The present intimate auditorium comfortably seats 210. Each row is elevated above the one in front so that there truly is no bad seat in the house. Area artists exhibit their works in the lobby for each show, while other scenic artists create an ever-changing panorama as settings for the plays.

Each season spotlights off-Broadway and on-Broadway musicals, comedies, dramas, and occasional premiere presentations of original works by regional playwrights. Since 1971, Season Ticket Pass Holders have been invited to exchange their passes for tickets in any combination that they chose for the regular season productions. That tradition continues today.

In 1995 Lamp-Lite started a tradition of producing a big summer family musical with a wildly successful production of Oliver! An equally popular presentation of Annie followed the next year, only to be topped by The Wizard of Oz in 1997. Annie, The Wizard of Oz, Oliver!, and The Sound of Music were brought back as perennial favorites, and Lamp-Lite introduced Bye Bye Birdie, Anne of Green Gables, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Seussical the Musical, Annie Warbucks, The Boy Friend, and

Willy Wonka to East Texas audiences. A two-week Children’s Musical Workshop is offered in conjunction with the Summer Musical.

In addition to the regular season productions, the Lamp-Lite Players collaborate with Millard’s Crossing by presenting Sarah McMullan’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Historic Village’s Annual Old-Fashioned Christmas; perform for area schools, civic organizations, and the Nacogdoches Judy McDonald Public Library; and participate in the Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce LEADERS OF TOMORROW CREW Fine Arts Day by conducting a half-day workshop. The Lamp-Lite Players also provide the facilities for the NAC Kids Summer Theatre Camp and Performances, and Regents Academy’s Annual Musical. 

Educational opportunities for high school students have included a UIL Literary Criticism Workshop at Lamp-Lite during the 2023-2024 Season and a “From Page to Stage” workshop for Nacogdoches High School English III students at NHS during the 2024-2025 Season.

Volunteers join the ever-broadening number of participants of the community theatre, acting on-stage, running lights, building and painting sets, creating costumes, making music, dancing, parking cars, working the box office, ushering, putting together publications and mail-outs, writing grant applications, hosting the gala, performing in the community, conducting educational workshops and clinics, and more.

Throughout 2022-2024, the Lamp-Lite Theatre Facilities underwent several improvements totaling over $80,000 and including new air conditioning units, upgraded sound equipment, a new roof, new floors in the dressing rooms and orchestra pit, new steps and ramp to the main entrance, and new stripes in the parking lot. 

Many Lamp-Lite Players and Audience Members, as well as a generous $25,000 grant from the CHARLES AND LOIS MARIE BRIGHT FOUNDATION, made all of these improvements possible.

We will continue to update the theatre in the 2025-26 Season and beyond.

We welcome your contributions to our Building & Maintenance Fund for Lamp-Lite Theatre. Now in our 52nd Season, we look with pride at our "vintage old building."

Originally built from hundred-year-old planks from the Phelan Warehouse, our building has been added to, and improved, many times over the years and is always in need of a "little face lift."

As a reminder, Lamp-Lite Threatre is an IRS-approved 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and your donations should be tax deductible.

• Underwrite a Show.

• Buy a Season Pass.

• Come to the Shows.

• Bring friends to the shows.

• Mention that you saw their ad in the program when you visit our advertisers’ businesses.

• Place an ad in our program for your business.

• Donate to the Building Fund as often as you can.

• Volunteer for a stage crew / stage production role or audition for a show.

• Volunteer for one of the many other jobs available that make Lamp-Lite run smoothly.