Helsinki Dance Company & Kinetic Orchestra

Silence

Premiere 9.10.2024 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Silence is a dance performance inspired by the performance of classical music. The dance group forms an orchestra that follows the tradition of classical music and does everything in its power to bring the parts of the concerto to life.

Steven Moffat

Yllätysvieras

Premiere 12.9.2024 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

The Surprise Guest is a sharply funny, recognizable and hilarious comedy. It shows in a hilarious way where excessive politeness can lead us and what the consequences can be when we don't dare to say it.

Arne Lygre

Ilon aika

Premiere 5.9.2024 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

A Time of Joy is a playful, hopeful and original tableau of life choices and the quest to connect with others, which has gathered full audiences in Norway, Sweden and France.

Merja Larivaara – Satu Rasila – Pasi Lampela

Nainen – aina parhaassa iässä

Premiere 4.9.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Merja Larivaara and her friends and the Kaihon Karavaani Orchestra celebrate life and femininity in a musical entertainment evening for all kinds of women and those who love women. The evening is bubbling with pure joy, nostalgia, swing, dancing and the charm of speed!

Lars von Trier as Patrick Ellsworth as Marie Højlund

Dancer in the Dark

Premiere 31.8.2024 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

World premiere of the musical version of Lars von Trier's acclaimed film Dancer in the Dark!

Baz Luhrmann's revolutionary film comes to life

Moulin Rouge! Musikaali

Premiere 29.8.2024 – The big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Moulin Rouge! The musical is a mega success! The Oscar-winning epic classic comes to life, blows your mind and envelops you in a sparkle like never before! Step inside the sensual splendor, forget all your inhibitions and indulge in wild fun – welcome to the Moulin Rouge! To the musical!

Working group Royal Cotton Candy

Whatever Love Means

Premiere 7.8.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Whatever Love Means is a disproportionately romantic comedy about love. In this witty contemporary puppet show, foam cups get lost in their footnotes, and romcom celebrities, each more charming than the other, act as advisors in the concept of love.

Local festival

Nuori Näyttämö

Premiere 25.4.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

The local festival of the Young Stage project will feature interpretations by young groups from the Uusimaa region of the following plays: Pauliina Feodoroff's The Colonial Nation, Marko Järvikallas' The Cherry Bomb, Arda Salaniemi's (formerly The Cherry Bomb). Yildirim) On Us, Flies and Christoffer Mellgren's Cake to Share (in Finnish. Sinna Virtanen).

Arni Rajamäki

Alku keskikohta loppu

Premiere 19.4.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Beginning, Middle, End is an anarchist speech performance in which an actor performs the text of a play to the audience as prima vista, i.e. seeing it for the first time.

Horace McCoy as Ray Herman

Maratontanssit

Premiere 18.4.2024 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

The classic play tells the story of a popular form of entertainment in the United States in the 1930s, in which young people participated in brutal marathon dance competitions in the hope of a cash prize and fame.

Kaino Wennerstrand

Empty Stage

Premiere 11.4.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Empty Stage is artist Kaino Wennerstrand's theatrical performance about the stages of our lives that seem empty when they are not. Wennerstrand's solo work features a body that has always been on stage and knows nothing else.  Empty Stage is artist Kaino Wennerstrand's theatre performance about the stages of our lives that seem empty, even though they're not. Wennerstrand's solo is guided by a body that has been on the stage forever, unaware of the world outside.

Katri Kirkkopelto

Mollin iltahepuli

Premiere 3.4.2024 – The foyer of the small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Molli's Evening Fun is a fun and participatory performance about a topic that is very familiar to families with children - sleeping.

Nour El Refai – säger skämt i ca 75 minuter

Premiere 9.3.2024 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Nour El Refai is coming to Helsinki again in October 2024!

Erik Gedeon

Forever Young

Premiere 7.3.2024 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

In this boisterous musical comedy from the actors' retirement home, you can come to terms with your aging, or better understand your parents' taste in music, laugh and find yourself almost singing along as the Arena stage blasts the most famous hits of the past decades. It's wonderful to be young – even when you're old!

Michael Cooney

Ilmasta rahaa

Premiere 15.2.2024 – The big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Money from the Air is a true classic of farces, a laughter bomb that explodes over and over again, offering a series of exceptionally fast plot twists, surprising misunderstandings and a fair amount of famous door slamming.

Mika Eirtovaara – Ihminen

Premiere 10.2.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

In the spring of 2024, stand-up virtuoso Mika Eirtovaara will take a deep dive into the deep end of the pool of humanity when his latest stand-up show IHMINEN is born into the light of day.

Improvisational theatre

Stella Polaris

Premiere 9.2.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

The renowned improvisation theatre Stella Polaris visits Studio Pasila with performances of Free Fall and PRIMA VISTA.

Danny Robins

2:22 A Ghost Story

Premiere 8.2.2024 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

2:22 A Ghost Story is a skilfully written and ingeniously executed drama of growing suspense, a psychological thriller with a condensing atmosphere that glues the viewer to the seat.

Minttu Mustakallio as Ville Virtanen

Minttu sekä Ville

Premiere 2.2.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Jussi and Venla Award-winning actors Minttu Mustakallio and Ville Virtanen, known from film and TV, bring their improvisational duet to Pasila to the delight of the audience!

Jez Butterworth

Jerusalem

Premiere 1.2.2024 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Voted the best play of the 2000s, Jerusalem is a raucous comedic drama full of verbal fireworks and colourful characters. In the work, which has become an exceptional phenomenon, the present meets the mythical past, as a group of social exclusions struggle for their self-esteem under the leadership of Johnny Byron.