At this point, theater and music was immensely popular in the colony and frequented by most free people of all races and classes, and public theaters existed in not only Cap-Francais but also in smaller towns such as the theaters of Mlle Marthe and Mlle Francheville in Saint-Marc (1769–1802), Monsieur Passete in Leogane (1760s) and Monsieur Charpentier in Les Cayes (1765–88), and it was considered necessary to have one in the new capital city.
The theater offered regular performances of drama, opera and music concerts until the Haitian Revolution of 1791, and became an important cultural center.
The theater employed a stock company of eight actors, eight actresses, eleven musicians, a prompter, a stage manager, a decorator, a tailor, a hairdresser, four porters and a clerk.
Francois Mesplete was succeeded in 1784 by Monsieur Acquaire, whose wife the singer-actress Madame Acquaire (previously Mlle Babet) had been a director of the local amateur theater in Gonaive, are known as the mentor of the famous Minette et Lise.
After the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution, Acquaire resigned his position as director to Monsieur Blainville and joined his wife in France.