Sally Salminen - Kaisa Lundán - Aili Järvelä

Katrina

Premiere 31.1.2024 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

The hit musical is back in the programme!

Helsinki Dance Company & Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin

Veren häät

Premiere 24.1.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin’s Spanish–Romani–Jewish–Finnish flamenco orchestra and the Helsinki City Theatre Dance Company invite you to Veren häät!

H.C. Andersen - Janne Puustinen

Lumikuningatar/ Shed

Premiere 2.12.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

A fresh musical adaptation of H.C. Andersen’s classic tale Lumikuningatar. The production features children and young people from Helsinki City Theatre’s Shed theatre group, with Vappu Nalbantoglu as the Snow Queen.

Mentalisti Pete Poskiparta

Premiere 21.11.2023 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

Finland’s leading mentalist presents a unique concert of wonders of the mind, where performer and audience play together like a virtuoso jazz ensemble. Each night, a one-of-a-kind show emerges from an ever-changing line-up featuring Pete’s most astonishing acts from over the years, along with a wealth of new, never-before-seen material!

Beaumarchais – Marko – Zandén

Figaros bröllop

Premiere 19.10.2023 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Who ends up with whom when the day is done?

Steven Levenson - Benj Pasek - Justin Paul

Rakas Evan Hansen

Premiere 28.9.2023 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Rakas Evan Hansen is a beautifully honest musical with a big heart. Deeply human, profoundly moving and wonderfully relatable, it is a story filled with hope. Rakas Evan Hansen features gorgeous music, one stunning ballad after another and infectious pop songs that will stay with you long after the curtain falls.

Okko Leo

Ape army

Premiere 27.9.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Become an investment genius in just a couple of hours – for the price of a theatre ticket! Two work-shy millennials impulsively invest their unemployment benefits in meme stocks and cryptocurrencies. Almost by accident, they end up throwing the entire global economy into turmoil.

Helsinki Dance Company & Kinetic Orchestra

Gravity

Premiere 20.9.2023 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Gravity takes audiences deep into the world of dance, blending contemporary dance techniques with acrobatics and martial arts.

Rosa Liksom – Susanna Airaksinen

Everstinna

Premiere 14.9.2023 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

A riotously fierce production that moves, amuses and horrifies.

Kaj Korkea-aho – Tuomas Timonen

Röda rummet

Premiere 14.9.2023 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Kaj Korkea-aho’s novel now on stage!

Agatha Christie

Hiirenloukku

Premiere 7.9.2023 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Agatha Christie’s Hiirenloukku is set in the nostalgic world of 1950s England. Premiered in London in 1952, it is the world’s longest-running play, an undisputed classic and an extraordinarily popular theatrical phenomenon. Now this chilling thriller comes to Helsinki City Theatre.

Monika Fagerholm – Pipsa Lonka

Kuka tappoi bambin?

Premiere 31.8.2023 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

The harmony of idyllic Huvilakaupunki is shattered in an instant when four boys from a privileged family assault a young girl at a party. The shocked community wants to forget the tragedy as quickly as possible. No matter how horrific the act, the community’s harmony matters more.

Masi Tiitta

Dilemma

Premiere 22.8.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Dilemma is a dialogue between two people about life’s big and small choices. Although their conversation offers no definitive answers, listening to one another opens up possibilities for being otherwise. /// Dilemma is a dialogue between two people about great and small life decisions. While resolutions don't seem to be found, the act of listening for the other opens up possibilities for another way of being.

Helsinki City Theatre production

Pieni merenneito

Premiere 17.8.2023 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Pieni merenneito is an enchanting, timeless love story whose magical music has captivated musical theatre audiences around the world and swum straight into the hearts of Helsinki audiences, too.

Trial & Theatre

Nano Steps

Premiere 8.8.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Nano Steps is a performance about a strange relationship that transcends differences in scale and the limits of perception. It explores what happens when a physicist encounters particles invisible to the human eye in the pinpoint light of a microscope. A group of puppetry artists harnesses the methods of applied physics on the Studio Pasila stage, transporting audiences to a basement laboratory where research takes unpredictable turns. // Nano Steps is a performance that portrays an uncanny relationship between two entities across scales and boundaries. The performance inquires what happens when a physicist encounters invisible particles in the spotlight of a microscope. A group of puppeteers harness the methods of applied physics on the stage of Studio Pasila. The performance takes the spectators into a basement laboratory where research is unpredictable.

Fjolla Hoxha

What is seen and what’s (left) behind the scene?

Premiere 23.5.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

What is seen and what's (left) behind the scene? is a participatory listening performance that consists of the stories, memories, experiences and feelings of Helsinki City Theatre employees in relation to their workspaces. What is seen and what's (left) behind the scene? is a participatory sound performance that evolves from the stories, memoirs, experiences and the sensations of Helsinki City Theatre's technical staff, in relation to their work spaces.

Milla Jarko

TIIKERI – Se some@bility näyttämöteos eli consertti ja bienanaali Nykyesityksen näyttämölle ja muihin tiloihin

Premiere 19.5.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

We put on performances on our social media stages as much as we can. When there is no longer a separate reality and social media reality, but an all-encompassing social media, what is presentation? Will it ever end? What is a presentation? Tiikeri announces that he is one. We tinker with performances for our social media stages all we can. As reality dissolves into an omnipresent social media reality, it becomes hard to separate the truth from the game. What is performing then? Does it ever end? What is a performance? Tiikeri declares to be one.

The stage of a contemporary performance

Riittävän laitostunut

Premiere 17.5.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Sufficiently institutionalised is a seminar aimed at actors in the field of performing arts, which discusses the relationship between institutional theatre and the independent field in the light of the example provided by the Contemporary Performance Stage. Institutionalized Enough is a seminar directed to professionals working in the field of performing arts. It deals with relations between institutional theatre and the freelance field, in the light of the example set by the Stage for Contemporary Performance.

Ene-Liis Semper

Nimetön

Premiere 20.4.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Internationally acclaimed and award-winning director Ene-Liis Semper directs the young stars of tomorrow from Uniarts Helsinki in her work Nimetön. The production is a collaboration between the Degree Programme in Acting at Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy and Helsinki City Theatre.

Ali Jahangiri – Uusi Alku

Premiere 25.3.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Uusi Alku is Ali Jahangiri’s brand-new full-length stand-up show about change and new beginnings.