[2] It played an important pioneering role in the history of modern theater in Turkey, as the first professional theater company in the Ottoman Empire, and the stage of the first pioneer generation of indigenous actors in the Ottoman Empire.
The Arevelian Tatron was founded by Arakel Altunduryan.
He was one of the Armenian pioneer actors who had been educated in acting in Venice in Italy, and who returned with the ambition to practice the art form of modern theater in the Ottoman Empire, where it was only practiced by foreign actors in the Naum Theatre.
It was founded during the tanzimat era, when the Ottoman society was going through a period of reform and modernization, which made authorities benevolent toward such requests.
The company was composed by Christian Armenian, who formed the pioneer generation of the first indigenous Ottoman actors: Acemyan, S., Agavni Papazyan, Bedros Magakyan, Beşiktaşlıyan, David Triyans, Hovannes Acemyan, Kalus Dernogasyan, Licezi, Osep Çeraz, Romanos Sedefçiyan, Serope Benliyan, Mardiros Mmakyan, Terzyanı T; the most famous perhaps being Agop Vartovyan, later known as Güllü Agop, who joined the company in 1862.