Helsinki Dance Company & Anton Lachky

Special Night

Premiere 8.3.2023 – The big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

In 2023, Helsinki Dance Company celebrates its 50th anniversary. Over the years, the group has worked with several renowned foreign and domestic artists. It has had a significant impact on the development of contemporary dance in Finland, always finding new viewers for its works, and offering unforgettable experiences for five decades.

Janne Puustinen

Elonsiivous

Premiere 23.2.2023 – The foyer of the big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

As part of the Art for the Homes of the Elderly project, a theatre performance entitled Elonsiivous – a story of a tenacious friendship has been completed.

Tommi Kinnunen as Susanna Airaksinen

Ei kertonut katuvansa

Premiere 9.2.2023 – The big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Ei tellta regretted is a timeless survival story. It gives a voice to women whose stories have not been told before and puts the song about Finnish history in a new light. Despite its heavy subject matter, it is an airy and beautiful story of a wandering - the story of five strong women, accompanied by a rough 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 as Juha Hurme

Asmodeus ja 1313 sielua

Premiere 26.1.2023 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Award-winning director and writer Juha Hurme is visiting HKT for the first time, bringing with him a multi-layered and fast-paced comedy true to his style.

Ingmar Bergman

Fanny ja Alexander

Premiere 17.11.2022 – The big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Fanny and Alexander brings to the stage a mythical and imaginative world, colourful characters and powerful family drama. Directed by Paavo Westerberg, the new generation of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating stage fantasy starring the bright 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 as Paula Salminen

Ystäväni pelikaani

Premiere 12.10.2022 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

A funnily wise play about the wonder of life. A charming fantasy adventure about the encounter of two strangers in a big city, a surprising friendship, homesickness, humanity and the relationship between man and nature.

Tove Jansson

Kris och katastrof i Mumindalen

Premiere 1.10.2022 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

A Moominvalley like 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 as Milja Sarkola

Minä valitsin sinut

Premiere 22.9.2022 – Small stage – Eläintarhantie 5

I Chose You is a fresh and perceptive play about a relationship in 21st century Helsinki. It sharply and tenderly depicts the entire arc of a relationship, from falling in love that takes you off your feet to an oatmeal-flavored 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 – The big stage – Eläintarhantie 5

The queen of party musicals, Priscilla is a sparkling, explosively gorgeous and sparkling road trip. Priscilla has an unforgettable journey on an epic party bus through Australia to the beat of disco hits, glitter and all the lights shining. Prisc has a party you don't want to miss. The party that everyone talks about – for a reason.

Sanna Niemeläinen as Jenny Jumppanen

Mukavaa matkaa!

Premiere 24.8.2022 – The foyer of the small stage – 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 festive performance in which the different emotional sides of partying come to the fore. In the performance, the bodily states of the celebrant, i.e. the main performer, and the associations they evoke bring a feeling of emptiness and discomfort to the stage. / Last Hurrah is a party performance where different emotional sides of celebration rise to the surface. The protagonist's bodily existence and expressions bring forth different associations that intensify a sense of emptiness and awkwardness seen on stage.

Helsinki Feminist Secret Society

Kohtaamisia

Premiere 9.8.2022 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

What would you talk about if you could do it through a foreign body? Encounters is a series of conversations in which the audience follows the meeting of faceless people through performers. / What would you talk about if you could do it through someone else's body? Encounterings is a series of conversations in which the audience is following a meeting of two anonymous persons via performers.

Eeva Juutinen

olO

Premiere 27.5.2022 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Choreographer Eeva Juutinen's OlO is a stage work that perceives the rhythms of being. It is based on Juutinen's one-and-a-half-year drying process of plants and flowers, which inspired her to explore the liveliness and mortality of the body. In the work, poetry acts as a connection between the illusion present in the theatre and the body and the everyday. / Choreographer Eeva Juutinen's stage work olO outlines the rhythms of being. Juutinen's long term plant and flower drying process inspired her to explore the liveliness and mortality of the body. In olO poem acts as a crossing between illusion and mundane in the theatre space and in the body.