Theatre-On-the Wharf is located in the former port construction on the Cape daves in Walsh Bay. Here in 1829 he built the first Wharf, which was named "Marina Pitman". A century and a half later, in 1979, the Sydney Theatre Company was looking for a space to rent. It was then that Elizabeth butcher, manages the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, found an abandoned shipyard in Walsh Bay and offered to refurbish them and make a residence Company. Her proposal was supported by the government.

When the appointed project architect Vivian Fraser in 1984 started to work, the main question was which end of the pier to have the theater building. Government architects, having conducted a special study, has proposed to build it in that part of the pier, which overlooks the road. But Fraser insisted that, for aesthetic reasons, theatre building must be placed on jutting out into the sea end of the pier. Her arguments were supported, and artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company later said it this way: "I liked the idea that every time you come here to see the play, as if you go on a journey".

Today the Theatre on the Pier consists of two halls at 544. Along the 200-meter wooden flooring leading from the street to the theater, there is the poster of the Sydney Theatre Company, who can tell visitors the story. The huge Windows of the theatre, facing the famous harbour bridge and the waters of Sydney Harbour. With East and West balconies of a local restaurant overlooking Sydney's Luna Park and the skyline of the residential area of North Shore.