[2] By 1888 the wooden pavilion was so worn down that it was demolished and a new building in brick, with a large stage and an auditorium with balconies, was built in its place.

The new theatre was open all year round and featured a repertoire of farces, Comédies en vaudeville and revues.

The theatre changed its name to Frederiksberg Teater in 1904 and again in 1914 to Alexandrateatret after Christian IX's eldest daughter.

Its profile gradually changed in a more serious and artistically ambitious direction with plays by George Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, Strindberg and Frank Wedekind.

[1] The actress Betty Nansen, who had just returned to Denmark after a failed attempt to make it as a film star in America, took over the theatre in 1917, naming it after herself.