[1] The building, which also houses the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera, is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments.

[3] Under his leadership, the theatre has continued Harag's tradition of innovation, based on a repertoire that includes classic masterpieces as well as contemporary plays.

This has been largely due to international co-productions and collaborations with world-renowned professionals: directors such as Vlad Mugur, Silviu Purcărete, Andrei Șerban, Mihai Măniuţiu, Victor Ioan Frunză, Mathias Langhoff, David Zinder,[4] Dragoş Galgoţiu,[5] Patrick Le Mauff, Elie Malka, Dominique Serrand, Michal Docekal and Robert Woodruff; set and costume designers such as Andrei Both,[6] Csaba Antal, Doina Levintza, Lia Manţoc, Martin Chocholousek, Dragos Buhagiar, and Helmut Stürmer; and composers such as Vasile Șirli and Iosif Herțea.

In 1993, Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Prima Donna, directed by Gábor Tompa, won the Best Foreign Performance of the Year Award when it toured England; it also went to Finland, France, the Republic of Moldova and Hungary.

In 2007, Tompa's production of András Visky's Long Friday was presented at the 16th Festival of the Union of the Theatres of Europe in Turin.