Opened in 1936 to the design of Arne Jacobsen, the building is considered one of his most important architectural works and exemplar of Danish functionalism.

The theatre is part of a scheme also including the adjoining Bellevue Beach and residential block and was, at the time, seen as a manifestation of "the dream of the modern lifestyle".

[1] In the early 1930s, Arne Jacobsen won a competition for a masterplan for the Bellevue area in Klampenborg, Gentofte Municipality, shortly after opening his own architectural office in 1930.

It closed a few seasons later, then operating as a cinema until 1980, when it was reopened as a theatre and film centre by Jes Kølpin.

[2] The building is considered one of the most important architectural work by Arne Jacobsen, exemplar of early Danish functionalism.