Over the past half century, Lamp-Lite Theatre has  presented roughly 350 separate plays. With an average of six  performances per play, that works out to well over 2,100 performances  that have delighted audiences throughout East Texas for more than 50 years. 

Here is a list of those plays, in alphabetical order, along with the season(s) each play was performed on our stage. NOTE: a list of Past Performances by Season follows this alphabetical list.

PLAY & SEASON(S) PERFORMED:

1776 —1986-87, 2000-01, 2016-17

A
A Christmas Carol — 1973-74, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1993-94, 1996-97
A Christmas Special — 2022-23
A Little Bit of Showbiz — 2010-11
A Question of Sex (one-act play) — 2022-23
A Streetcar Named Desire — 2012-13
A Texas Tragedy — 2004-05, 2019-20
Adaptions — 1982-83
Agatha Christi Made Me Do It — 1977-78, 2000-01
Agatha Christi Tackles Texas — 2006-07
All the King's Men — 1990-91
An Evening With Todd — 1974-75
Angel Street — 2010-11
Anne of Green Gables — 2002-03, 2012-13
Annie — 1995-96, 2000-01, 2011-12
Annie Get Your Gun — 1981-82, 2003-04
Annie Warbucks — 2006-07
Anniversary Waltz — 1975-76
Anything Goes — 1978-79, 1995-96
The Apple Tree — 1971-72
Arsenic and Old Lace — 2011-12, 2017-18

B

Barefoot in the Park — 1972-73, 1991-92, 2017-18
Be My Baby — 2008-09
The Bear and the Moon — 1973-74
Beau Jest — 1996-97
Bedroom Farce — 1986-87
Bell Book & Candle — 2008-09
Belle of Amherst — 1990-91
Bells Are Ringing — 2013-14
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever — 2012-13, 2013-14, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2023-24
Best of Friends — 1997-98
Blithe Spirit — 1981-82
Born Yesterday — 1990-91
The Boy Friend — 2009-10
The Boy Who Led Santa Claus — 1988-89
Bremen Town Musicians — 1987-88
Brigadoon— 1991-92, 1999-2000
Bus Stop — 1988-89
Butterflies Are Free — 1973-74, 1995-96
Bye Bye Birdie — 2003-04, 2014-15

C

Cabaret — 1993-94
Cactus Flower — 1984-85
Camelot — 1992-93
Carousel — 1988-89
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — 1987-88
The Cemetery Club — 2004-05
The Chalk Garden — 1993-94, 2010-11
Christmas Belles — 2011-12
Christmas Confusion — 1983-84, 1987-88
Christmas Plays — 1984-85, 1985-86
Come Back Little Sheba — 1982-83
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean — 1984-85
Confusion in the Soda Shop — 1992-93
Crimes of the Heart — 1985-86
Criminal Hearts — 1995-96
Curious Savage — 1978-79, 2018-19

D

Da  — 1991-92
Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will? — 1990-91, 1994-95, 2013-14
Dairy of Anne Frank — 2008-09
Dearly Beloved — 2010-11
Dirty Work at the Crossroads — 1971-72, 1989-90, 1991-92
The Dixie Swim Club — 2016-2017
Don't Drink the Water — 1973-74
Doublewide, Texas — 2016-17
A Doublewide, Texas Christmas — 2018-19
Dracula — 1992-93

E

East Texas Remembers — 1990-91, 1997-98
East Texas Remembers World War II — 1992-93, 1994-95
East Texas Talks — 2008-09
Elephant Man — 1985-86
Enter Laughing — 1980-81, 1993-94
The Exact Center of the Universe — 2000-01
The Exchange — 1973-74

F

Fabulous 40 Musical Revue — 2001-02
The Fantastics — 1972-73, 2001-02
Fiddler on the Roof — 1990-91, 2002-03
Finding Christmas — 2017-18, 2019-20
The Foreigner — 1986-87, 1992-93, 2014-15
Forever Plaid — 2001-02, 2003-04
Forty Carats — 2006-07
The Four Poster — 1994-95
Foxfire — 1987-88
Frankenstein  — 1993-94
Frankenstein's Centerfold — 1987-88
Frontier Photographer — 1992-93

G

Gaslight — 1984-85
Getting Legit — 2022-23

The Glass Menagerie — 2023-24
Grace & Glorie — 1997-98
Greater Tuna — 1985-86, 2014-15
The Green Flag — 1975-76
Guys & Dolls — 1987-88, 1998-99, 2004-05

H

Hansel & Gretel — 1994-95
Happy Birthday — 1975-76
Harvey — 1974-75, 1995-96, 2010-11
The Heiress — 1979-80, 2011-12
Hello, Dolly — 1999-2000, 2014-15
Hiding Addison — 2016-17, 2023-24
The Hostage — 1977-78
How to Eat Like a Child — 2009-10

I

I Do, I Do — 1979-80, 2002-03
I Hate Hamlet — 1992-93, 2014-15
I Never Sang for my Father — 2003-04, 2007-08, 2011-12
In Sickness & in Health — 1999-2000
Inspecting Carol — 1994-95, 1998-99
The Invisible Man — 1981-82
It Ain't Over Til the Alligator Sings — 1988-89

J

Jack and the Magic Bean Stalk — 1990-91
Jest a Second — 1997-98
John Loves Mary — 2005-06
Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — 1993-94, 2007-08
Junior Miss — 1978-79

K

The King and I — 1983-84, 1997-98, 2004-05
Kiss Me Kate — 1977-78, 1993-94, 2008-09

L

Landslide — 1984-85, 1993-94
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers — 1978-79
Last Round Up of the Guacamole Queens — 2015-16
Laura — 1980-81
Lend Me a Tenor — 1991-92, 1994-95
Lettice & Lovage — 1996-97
Lily Dale — 1991-92
Little Foxes — 2018-19
Lone Star Laundry and Bourbon — 1983-84
Look Homeward, Angel — 1983-84
Love Letters — 1992-93
Love Texas Style — 1991-92
Love, Loss and What I Wore — 2012-13
Love, Sex & the IRS — 1995-96, 2013-14
Lovers and Other Strangers — 1983-84
Lu Ann Hampton, Laverly Oberlander — 1988-89
The Lucky Spot — 1992-93

M

Mame — 2006-07
Man of La Mancha — 2006-07
The Man Who Came to Dinner — 1979-80
Mary, Mary — 1971-72, 1978-79, 2022-23
Matilda The Musical — 2018-19
Merry Christmas Darlings — 2013-14
Miracle Worker — 1972-73
The Miracle Worker — 2009-10
Miss Firecracker Contest — 1985-86
Mister Roberts — 1989-90, 2005-06, 2016-17
Mornings at Seven — 1982-83, 2002-03, 2012-13
Mrs. McThing — 1996-97
Much Ado About Nothing — 2022-23
The Music Man — 1984-85, 1994-95, 2001-02
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 — 1998-99, 2001-02
Musical Revue — 2015-16
My Darling Daughter — 1981-82
My Fair Lady — 1989-90, 2000-01
My Sister Eileen — 1975-76
My Three Angels — 1974-75, 2015-16

N

The Nerd — 1989-90
Never Too Late — 1979-80, 2022-23
Night of the Iguana — 1986-87
No Time for Sergeants — 1990-91, 2015-16
Noah — 2011-12
Noises Off — 1987-88
The Norman Conquests — 1982-83
Nunsense — 2000-01, 2010-11, 2017-18
Nunsense II  — 2002-03, 2011-12, 2019-20

O

The Octette Bridge Club — 2004-05
The Odd Couple — 1973-74, 1999-2000
Oh! Kay! — 1982-83
Oklahoma — 1980-81, 2009-10
Oliver! — 1994-95, 1999-2000, 2008-09
On Borrowed Time — 1992-93, 2011-12
On Golden Pond — 1981-82, 1995-96, 2007-08, 2017-18
Once Upon a Mattress — 1972-73, 1998-99
Our Town — 2006-07, 2016-17

P

The Passion of Dracula — 1994-95, 1998-99, 2009-10, 2013-14
Pearl Harbor Christmas — 1989-90
Petticoat Flag — 1977-78
The Philadelphia Story — 2007-08
Picnic — 1980-81, 2009-10
Pillow Talk — 2009-10
Play It Again, Sam — 1978-79

The Play That Goes Wrong — 2023-24
Plaza Suite — 1978-79
The Prince and the Showgirl — 1984-85
The Princess and the Pea — 1994-95
The Prisoner of Second Avenue — 1974-75, 2000-01
Pump Boys & Dinettes — 2005-06, 2007-08

Q

Quilters — 2005-06

R

The Rainmaker — 1981-82, 2001-02, 2013-14
Rapunzel — 1992-93
Red Riding Hood — 1988-89
The Red Velvet Cake War — 2013-14
Rex's Exes — 2014-15
The Runner Stumbles — 1978-79

S

Same Time Next Year — 1988-89

Schoolhouse Rock Live! — 2022-23
Seasons Greetings — 1985-86
The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild — 1977-78, 1998-99, 2017-18
The Secret Garden — 2004-05
Send Me No Flowers — 1974-75, 2005-06
Seussical — 2005-06
Seussical JR — 2017-18
She Loves Me — 2003-04
Showboat — 1996-97
Showcase Theatre — 2012-13, 2014-15
Smoke on the Mountain — 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2013-14, 2023-24
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — 1998-99
Social Security — 1988-89
Sorrows of Stephen — 1983-84
The Sound of Music — 1985-86, 1997-98, 2010-11
South Pacific — 1979-80, 1997-98, 2012-13
Southern Hospitality — 2012-13
The Stars Come Out — 2006-07
Steel Magnolias — 1989-90, 2015-16
Stories My Grandmother Told Me — 2014-15
Sword & the Stone — 1992-93
Sylvia — 1996-97, 2002-03

T

Talking Pictures — 2018-19
Talking With ... — 1986-87, 1987-88, 2002-03, 2017-18
Teahouse of the August Moon — 1982-83, 2018-19
Texas Tacky — 1987-88
Three Children's Plays — 1974-75
Thurber Carnival — 1972-73
Tom Jones — 2007-08
The Traveling Lady — 1986-87, 1994-95, 2014-15
Tribute — 1983-84
Trifles (one-act play) — 2022-23
Two Christmas Plays — 1982-83

U

Uncle Horse — 2015-16
The Uninvited — 1995-96

V

Visit to a Small Planet — 1980-81

W

What We Need — 2019-20
Where the Sidewalk Ends — 1992-93
Whispering Pines — 2015-16
Willy Wonka — 2007-08, 2015-16
The Wizard of Oz — 1996-97, 2001-02, 2013-14, 2016-17
The Women — 2003-04
Women on Fire — 2004-05

Y

York Nativity — 1990-91
Yes, We Deliver — 2018-19, 2023-24
You Can't Take it With You — 1973-74, 2008-09

2023-24
Yes, We Deliver
Smoke on the Mountain
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Glass Menagerie
The Play That Goes Wrong
Hiding Addison

Children's Summer Musical

2022-23
Much Ado About Nothing
Never Too Late
A Christmas Special
Getting Legit
Two One-Act Plays: Trifles & A Question of Sex
Mary, Mary

Schoolhouse Rock LIve!

2021-22
Spoon River Anthology
NOTE: No other plays this season due to COVID-19

2020-21
NOTE: All plays cancelled due to COVID-19

2019–20
Nunsense II—The Second Coming
What We Need
Finding Christmas
A Texas Tragedy
Much Ado About Nothing — postponed due to COVID-19
Never Too Late — postponed due to COVID-19
Summer Musical — cancelled due to COVID-19

2018-19
The Curious Savage
Yes, We Deliver
A Doublewide, Texas Christmas
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Little Foxes
Talking Pictures
Matilda The Musical

2017–18
Nunsense
Arsenic and Old Lace
Finding Christmas
Barefoot in the Park
On Golden Pond
The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild
Seussical JR.
Talking With ...

2016–17
1776
Hiding Addison
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Our Town
Doublewide, Texas
Mister Roberts 
The Wizard of Oz
The Dixie Swim Club

2015–16 
Last Round Up of the Guacamole Queens
No Time for Sergeants
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 
Uncle Horse
Musical Revue
Steel Magnolias
My Three Angels
Willy Wonka 
Whispering Pines

2014–15
Hello, Dolly
I Hate Hamlet
Greater Tuna
Rex's Exes
Stories My Grandmother Told Me 
The Traveling Lady
The Foreigner
Bye Bye Birdie
Showcase Theatre

2013–14
The Red Velvet Cake War
The Passion of Dracula
Smoke on the Mountain
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Bells Are Ringing
Love, Sex & the IRS
The Rainmaker
Merry Christmas Darlings 
The Wizard of Oz

2012–13
South Pacific
Southern Hospitality
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Mornings at Seven
Love, Loss and What I Wore 
A Streetcar Named Desire
Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will? 
Anne of Green Gables
Showcase Theatre

2011–12
Arsenic and Old Lace
Nunsense II
I Never Sang for my Father 
Christmas Belles
On Borrowed Time
Noah 
The Heiress
Annie 

2010–11
Dearly Beloved
Harvey
Nunsense
The Chalk Garden
Angel Street
The Sound of Music 
A Little Bit of Showbiz

2009–10
Pillow Talk
The Passion of Dracula 
Oklahoma! 
Picnic 
The Miracle Worker
The Boy Friend
How to Eat Like a Child

2008–09
Bell Book & Candle
You Can't Take it With You 
Kiss Me Kate
East Texas Talks
Dairy of Anne Frank  
Be My Baby
Oliver!   

2007–08 
I Never Sang for my Father
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Pump Boys & Dinettes
The Philadelphia Story
On Golden Pond
Tom Jones
Willy Wonka

2006–07
Agatha Christi Tackles Texas
Mame
Forty Carats 
Man of La Mancha
The Stars Come Out
Our Town 
Annie Warbucks

2005–06
Quilters 
John Loves Mary 
Send Me No Flowers
Pump Boys & Dinettes
Mister Roberts
Seussical 

2004–05
The Secret Garden 
The Octette Bridge Club
Guys & Dolls 
A Texas Tragedy
The Cemetery Club
The King and I  
Women on Fire

2003–04
Annie Get Your Gun
I Never Sang for my Father 
The Women
Forever Plaid 
She Loves Me
Bye Bye Birdie

2002–03
Fiddler on the Roof 
Sylvia  
I Do, I Do 
Mornings at Seven
Nunsense II - The Second Coming  
Anne of Green Gables 
Talking With

2001–02
The Music Man
Forever Plaid
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
The Rainmaker
Fabulous 40 Musical Revue
The Fantastics
The Wizard of Oz
Smoke on the Mountain

2000–01
1776  
The Exact Center of the Universe
Nunsense
My Fair Lady
The Prisoner of Second Avenue 
Annie   
Agatha Christi Made Me Do It

1999–2000
Hello, Dolly
In Sickness & in Health
Brigadoon
The Odd Couple 
Oliver! 
Smoke on the Mountain

1998–99 
The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild
The Passion of Dracula
Inspecting Carol 
Guys & Dolls 
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 
Once Upon a Mattress
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1997–98
Jest a Second
South Pacific
Grace & Glorie
The King and I
East Texas Remembers
Best of Friends
The Sound of Music 

1996–97
Beau Jest 
Mrs. McThing
A Christmas Carol 
Showboat 
Slyvia
Lettice & Lovage
The Wizard of Oz

1995–96
Love, Sex & the IRS
Butterflies Are Free
The Uninvited
On Golden Pond
Anything Goes
Harvey
Criminal Hearts
Annie    

1994–95 
Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will?
The Passion of Dracula
Inspecting Carol
The Music Man
Hansel & Gretel
The Princess and the Pea
Traveling Lady
The Four Poster
Lend Me a Tenor
East Texas Remembers World War II 
Oliver!  

1993–94
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Frankenstein
A Christmas Carol 
Kiss Me Kate
The Chalk Garden
Enter Laughing 
Landslide
Cabaret  

1992–93
The Foreigner
Dracula
On Borrowed Time 
Camelot 
Rapunzel
Sword & the Stone
East Texas Remembers World War II 
The Lucky Spot
Frontier Photographer
I Hate Hamlet 
Confusion in the Soda shop 
Where the Sidewalk Ends 
Love Letters 

1991–92
Lily Dale
Da
Brigadoon
Barefoot in the Park
Love Texas Style
Lend Me a Tenor
Dirty Work at the Crossroads

1990–91
Born Yesterday
Jack and the Magic Bean Stalk
All the King's Men
A Christmas Carol
York Nativity
Fiddler on the Roof 
Belle of Amherst
East Texas Remembers
Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will?
No Time for Sergeants

1989–90
The Nerd
Pearl Harbor Christmas
A Christmas Carol
My Fair Lady 
Steel Magnolias
Mister Roberts
Dirty Work at the Crossroads

1988–89
Social Security
Lu Ann Hampton, Laverly Oberlander
The Boy Who Led Santa Claus
Red Riding Hood 
Same Time Next Year
Bus Stop
Carousel 
It Ain't Over Til the Alligator Sings

1987–88
Texas Tacky
Foxfire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Bremen Town Musicians
Christmas Confusion
Guys & Dolls
Noises Off
Frankenstein's Centerfold
Talking With

1986–87
The Foreigner
Bedroom Farce
1776
Traveling Lady
Night of the Iguana
Talking With

1985–86
Greater Tuna
Seasons Greetings
Christmas Plays
The Sound of Music
Elephant Man
Crimes of the Heart
Miss Firecracker Contest

1984–85
Cactus Flower
The Prince and the Showgirl 
Gaslight
Christmas Plays
The Music Man
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean
Landslide

1983–84
Lovers and Other Strangers
Look Homeward, Angel 
Christmas Confusion
The King and I  
Sorrows of Stephen
Tribute
Lone Star — Laundry and Bourbon

1982–83
Teahouse of the August Moon
Come Back Little Sheba
Mornings at Seven
Oh! Kay!  
Two Christmas Plays
The Norman Conquests
Adaptions

1981–82 
The Rainmaker
On Golden Pond 
Blithe Spirit
Annie Get Your Gun
My Darling Daughter
The Invisible Man

1980–81
Picnic
Laura
Enter Laughing
Oklahoma
Visit to a Small Planet

1979–80
Never Too Late
The Heiress
The Man Who Came to Dinner
South Pacific
I Do, I Do

1978–79
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Mary, Mary
Curious Savage
Plaza Suite
Play It Again, Sam
Anything Goes
Junior Miss
The Runner Stumbles

1977–78
The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild
Kiss Me Kate
Petticoat Flag
Agatha Christi Made Me Do It
The Hostage

1975–76
My Sister Eileen
Anniversary Waltz
The Green Flag
Happy Birthday  

1974–75 
An Evening With Todd
Send Me No Flowers
Prisoner of Second Avenue
My Three Angels
Three Children's Plays
Harvey 

1973–74 
Don't Drink the Water
The Bear and the Moon
The Odd Couple
You Can't Take it With You
Butterflies Are Free 
A Christmas Carol  
The Exchange

1972–73
The Fantastics
Barefoot in the Park
Miracle Worker 
Once Upon a Mattress
Thurber Carnival 

1971–72
Mary, Mary 
Dirty Work at the Crossroads
The Apple Tree