The exterior was not dissimilar from the other buildings around the square, except for the two balconies over the entrance, which belonged to the boxes of the governor and the military intendent of the colony.
Theater was very popular in the colony, and the Comedie du Cap was one of the city's most prominent places of social life.
It hosted about 2000 plays, operas and concerts each year, and public balls twice a weeks, and it was also rented for private functions.
During the incident, most of the city was burnt and the white population took refuge in the ships of the harbour, and eyewitnesses describes scenes in which the rebels put on the costume from the Comédie du Cap.
Clerville, who all became a part of the Theatre de la Rue Saint Pierre of New Orleans, all came from the Comédie du Cap.