Märta Tikkanen - Riikka Oksanen - Aino Pennanen

Århundradets kärlekssaga

Premiere 10.10.2024 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Märta Tikkanen’s iconic verse novel brought to the stage!

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 dancers form an orchestra in the classical tradition and do everything they can to bring the movements of the concerto to life.

Steven Moffat

Yllätysvieras

Premiere 12.9.2024 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

Yllätysvieras is a sharp, relatable and irresistibly funny comedy. With hilarious results, it reveals where excessive politeness can lead us – and what can happen when we are too embarrassed to speak our minds.

Arne Lygre

Ilon aika

Premiere 5.9.2024 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Ilon aika is a playful, hopeful and original portrait of life choices and our desire to connect with others that has played to packed houses 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 friends, together with the Kaihon Karavaani orchestra, celebrate life and womanhood in a musical entertainment evening for women of all kinds – and everyone who loves women. The night brims with pure joy, nostalgia, swing, dance and exhilarating energy!

Lars von Trier - Patrick Ellsworth - Marie Højlund

Dancer in the Dark

Premiere 31.8.2024 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

World premiere of the musical adaptation of Lars von Trier’s acclaimed film Dancer in the Dark!

Royal Hattara creative team

Whatever Love Means

Premiere 7.8.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Whatever Love Means is an outrageously romantic comedy about love. In this witty contemporary puppet theatre production, foam-rubber Cupids lose themselves in their own footnotes, while an irresistible cast of romcom celebrities offers guidance through love’s bewildering conceptual maze.

Local festival

Nuori Näyttämö

Premiere 25.4.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

The Nuori Näyttämö project’s local festival will feature interpretations by youth groups from the Uusimaa region of the following plays: Pauliina Feodoroff’s Siirtomaakansakunta, Marko Järvikallas’s Kirsikkapommi, Arda Salaniemi’s (formerly Yildirim) Meistä, kärpäsistä and Christoffer Mellgren’s Kakkua jaettavaksi (Finnish translation by Sinna Virtanen).

Arni Rajamäki

Alku keskikohta loppu

Premiere 19.4.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Alku keskikohta loppu is an anarchic spoken-word performance in which an actor performs a play for the audience prima vista – seeing the script for the first time as they perform it.

Horace McCoy - Ray Herman

Maratontanssit

Premiere 18.4.2024 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

This classic play tells the story of a popular form of entertainment in 1930s America, in which young people took part in brutal dance marathons in the hope of prize money and fame.

Kaino Wennerstrand

Empty Stage

Premiere 11.4.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Empty Stage is artist Kaino Wennerstrand’s theatre performance about the stages of our lives that seem empty, even though they are not. Wennerstrand’s solo features a body that has always been on stage and knows nothing else.

Katri Kirkkopelto

Mollin iltahepuli

Premiere 3.4.2024 – Small Stage Foyer – Eläintarhantie 5

Mollin iltahepuli is a fun, interactive performance for families with children about a very familiar topic – bedtime.

Nour El Refai – säger skämt i ca 75 minuter

Premiere 9.3.2024 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

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

Erik Gedeon

Forever Young

Premiere 7.3.2024 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

This riotously bittersweet musical comedy, set in a retirement home for actors, will help you come to terms with growing older – or at least better understand your parents’ taste in music. You’ll laugh and find yourself almost singing along as the Arena Stage reverberates with the greatest hits of recent decades. It’s wonderful to be young – even when you’re old!

Michael Cooney

Ilmasta rahaa

Premiere 15.2.2024 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Ilmasta rahaa is a true classic of farce – an explosive comedy packed with lightning-fast plot twists, hilarious misunderstandings and, of course, plenty of famous door-slamming.

Mika Eirtovaara – Ihminen

Premiere 10.2.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

In spring 2024, stand-up virtuoso Mika Eirtovaara takes a deep dive into the human condition as his latest stand-up show, IHMINEN, emerges into the light of day.

Improvisational theatre

Stella Polaris

Premiere 9.2.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

The acclaimed improvisational theatre company Stella Polaris visits Studio Pasila with Vapaa pudotus 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 staged drama of mounting suspense – an atmospheric psychological thriller that will keep you glued to your seat.

Minttu Mustakallio - Ville Virtanen

Minttu sekä Ville

Premiere 2.2.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Jussi and Venla Award-winning actors Minttu Mustakallio and Ville Virtanen, familiar from film and television, bring their improvisational duo to Pasila for audiences to enjoy!

Jez Butterworth

Jerusalem

Premiere 1.2.2024 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Voted the best play of the 21st century, Jerusalem is an explosive comedy-drama bursting with verbal fireworks and colourful characters. In this extraordinary theatrical phenomenon, the modern world collides with a mythical past as a group of society’s outcasts, led by Johnny Byron, fight for their dignity.