With the largest subscription base of any community theatre in the area (3,000+), RLT serves more than 40,000 people with shows each season.

[citation needed] A total of 10 to 11 shows are produced annually, professionally supported by complete on-site costume and scene shops.

Then, civic leader Cantey Venable Sutton started the Works Progress Administration construction of the main theatre, amphitheatre, and Rose Garden.

RLT's annual performance awards, given each June, have been called "Canteys" in her honor for a number of decades.

During the first six months of the program, more than 1,000 students had the opportunity to experience the theatrical arts either through workshops, in-classroom residencies or special performances in schools that otherwise would not have been possible.