HISTORY
Husets Teater was founded in 1975 in the inner of Copenhagen at the fourth floor in “Huset i Magstræde” - wherefrom the name comes. In 1995 the theatre moved to its present location on Halmtorvet at Vesterbro and overtook the offices of the departed Fiolteatret in a front house to the block “Copenhagen Meatpacking District“. Here the theatre has had a central location in a rapidly growing cultural area. Husets Teater has the status as a small city theatre with support from the Copenhagen municipality and now contains two scenes. The large scene has 121 numbered seats and the smaller scene, OverHuset, has up to 70 not numbered seats.

During the first years Husets Teater presented a number of essential guest performances from, for instance, Sweden and Italy with new political inspired groups. Also the Danish Natholdet marked the place as different in line with, among others, Saltlageret; political theatre within the framework of the system. From the middle of the 1980th the theatre turned more orientated towards drama with, for instance, Baal by Brecht and the controversial play The Litter, the City and the Dead (Affaldet, byen og døden) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder which, in the staging of Klaus Hoffmeyer, became a much discussed performance because of its coarseness.

With the director Søren Iversen and Lisbeth Sjölin as managers from 1992-2008 and the relocation to Halmtorvet, the theatre has created a precise profile with modern Danish and foreign drama which is relevant to modern life and reality and which in its form is abreast of the trends of today. Plays like the trilogi Morning and Night (Morgen og aften), The Blessed Child (Det Velsignede Barn) and Ashes to Ashes – Dust to Dust (Aske til Aske - støv til støv) (1996-97) by Astrid Saalbach and The Intending Purchasers (Liebhaverne) (1997) and My Two Sisters (Mine to søstre) (2001) by Nicoline Werdelin have helped boost the identity and Husets Teater has won several Reumert Awards for the effort during the last few years.

July 1, 2008 the management of Husets Teater was taken over by actor and director, Mads Wille, and playwright, director and dramaturge, Simon K. Boberg. The partners came from the theatre PLAN-B which they ran from 2002-2008 in the very same offices on forth floor in “Huset I Magstræde” where Husets Teater was founded.