It is typical for the theater to stage large-scale and dramatically tense performances of the form, as well as talk about significant personalities of history and culture of its time.

Smiļģis’ first assistants were motion consultant Felicita Ertnere (1891-1975), stage designer Jānis Muncis (1886-1955) and musical director Burhards Sosārs (1890-1953).

Eduards Smiļģis chose the repertoire for theater of both the ambitious works of Latvian authors - Rainis, Aspazija, Anna Brigadere, Andrejs Upītis and other works of the world classics - plays by William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Karl Goldon, as well as dramatizing the latest generation of dramatists in Europe.

[4] In 1959 the architect Marta Staņa (1913-1972) won a competition organized by Smiļģis and created a new building project located at Brīvības Street 75, Riga, Latvia.

The lobby of the dark bricks contrasts with the bright concrete and glass surfaces on the wide front floor.