Show Archive - Helsinki City Theatre

Pajtim Statovci as Tuomas Timonen

Bolla

Premiere 2.9.2021 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Bolla is a great love story set in the midst of war, where good and evil are not black and white. Star writer Pajtim Statovci's Finlandia Prize-winning Bolla, who has attracted wide international interest, is now on stage.

Anna Takanen

Sörjen som blev

Premiere 1.9.2021 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Last performance 25.9! The performance will be subtitled in Finnish!

Kay Pollak – Carin Pollak – Fredrik Kempe

Niin kuin taivaassa

Premiere 26.8.2021 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

The touching musical novelty As in Heaven Finally in Finland! This vigorous story, also known as a film, contains touching destinies and liberating joy, offers the viewer warmth and balm for the soul.

Ken Ludwig as Arthur Conan Doyle

Baskervillen koira

Premiere 25.8.2021 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

Throw yourself into a dizzying detective comedy! Santeri Kinnunen is the world's most famous detective Sherlock Holmes and Risto Kaskilahti is Dr. Watson in this comically tuned version of the classic story.

Giovanni Boccaccio – Akse Pettersson

Decamerone

Premiere 21.4.2021 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Ten young people flee the plague to the countryside. To entertain one another, they tell amusing stories, often about love and eroticism – subjects that take their minds as far away from death as possible. A Renaissance classic springs to life in a collaboration between Helsinki City Theatre and the Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki.

Miiko Toiviainen

Det liv som blivit mig givet

Premiere 9.4.2021 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

The award-winning monologue in Swedish!

Kristian Smeds

Karpolla on asiaa

Premiere 19.2.2021 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

The production brings together true stories told in different episodes of the TV series of the same name. The conflicts life throws our way are neither feared nor avoided – they are brought out into the open.

Ilari Johansson – Yhden illan keikka

Premiere 13.11.2020 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

Expect sharp observations on humanity across the decades, opinions and plenty of offence taken. Ilari won’t be performing many solo shows in 2020, so book your tickets early.

Enda Walsh – Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová

Once (på svenska)

Premiere 28.10.2020 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

The award-winning musical comes to the Nordics for the first time!

Sofi Oksanen – Elina Snicker – Maija Vilkkumaa

Vain parasta minulle

Premiere 27.10.2020 – Small Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

Performed on a small stage, the three plays born from different origins together create an evening that touches, laughs and surprises.

A co-production with Carl Knif Company

Kaksivärinen fuuga

Premiere 12.10.2020 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

In Kaksivärinen fuuga, a co-production by Helsinki City Theatre’s dance company Helsinki Dance Company (HDC) and Carl Knif Company (CKC), the precise formal language of Dmitri Shostakovich’s magnificent music meets the dancers’ richly expressive movement.

Nina Hemmingsson, Gunnar Lundkvist

Livet ditt as

Premiere 2.10.2020 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Blaue Frau + Nina Hemmingsson = a perfect match

Erik Kiviniemi

Bladis pojkan

Premiere 2.10.2020 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

A storytelling performance created and performed by Erik Kiviniemi about right and wrong, freedom and responsibility, growing up and becoming a man with soft hands.

Donald Margulies

Illallinen ystävien kesken

Premiere 16.9.2020 – Studio Pasila – Ratamestarinkatu 5

Is your relationship perfectly ripe? Are you craving another helping... or a little more spice?

Helena Anttonen

Toinen pullo cavaa

Premiere 10.9.2020 – Arena Stage – Hämeentie 2

A warm and insightful comedy about women's friendship and the retirement home of their dreams.

Märta Tikkanen – Lo Kauppi – Sara Giese

Män kan inte våldtas

Premiere 5.9.2020 – Lilla Teatern – Georgsgatan 30

Märta Tikkanen’s classic.

Danny Rubin – Tim Minchin

Päiväni murmelina

Premiere 3.9.2020 – Main Stage – Eläintarhantie 5

This romantic musical comedy will make you laugh and serve as a delightful reminder of how important it is to embrace life’s unexpected twists and turns. Päiväni murmelina is a musical comedy you’ll want to see again and again and again and again. And again.