The Biondo brothers, Andrea, Eugenio and Luigi, were wealthy entrepreneurs and a lawyer and owned a prominent publishing house in Palermo.

Andrea, the lawyer commissioned the design from engineer Nicolò Mineo, who collaborated with Giacomo Nicolai and Antonio Lo Bianco.

On 15 October 1903 it was inaugurated by the theater company of Ermete Novelli, performing the play of Papà Lebonnard by Jean Aicard.

It was followed by plays such as Il burbero benefico of Goldoni, The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, and Luigi XI by Jean-François Delavigne.

The theater remained in the Biondo family till 1980s, when a larger group, including the provincial and municipal government established a collaborative ownership.