977 - 1978
President: Harry Stenzel
Productions: Thurber Carnival, Arsenic and Old Lace, Highlights of Harlequins Past, The Gingerbread Lady

1976 - 1977
President: Bill Heim
Productions: 6 Rms. Rv. Vu, J.B., The Sunshine Boys

1975 - 1976
President: Jan DaGaiu
Productions: Private Lives, Spofford, Twelfth Night

1974 - 1975
President: Ruth Jacobs
Productions: The Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds, A Fate Worse Than Death, Come Blow Your Horn

1973 - 1974
President: Jack Mulaney
Productions: Lovers and Other Strangers, Dr. Cook's Garden, How the Other Half Loves

1972 - 1973
President: Karl Ailing
Productions: Bell, Book & Candle, Dear Friends, Any Wednesday

1971 - 1972
President: Bill Heim
Productions: The Four-poster, Royal Gambit, Harvey, Plaza Suite

1970 - 1971
President: Bob Jacobs
Productions: You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water is Running, The Company of Wayward Saints, Mister Roberts, Spoonriver Anthology

1960’s

1969 - 1970
President: Bill Heim
Productions: Me and Thee, Lion in Winter, A Shot in the Dark

1968 - 1969
President: Bill Heim
Productions: The Miser, Come Back, Little Sheba, Barefoot in the Park

1967 - 1968
President: Shirley Crandall
Productions: The Odd Couple, The Subject Was Roses, My Three Angels

1966 - 1967
President: Byron Oldham
Productions: The Curious Savage, The Absence of a Cello, Speaking of Murder, The Women

1965 - 1966
President: Earl Boitel
Productions: Mary, Mary, Never Too Late, A Far Country

1964 - 1965
President: Nell Gano
Productions: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Good Bye Charlie, Sunday in New York

1963 - 1964
President: Jack Mulaney
Productions: Inherit the Wind, Everyone Loves Opal, Three Men on a Horse

1962 - 1963
President: Nell Gano
Productions: A Streetcar Named Desire, Critic's Choice, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1961 - 1962
President: Joan Klos
Productions: Send Me No Flowers, Monique, Light Up The Sky

1960 - 1961
President: Ruth Denison
Productions: Third Best Sport, Picnic, Janus

1950’s

1959 - 1960
President: Rex Gano
Productions: Blythe Spirit, California, Here I Come, Room Service

1958 - 1959
President: Paul Squire
Productions: Kind Sir (Our first show at the Coach House), The Mousetrap, The Rainmaker

1957 - 1958
President: Jack Mulaney
Productions: Mr. Roberts (Our last play at Adams school), Roberta (Performed at the new High School)

1956 - 1957
President: Andy Mazur
Productions: The Solid Gold Cadillac, Jenny Kissed Me

1955 - 1956
President: Weldon Sheerer
Productions: Nine Girls, The Beautiful People, Midsummer

1954 - 1955
President: Jack Mulaney
Productions: My Three Angels, The Glass Menagerie

1953 - 1954
Productions: Lo and Behold

1952 - 1953
Productions: Affairs of State, Mr. Pim Passes By, The Velvet Glove, Light Up the Sky

1951 - 1952
Productions: Years Ago, The Shop at Sly Corner, The Man Who Came to Dinner

1950 - 1951
Productions: Goodbye My Fancy, Good Housekeeping, The Great Big Doorstep

1940’s

1949 - 1950
Productions: 619. Portrait of a Polish Family, Night Must Fall, Life With Father

1948 - 1949
Productions: Our Town, You Can't Take It With You, Ladies in Retirement, John Loves Mary

1947 - 1948
Productions: Dear Ruth, Angel Street, The Male Animal

1946 - 1947
Productions: Blithe Spirit, Laura, Morning's at Seven, My Sister Eileen

1945 - 1946
Productions: Kiss and Tell, A Murder Has Been Arranged, Three's a Family

1944 - 1945
Productions: Claudia, Over Twenty-One

1943 - 1944
Productions: Papa Is All, What a Life

1942 - 1943
Productions: Petticoat Fever, Kind Lady, Arsenic and Old Lace

1941 - 1942
Productions: George Washington Slept Here, Out of the Frying Pan, Personal Appearance

1940 - 1941
Productions: Margin for Error, Double Door, George and Margaret

1930’s

1939 - 1940
Productions: Our Town, Biography, Room Service

1938 - 1939
Productions: Penny Wise, Journey's End, First Lady

1937 - 1938
Productions: Post Road, Outward Bound, Fresh Fields

1936 - 1937
Productions: The Bishop Misbehaves, On Stage, Hay Fever

1935 - 1936
Productions: Seven Keys to Baldpate, Holiday, Accent on Youth

1934 - 1935
Productions: Three Cornered Moon

1933 - 1934
Productions: The High Road

1932 - 1933
Productions: June Moon, Cock Robin

1931 - 1932
Productions: Hell Bent for Heaven, Hazel Kirke, Tea for Three, The Play's the Thing

1930 - 1931
Productions: Why Harry, The Perfect Alibi, The Famous Mrs. Fair

1920’s

1929 - 1930
Productions: Meet the Wife
One-act plays: Man, Night at the Inn, Cinderella Married, R. U. R., The Circle

1928 - 1929
Productions: The Torchbearers, The Dover Road, Right You Are
One-act plays: Food, Moonshine, The Valiant, Suppressed Desires

1927 - 1928
Productions: Mr. Pim Passes By, Outward Bound, You and I