Saint Ignatius High School

Drama

The Harlequins have a rich 75-year history at Saint Ignatius. Each season, students along with girls from area high schools, produce a play in the fall and a musical in the spring.

"My experience with the Harlequins has been a formative part of my time at Saint Ignatius because it was my first experience of the brotherhood that Ignatius is so known for. I have developed in all aspects of theater whether it be on stage, behind a camera, or building a set. If you're looking for a bonding experience and a creative way to express your love for the arts, the Harlequins is for you."

Jayden Sloan '24
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The Saint Ignatius Harlequins
 

The Harlequins have a rich history at Saint Ignatius for more than 75 years. Each season, students along with girls from area high schools produce a play in the fall and a musical in the spring.

There are various ways for students to get involved in our shows, whether it is onstage, backstage, or in the orchestra pit. Learn more about our productions and how to get invovled below!



2025 Fall Play


 
The Saint Ignatius Harlequins present
 

Clue: High School Edition 

in the Breen Center for the Performing Arts at Saint Ignatius High School

Auditions: September 10th-11th
Shows: November 14th-16th

 
 
It’s a dark and stormy night, and you’ve been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well, dead. So whodunit? Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard as they race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before the body count stacks up. Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, CLUE is a madcap comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.
 
Keep an eye out on this page and our Instagram @SIHS_harlequins for information meetings and audition workshops in August and September! Visit our Harlequins audition page for information on preparing your headshot, resume, and monologue for auditions.
 

 

2026 Spring Musical


 
The Saint Ignatius Harlequins present
 

Guys and Dolls

in the Breen Center for the Performing Arts at Saint Ignatius High School

Auditions: December 9th-11th
Shows: March 20th-22nd, 27th-28th

 
Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics and won a bevy of awards, including Tony Awards, Drama Desks and Oliviers. Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they've been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.

 More information about auditions and audition workshops will be posted in November. Visit our Harlequins audition page for information on preparing your headshot, resume, and song for auditions.
 
 

Stage and Technical Crew


Students have the opportunity to learn and work in a state-of-the-art theater while mentoring with professionals who excel in their fields. All those wishing to join stage crew will be trained in how to work the shop: building, power tools, and theatre etiquette. Those wishing to join build crew are not obligated to work run crew. Build crew meets 3:30-6:30 Monday through Thursday. Run crew members will be selected further into the show process. 

The Harlequins' mentor program is unparalleled. We believe that students should be empowered to discover themselves as artists rather than just watching others design. Our professional mentors in stage management, light design, sound design, set design, costume design, props, and electrical maintenance supervise our student designers so that, in collaboration with the director, they can create a production. Interested students first work to learn the ropes of their area, then may be selected to work as assistant to our junior and senior designers and managers. Our students leave their time with the Harlequins able to work and design at the professional level. 

Interested in getting involved with crew and design? Contact John Ebert, the Breen Center Technical Director, at jebert@ignatius.edu
  • Become a Drama Patron

    Become a Drama Patron and support Saint Ignatius High School student productions. Your patron contribution will be listed in the fall play program and in our spring musical program.

  • Shrek the Musical

    "Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek...." And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. Throw in a short-tempered bad guy, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you've got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there's one on hand... and his name is Shrek. Performed by the Harlequins in Spring 2025, this musical earned 9 Dazzle Award nominations.

  • The Outsiders

    Performed by the Harlequins in Fall 2024, the Outsiders in an adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age-novel about rival teenage gangs in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Greasers come from troubled working-class backgrounds, contrasted with the Socials, whose members are from upper-middle-class families. Like the novel, the play centers on 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis, a member of the Greasers gang.

  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, is a story about the triumph of the common man amid the buffoonery of big business. When a restless, creative, and ambitious window washer named J. Pierrepont Finch happens upon a book entitled 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying', he decides to begin his rise up the corporate ladder. This show was performed by the Harlequins in Spring 2024.

  • Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic

    Performed by the Harlequins in Fall 2023, this parody follows some sweet Puffs (well, not always sweet) who are just trying to learn what it means to live in this magical world, figure out who they are, and develop friendships - all while attending a school (of magic and magic) at the same time as a certain boy wizard.

Production Team