Helsinki Dance Company & Anton Lachky

Special Night

Premiere 8.3.2023 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

In 2023, Helsinki Dance Company celebrates its 50th anniversary. Over the years, the company has worked with numerous acclaimed artists from Finland and abroad. It has played a vital role in the development of contemporary dance in Finland, continually attracted new audiences to its works and created unforgettable experiences for five decades.

Janne Puustinen

Elonsiivous

Premiere 23.2.2023 – Main Stage foyer – Eläintarhantie 5

The theatre production Elonsiivous – tarina sitkeästä ystävyydestä was created as part of the Taidetta ikääntyneiden koteihin project.

Tommi Kinnunen - Susanna Airaksinen

Ei kertonut katuvansa

Premiere 9.2.2023 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Ei kertonut katuvansa is a timeless story of survival. It gives a voice to women whose stories have never been told before and casts a chapter of Finnish history in a new light. Despite its harrowing subject matter, it is an airy and beautiful tale of a journey – the story of five strong women on the road, accompanied by a gritty live band on stage.

Hugleikur Dagsson

Hugleikur Dagsson – Dagsson does Finland

Premiere 6.2.2023 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

Icelandic cartoonist/comedian/carnivore Hugleikur Dagsson returns to Finland with a stand up comedy show about sex, drugs and cat murder.

Runar Schildt - Juha Hurme

Asmodeus ja 1313 sielua

Premiere 26.1.2023 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Award-winning director and writer Juha Hurme makes his HCT debut with a fast-paced, multilayered comedy true to his distinctive style.

Ingmar Bergman

Fanny ja Alexander

Premiere 17.11.2022 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Fanny ja Alexander brings a mythical, richly imaginative world to the stage, filled with colourful characters and powerful family drama. Directed by Paavo Westerberg, this new-generation Fanny ja Alexander is a captivating theatrical fantasy featuring the brightest stars of Finnish theatre.

Ismo Leikola

ISMO in English!

Premiere 13.11.2022 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

This unique event is all about Ismo's English stand up comedy. You will hear jokes Ismo tells on stage in the US and worldwide. The ultimate observer, ISMO is able to make people see familiar things anew through his unique perspective.

Helsinki Dance Company & Valtteri Raekallio

Lomonosovin moottori

Premiere 1.11.2022 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Helsinki Dance Company's autumn 2022 premiere is a dance performance by choreographer Valtteri Raekallio.

Leena Krohn - Paula Salminen

Ystäväni pelikaani

Premiere 12.10.2022 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

A witty and wise play about the wonder of life. A captivating fantasy adventure about two strangers meeting in a big city, an unexpected friendship, homesickness, humanity, and our relationship with nature.

Tove Jansson

Kris och katastrof i Mumindalen

Premiere 1.10.2022 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Moominvalley as you’ve never seen it before!

Christopher Hampton – Leea Klemola – Rosa-Maria Perä

Vaarallisia suhteita

Premiere 28.9.2022 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Together with Rosa-Maria Perä, Leea Klemola has written a raunchy, shamelessly funny and terribly touching adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play Dangerous Relationships, in which stories, events and characters have been transferred to Finnish theatre struggling with financial difficulties.

Laura Lehtola – Milja Sarkola

Minä valitsin sinut

Premiere 22.9.2022 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Minä valitsin sinut is a fresh and perceptive play about a relationship in 21st-century Helsinki. With wit and tenderness, it traces the full arc of love, from falling head over heels to the oatmeal-flavoured routines of everyday life.

April De Angelis as Elena Ferrante

Min fantastiska väninna

Premiere 15.9.2022 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Ferrante fever at Lillan!

Ernest Thompson

Kultalampi

Premiere 8.9.2022 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

Kultalampi is a wistful and touching depiction of family, a long relationship, facing and accepting inevitable change and all transience.

Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott

Priscilla, aavikon kuningatar

Premiere 25.8.2022 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

The queen of party musicals, Priscilla is a dazzling, explosively spectacular road trip bursting with glitter. Priscilla takes you on an unforgettable journey across Australia aboard an epic party bus, with disco hits pumping, glitter flying and every light blazing. Priscilla is the party you don’t want to miss. The party everyone’s talking about – and with good reason.

Sanna Niemeläinen as Jenny Jumppanen

Mukavaa matkaa!

Premiere 24.8.2022 – Small Stage Foyer – Eläintarhantie 5

Theatre for babies! The performance, intended for infants and their immediate adults, marvels at the magic of theatre and explores the early interaction between a baby and an adult together.

Kati Korosuo

The Artist Is at Home

Premiere 23.8.2022 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Kati Korosuo's solo work The Artist Is at Home is a banal spectacle from a narcissistic artist for an audience thirsty for scandals. / Kati Korosuo's solo performance The Artist Is at Home is a banal spectacle from a narcissistic artist for a scandal yearning audience.

Sara Grotenfelt

Last Hurrah

Premiere 9.8.2022 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Last Hurrah is a celebratory performance that explores the emotional dimensions of revelry. The bodily states of the guest of honour—the lead performer—and the associations they evoke bring feelings of emptiness and awkwardness to the stage.

Helsingin Feministinen Salaseura

Kohtaamisia

Premiere 9.8.2022 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

What would you talk about if you could speak through someone else’s body? Encounterings is a series of conversations in which the audience witnesses encounters between anonymous individuals, channelled through performers.

Eeva Juutinen

olO

Premiere 27.5.2022 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Choreographer Eeva Juutinen’s stage work olO explores the rhythms of existence. It grew out of Juutinen’s eighteen-month process of drying plants and flowers, which inspired her to examine the vitality and mortality of the body. In the work, poetry forms a bridge between illusion and the everyday, present both in the theatre and in the body.