The theater company Plays and Players bought the building in 1922 and has performed there ever since.

[2] Plays & Players began in 1911 as a social club devoted to expanding and developing new theater experiences for and by its membership.

Shelton in an effort to produce "American plays of ideas," an underrepresented genre at the time.

Plays & Players theater company has produced notable performances, including the world premiere of the acclaimed Broadway play "Stalag 17" in 1949, and a childhood performance by actor Kevin Bacon in Member of the Wedding in 1974.

On March 14, 1973, Plays & Players Theatre was entered in the National Register of Historic Places.