When the old theatre was destroyed during the Great Fire of Turku in 1827, there was a need of a new theater house.

The theatre has been located in its present building since 1839, when it was opened by a local amateur society with the play Gubben i Bergsbygden the 21 January 1839.

[3] In 1843, concerts by Johanna von Schoultz and Jenny Lind where both performed on its stage.

The most notable of these were the company of Pierre Deland, which visited the theatre regularly from 1840 to 1861, as well as the so called "Finnish Company" of Edvard Stjernström, which enjoyed theatre monopoly in Southern Finland in 1850-53.

[5] In the 1870s and 1880s, the famed Swedish company of Thérèse Elfforss frequnelty visited the theatre.