Sally Salminen - Kaisa Lundán - Aili Järvelä

Katrina

Premiere 31.1.2024 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

The hit musical is back in the repertoire!

Helsinki Dance Company & Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin

Veren häät

Premiere 24.1.2024 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin's Spanish-Roma-Jewish-Finnish flamenco orchestra and the dance group of the Helsinki City Theatre invite you to Blood's wedding!

H.C. Andersen as Janne Puustinen

Lumikuningatar/ Shed

Premiere 2.12.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

A new kind of musical version of H.C. Andersen's classic story The Snow Queen. The stage will feature the children and young people of the Helsinki City Theatre's Shed theatre group, as well as Vappu Nalbantoglu as the Snow Queen.

Mentalisti Pete Poskiparta

Premiere 21.11.2023 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

The performances of Finland's number one mentalist are a kind of concerts of miracles of the mind, where the performer and the audience play together like a skilled jazz orchestra. Unique is created from content that changes every night, with Pete's the most astonishing sections over the years, as well as a whole host of new and Unseen material!

Beaumarchais – Marko – Zandén

Figaros bröllop

Premiere 19.10.2023 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Who gets who when the day is over?

Steven Levenson as Benj Pasek as Justin Paul

Rakas Evan Hansen

Premiere 28.9.2023 – The big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Beloved Evan Hansen is a lovably authentic musical with a big heart. It is a deeply human, powerfully touching and very relatable musical full of hope. Dear Evan Hansen has beautiful music, one wonderful one after the other ballads and catchy pop songs that stay wonderfully in your head.

Okko Leo

Ape army

Premiere 27.9.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

For the price of a theatre ticket, you can become an investment genius in a couple of hours! Two work-averse millennials invest their unemployment benefits in meme stocks and cryptocurrencies on a whim. Half by accident, they will disrupt the entire world economy.

Helsinki Dance Company & Kinetic Orchestra

Gravity

Premiere 20.9.2023 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Gravity takes the viewer deep into the world of dance by combining different contemporary dance techniques with acrobatics and martial arts.

Rosa Liksom – Susanna Airaksinen

Everstinna

Premiere 14.9.2023 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

The exhilaratingly furious performance touches, laughs and terrifies.

Kaj Korkea-aho as Tuomas Timonen

Röda rummet

Premiere 14.9.2023 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Kaj Korkea-aho's novel now as a theatre!

Agatha Christie

Hiirenloukku

Premiere 7.9.2023 – The big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Detective queen Agatha Christie's Mousetrap is set in nostalgic 1950s England. The work, which premiered in London in 1952, is the world's longest-running play, an undisputed classic and an incredibly popular theatrical phenomenon. Now this chilling thriller will be seen at the Helsinki City Theatre.

Monika Fagerholm as Peppa Lonka

Kuka tappoi bambin?

Premiere 31.8.2023 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

The harmony of the idyllic Villa Town is shattered at once when four boys from a well-to-do family assault a young girl at a party. The shocked community wants to forget the tragedy as quickly as possible. No matter how horrible the act is, the harmony of the community is more important.

Masi Tiitta

Dilemma

Premiere 22.8.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

A dilemma is a dialogue between two people about life's big and small choices. Even though the discussion does not seem to lead to definitive solutions, listening to the other person opens up opportunities to be different. 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 – The big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

The Little Mermaid is a fascinatingly wonderful, timeless love story, whose magically beautiful music has charmed musical audiences around the world and swam directly into the hearts of viewers in Helsinki as well.

Trial & Theatre

Nano Steps

Premiere 8.8.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Nano Steps is a performance that tells about a strange relationship across scales and sensory boundaries. It examines what happens when a physicist collides with particles invisible to the human eye at a point of light in a microscope. A group of puppet theatre artists harness the methods of applied physics on the stage of Studio Pasila and take them to the basement laboratory, where the research is unpredictable. 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 gets to direct Uniarts Helsinki's young, future stars in her work Untitled. The performance is a co-production of the Acting Degree Programme of the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and the Helsinki City Theatre.

Ali Jahangiri – Uusi Alku

Premiere 25.3.2023 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Uusi Alku is Ali Jahangir's fresh all-night stand-up show, the common thread of which is change and starting something new.