The Shreveport Little Theatre is committed to produce a broad variety of quality, live theatre with predominantly volunteer participation from the community, with the guidance of trained artistic and managerial leadership, for the entertainment, enlightenment, and growth of the audience and the volunteer participants, and to increase community awareness of and pride in Shreveport Little Theatre The Shreveport Little Theatre & Academy celebrates its 89th consecutive season in 2010-2011. Shreveport Little Theatre, founded in 1922, is possibly the oldest CONTINUOUSLY producing community theater in America, as the theatre produced without interruption throughout the Great Depression and World War II, and after two fires, a longevity unprecedented in contemporary community theatre. From the first performance in the City Hall Auditorium in 1922, The Shreveport Little Theatre staged productions in the Jewish Synagogue, the Grand Opera House, the Auditorium of the Woman's Department Club until we built our own home and opened on March 14, 1927 at 812 Margaret Place.