The pavilion is the signature feature of the H Street Theatre Project, which renovated almost the entire block.

Established as summer stock, the new theatre venues primarily housed light operas and operettas, produced in the round, under a circus-style big top.

It lowered its canvas tent for the last time, returning the following year in this state-of-the-art complex, which offers new technology improvements, such as an expanded lighting grid and a variable-level turntable stage.

[1] The structure consists of hard-sided walls with a soft covering, copying its silhouette from the old circus tent.

However, on November 10, 2019, Broadway Sacramento and Dignity Health issued a joint statement that the merger would no longer move forward following growing concerns from the LGBTQ community, and the theatre returned to its original name.