Its first full-length performance was Lady Windermere's Fan at the Phineas Davis School Auditorium on December 14, 1933.

After a lease-purchase agreement was signed in July 1953, the theatre gained title to the building seven years ahead of schedule in May 1956.

[9] A 7,000-square-foot (650 m2) addition to the theatre was completed in 1997, after more than $1 million was raised under the leadership of Henry Leader, brother of former Pennsylvania governor George M.

[4][10] According to the executive director, Lyn Bergdoll, the theatre was renamed after its street in mid-2016 due to a migration of the former name's meaning.

[7] The theatre's most enduring fundraiser has been an annual food stand at the York Fair, at which steak sandwiches are sold.