The history of the theatral movement began 160 years ago and came out of the wish of affirmation of the national consciousness and freedom and the huge energy of the „Thallia’s Partisans” who always wished to accomplish their ideals of good and beauty.
The first document speaking about a theatral representation is written on the 10-th of May 1841 and is called „Ephemerides Five Diarum ven Convetus Lugossiensis” and it apeaks about a theatral event organized by school children.
In January and February 1847 „The Romanian Society of Songs and Theatre” having Iosif Farcas as chairman and made up of some professional actors show the first theatre plays in Romanian. As the newspapers of that time wrote the shows in Romanian were much „visited”.
In January 1846 the craftsmen of Lugoj with the soap maker Vasile Brediceanu played a satire intitled „The Proud Shoe Maker Wife” by Iuliu Neagoe. This theatral company helped a lot, in 1851, the widows and the orphans of the 1848 Revolution. The „Gazette of Transilvania” spoke a lot about this fonds collected in Brasov.
During the 1880’s G. A. Petculescu’s theatral company plays in Lugoj, having some interruptions caused by long tours in Transilvania. Its representations had a great succes.
The first decade of our century meant an important revigoration for the Romanian theatre in Lugoj, organized by the sub-company of the „Romanian Society for Romanian Theatre Fonds”.
After the First World War many companies of amateur theatre had a fruitful activity in Lugoj encouraging and promoting the classical Romanian theatral creations. We can mention here the fact that „Thallia-Romanian Theatre Company” had published some collections of short plays. In 10 years they could publish about 300 plays.
In 1963 the Popular Theatre of Lugoj was created and it had a permanent season and it was the first company in the Banat area. The company’s activity becomes richer and richer by the representation of important Romanian and universal plays individualized by a great talents: „Montserrat” by E. Rables, „Don’t build a Staircase in Your Shop” by E. Barbu, „The Fires” by Magda Isanos and E. Camilar, „Broadway Melody 492” by Jura Soyfer. All of them made a great impression on the audience.
Years of hard work followed with well known stage directors from Timisoara, Arad, Pitesti, Bucharest: Dan Radu Ionescu, Ion Cojar, Ioan Taub, Ioan Ieremia, Ştefan Darida, Horia Ionescu, Alexa Visarion, Ştefan Iordănescu, Val Dobrin, Laurian Oniga, Emilia Jivanov, Dumitru Popescu,Ion-Ardeal Ieremia, Anca Maria Colţeanu etc).
The actors of Lugoj offered to its public important Romanian and  universal plays: „Titanic Valse” by Tudor Musatescu, „The Man Who Could See the Death” by V. Eftimiu, „The Merry Wives of Windsor” by W. Shakespeare, „Moonlightening” by T. Mazilu, “About Happiness” by D. Solomon, “Tsar Ivan…” by M. Bulgakov, “Il Servitore di due padroni” by C. Goldoni, “The Mad Lamb” by A. Baranga, “Mrs. Minister” by B. Nusici, “La Mandragore” by N. Machiavelli, “ Le Medecin malgre lui” by Moliere, “Un chapeau de paille D’Italie” by E. Labiche, “Mimosa Hotel” by P. Chessnault, “The Love Shop” by T. Mazilu, “Bodas de Sangre” by F. G. Lorca, “Kabale und Liebe” by Fr. Schiller, “Menajeria de sticla” de T. Williams, “Inspectorul de politie” de J.B. Priestley, “Generali in fuste” de J. Anouilh s.a.
These important plays were represented in Lugoj, in the country and abroad: Serbia in 1969 and beginning with 1992 permanent cultural theatric exchange, in Czechoslovakia at the 20-th Jubilees Festival “Jirasek” in Hronov, London in 1982 in the Amateur Theatre Week, together with companies from Sweden, Hungary and Great Britain, 1991 a cultural exchange with “Les baladins D’Eon” from Tonnerre, France, 1997 and 2004 in Bekescsaba and Szekszard, Hungary, 2001 and 2003 cultural exchange with theatres of Korinth region, Greece, 2004 in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.