The group included Danny DeVito, Judd Hirsch, Sally Kirkland and Ron Leibman, who performed exclusively in the said theater, located on South Street in Philadelphia.
In 1981, the founding partners of TLA Entertainment Group (Raymond Murray, Claire Brown-Kohler, Alex Roberts and Roman Czenchtuch) met and subsequently ran the theater.
In addition, for four of those six years, the partners ran a small, first-run art house, the Roxy Screening Room, also located in Center City, Philadelphia.
In 1994, TLA Entertainment Group President Raymond Murray started the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
In order to better fund these events, in August 2001 TLA Entertainment Group spun them off and created the non-profit Philadelphia Film Society.
It is focused on the acquisition of distribution rights of international, independent, and gay and lesbian films to theaters and on DVD and VHS.