The complex includes three performance spaces: The Studio, The Arch and The Bar, and is home to the Holden Street Theatre Company.

Built in the Norman style the limestone and brick church was designed by Henry Stuckey.

Bishop Augustus Short laid the foundation stone in 1849,[3] and the church that was opened on 23 June 1850.

[6][7] During the later part of the 20th century the church, hall and rectory became disused, until the site was taken on by the City of Charles Sturt and became a space for lease.

[8] In 2002 the church and hall were leased by Weslo Holdings under guidance of artistic director Martha Lott to be used as a theatre venue, while the Nature Foundation SA took over the rectory as its head offices.

She then moved to Sydney and started working in retail and business management for nearly five years before returning to Adelaide.

It is a Broadway play by New York writer Matthew Lombardo inspired by an incident which occurred during mid-20th century American stage and film actress Tallulah Bankhead's last movie role, playing a religious fanatic in the 1965 horror film Die!

The play is directed by Peter Goers, who in 2004 co-directed the first show at the theatre, California Suite by Neil Simon.