The Batumi Summer Theater was opened in 1847 and designed by architects Kaho Javakhishvili (who also designed the Adjara Museum) and Bogdan Kirakosyan (who designed a number of DKs in Georgia and Ukraine and was involved in the reconstruction of Red Square). The theater consisted of columns, with walls decorated with carved patterns in the front and back, and the space between the columns on the sides of the audience area was covered with tarpaulin (a heavy fabric). The space inside was designed to accommodate 800 seats.

In the following year, 1948, the architects received an award from the Union of Architects of the USSR for the design of the Summer Theater.

During the Soviet Union period, the theater continued to be an important center of culture and art. For example, the theater participated in the film "Twelve Chairs" (released in 1971). In this building, Ostap Bender punishes a former leader of the nobility for disobedience.

The wooden theater lived for 54 years. In 2001, under strange circumstances, a fire occurred, destroying an important historical building. In place of the theater, at the initiative of the former head of Adjara, Aslan Abashidze, a... Pyramid was erected. The Pyramid of Hunger (named after the engineer) "accumulated energy and could heal."

In 2004, with a change of regional leadership, the pyramid was dismantled, and it was decided to restore the Summer Theater in its place, and a tender was announced. The matter stalled.

Only at the beginning of 2012 did the situation start to move. Architect Gocha Garuchava presented a new project for the Summer Theater. The work was planned to be completed in a few months, before the start of the tourist season, but it was only completed in August 2013.

Externally, the building really resembles the old one, but comparing it up close, the buildings are different in all details. The main differences are the abandonment of columns and open spaces on the sides of the seats. However, despite this change, the theater retained its name.