La Boite is based at Brisbane's Roundhouse Theatre, Australia's first purpose-built theatre-in-the-round, located in Kelvin Grove .

La Boite was founded in 1925, under the direction of British teacher of speech and drama Barbara Sisley and English literature professor Jeremiah Joseph Stable.

After Sisley's death, the Brisbane Repertory Theatre Society survived from 1946 through to 1956 under Tom Stephens, Alex Foster, Cecil Carson and Gwen MacMinn.

La Boite's intimate, 70-seat space attracted a new audiences, as well as a new directors and actors, including Jane Atkins, Eileen Beatson, Ian Thomson, Barry Otto, John Stanton and Muriel Watson.

[5] Blocksidge established her eventual aim to make La Boite a professional theatre company through the establishment in 1973 of the first professional 'theatre-in-education' team in Queensland [citation needed], the Early Childhood Drama Project (ECDP), and the 1976 appointment of La Boite's first salaried Artistic Director, Rick Billinghurst.

The early 1980s was a buoyant time for La Boite and for the pro-am or professional community theatre companies funded by the Australia Council.

The following years were considered financially trying for La Boite, but a huge effort by the Council and "resident directors" Mike Bridges and Mary Hickson kept the company and theatre afloat.

[6] By 1991, the stress of running such a vibrant pro-am theatre company proved too much [citation needed] and David Bell took over as artistic director later in that year.

[7] Sean Mee had been one of Brisbane's leading actors for many years [citation needed] and he had started his career at La Boite with the Early Childhood Drama Project in the 1980s.