The theatre was founded in 1976 by two Americans, Robert Rumpf and Clifford Dean who trained and worked professionally in the United States before coming to Hamburg in the mid-1970s.

Since taking on his position, Glaser has produced and directed a series of new adaptations of British and U.S. plays, including The Picture of Dorian Gray,[2] The Pride,[3] Moonlight And Magnolias,[4], I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change[5], Apologia[6] The Woman in Black,[7] and Death Knell.

[8] In 2022, Glaser wrote and directed his stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations which premiered at The English Theatre of Hamburg in the same year.

[9] In 2023 Glaser directed his new stage adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.

[10] In November 2023, Glaser received the Theaterpreis Hamburg – Rolf Mares, for his English Theater production of The Pride, a play by Alexi Kaye Campbell, “... celebrating the diversity and openness of society, which needs to be defended today more than ever.”[11]