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Harlequin Productions
We are a professional, non-profit theater company offering a year-round season of classics, musicals, and new works as well as training, outreach and touring opportunities. Founded in 1991, Harlequin owns the State Theater in downtown Olympia where it serves the South Sound region with its resident theater productions. Harlequin is dedicated to high quality theater productions that excite, challenge and enrich theater artists and audiences alike. Through the immediacy of theatrical events, we explore and strive to illuminate the human condition common to all.
Company History
In 1991, a group of five people--James L. This, Scot Whitney, Linda Whitney, Phil Annis and Ronna Smith-- founded the non-profit theater company. Their goal was to produce a more challenging style of theater than was available locally. Together, they totalled three directors, one actor, one set designer, one technical wizard, and one business manager. They wrote their mission statement, pooled their startup capital--a whopping $400 cash--and began producing individual shows at the Washington Center Stage II, a "black box" venue that seated about 100.
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99
productions and counting, Harlequin has been creating
new works, neglected works of merit, and unconventional
treatments of classics for sixteen years.
The Rocky Horror Show marks our 100th production!
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