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From Helsinki to Hannover: Saara Turunen’s The Days of the Hyena

The premiere of Die Tage der Hyäne will take place on 14 November 2025 in Staatstheater Hannover.

Nine Finnish Playwrights Featured at Gothenburg Book Fair

E. L. Karhu, Leea Klemola, Pipsa Lonka, Christoffer Mellgren, Arni Rajamäki, Laura Ruohonen, Otto Sa...

Encounters at Oslo’s Showbox Festival

The performance concept by Helsinki Feminist Secret Society will next be experienced in Oslo in Nove...

A Transformative Journey Through Memory, Land, and Belonging

A groundbreaking international performance series explores cultural marginalization and landscape me...

Drama at the Gothenburg Book Fair

The largest cultural event in the Nordics – the Gothenburg Book Fair – will spotlight drama as its m...

Reality Bang to be premiered in Salzburg

Oblivia’s latest work Reality Bang premieres on 20 June 2025 in ARGEkultur Salzburg as part of the S...

Jason Beckmann, What’s Up?

Finnish playwright Juha Jokela’s play The Fundamentalist (2006) is about to be revived in New York....

Georgian artists calling for solidarity

We urgently call upon theatres, theatre schools and artists worldwide to stand in solidarity with th...

TINFO launches the Portable Sharing (PS) project

Theatre Info Finland TINFO, along with five other Nordic and Baltic performance organisations and fe...

3,5 million performing arts visits in 2023

TINFO’s extensive annual theatre, dance, and circus statistics from 2023 are out and available onlin...

Turning to others

From the topical political affects in Wuppertal to the lost dodo outlining the dramaturgy of the Ant...

Turn Turtle Turn series continues with a lecture performance and a reality bang

Performance group Oblivia’s ongoing series on the Anthropocene continues.

Shaking it up: on toppling traditions

Playwright and director Arni Rajamäki first emerged onto the Finnish theatre scene with their final...

The latest issue of Critical Stages

This edition features 52 contributions from 26 countries, offering a selection of works that reflect...

Seagulls to make their voices heard in Poland and Czech Republic

Leading Finnish playwright Pipsa Lonka’s sky every day is set to debut in Prague later this year, wi...

The new artistic directors of Hangö Teaterträff want to shake things up

Emelie Zilliacus and Martin Paul, the newly minted artistic directors of the international Hangö Tea...

A performance as an anthem for our times

Johnny got his gun, a theatre piece by dramaturge and director Essi Rossi, sound designer Pauli Riik...

Tutkimus vahvistaa tietopohjaa taide- ja kulttuurialan moninaisuudesta

Kulttuuripolitiikan tutkimuskeskuksessa Cuporessa on tehty tutkimus- ja kehittämistyötä taide- ja ku...

The Lea Prize for the best Finnish play of 2022

The Lea Prize for the best Finnish play of 2022 has been awarded to Eriopis - Medea's Survivor Daugh...

Finnish performers, writers and works around the world

Finnish performers, writers and works around the world

Human encounters in Vilnius

The Feminist Secret Society of Helsinki has received an invitation to appear at this year’s Vilnius...

Theatres are open, audiences are back

Our statistical yearbook for 2022 has now been published. During the year in review, the effects of...

Finnish playwrights at Craf Bites International -events

Playwrights Guild of Canada PGC members have been paired up with an International playwright to shar...

Performance and Solidarity

Tilaa uusi, englanninkielinen kirjoituskokoelma itsellesi.

From Start to Finnish at Edinburgh Fringe Festival

From Start to Finnish is an annual showcase of Finnish performing arts at the Edinburgh Fringe festi...

Dramaturgs' Network: Elliot Heyes Award

David Harris, Jarkko Lehmus and Katalin Trencsényi have won the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs’ of...

Performance and Solidarity

We are excited to announce the launch of Performance and Solidarity, a brand new collection of essay...

The Finnish Exhibition of Countries and Regions at PQ2023

The theme of PQ2023 is RARE and the Finnish national exhibition will be addressed under the sub-them...

Two Russian theatre makers accused for supporting terrorism

Russian theatre director Eugenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk are accused i...

Kaikukortti esittää -julkaisusarja tarjoaa inspiraatiota ikäihmisten hyvinvointiin

Kulttuuria kaikille -palvelu tuotti sarjan videoita ja podcast-jakson Kulttuurihyvinvointia ikäihmis...

Thalia Gala on World Theatre Day, 27 March 2023

The event celebrates artistic excellence across the theatre, dance and circus industries in Finland....

Middle Eastern Bloc Podcast

The Middle Eastern Bloc podcast is a serie of short episods written by people who belong to the cult...

Finnish theatre bounces back

The performing arts have remained popular among Finnish audiences despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Alt...

Looking for direction

A new book rethinking theatre directing practices and pedagogies in the 21st century.

Finnish Cultural Foundation: World on Stage Grant

Theatres may apply for the grant for the first time in the Cultural Foundation's August 2022 round o...

Artist selections for the Kulkue project announced

The artwork will be presented at the ANTI Festival, Baltic Circle Festival and Hangö Teaterträff bet...

Culture Current: Openings workshop has kicked off with nine invited international participants

Openings, an intensive three-month workshop in the performing arts in Helsinki, has kicked off with...

House of New Theatre association was established

Professionals from different cultural backgrounds in Helsinki want a permanent space for performance...

European ITI centres express solidarity with their colleagues in Ukraine

Cultural policy in the Nordic welfare states

Aims and functions of public funding for culture

Public defence: Dynamics of value creation in the audience experiences of contemporary dance

Saara Moisio’s doctoral dissertation "Balancing Acts in Spectatorship – Dynamics of Value Creation i...

Protect the future of Theatre Studies at Helsinki University

Please add your name to the petition by 3 January 2022.

Desperate Afghan artists and creatives appeal to world leaders for rescue

Artists at Risk (AR) has been entrusted with a desperate and powerful letter from Afghan artists and...

Studio Total’s first creation in 2022 Die Wohnung premieres in Munich

Studio Total starts its performance season 2022 in Germany.

World on Stage

A new drama project supports the translation and staging of foreign drama in Finland. Funding for th...

Надломленные юные голоса в декорациях ”Преступления и наказания”

Театральный режиссер Йоханна Фройндлих создала инсценировку для трех актеров. ”Преступление и наказа...

Emotions and politics

Performance art collective Oblivia is hitting the road with Verdrängen, Verdrängen, Verdrängen whils...

Music theatre for all the senses

Helsinki-based performance art company Oblivia are collaborating with Theater Bremen and Oper Wupper...

Are remakes the real deal?

Remakes could offer a sustainable, ethical and financially viable way to run international theatre p...

Three Finnish plays head for Vilnius

Elli Salo’s Alina, Mika Myllyaho’s Garage and Tuomas Timonen’s Stabbed for Complaining About the Noi...

Other Spaces crosses borders to deliver transgenerational theatre in Germany

Helsinki-based Other Spaces collective’s Collection of Imaginary Beings is headed for the Hamburg Ku...

Saara Turunen’s play to open in Germany

Written and directed by Saara Turunen, The Phantom of Normality is set to open at Schauspielhaus Boc...

Other Spaces to deliver transformative exercises at Wiener Festwochen

Live Art collective Other Spaces will give a workshop together with the Brussels-based artist Kate M...

Petri Tuhkanen awarded in Estonia

Studio Total’s artistic director, lightning and video designer Petri Tuhkanen was awarded in Estonia...

Belarusian theatre appeal

Appeal to colleagues in the world cultural community from the Belarusian theatre representatives.

Rör inte kulturbudgeten

Centralförbundet för Finlandssvenska Teaterorganisationer rf (Cefisto) är mycket oroat över de nedsk...

Nature sees us

Pipsa Lonka’s posthumanist play dissects our human-centred way of seeing the world. It is now set to...

Kestosuosikki Venäjällä

Näytelmäkirjailija Sirkku Peltolan teokset kiinnostavat maailman teattereissa. Venäläisistä tuotanno...

Global connections – virtually and face-to-face

International network for contemporary performing arts (IETM) members are due to gather for their an...

ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art

The nominees for the 2020 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live are: Geumhyung Jeong (South Kor...

Konst- och kulturbarometer

Taike och Cupore förbereder en ny Konst- och kulturbarometer. Temat är den här gången konstnärerna o...

Uusi podcast avaa lämpiöelämää Seinäjoen kaupunginteatterissa

Podcastin ensimmäiset vieraat ovat Evita-musikaalin ohjaaja Tuomas Parkkinen ja koreografi Jukka Haa...

ICE HOLE issue 10: Isolation

The 10th issue of ICE HOLE online journal is now out.

Obsessions on stage

Performance company Oblivia will participate in the Operas! initiative in Germany with its new work...

The Ecosystem of Finnish Performance

The number of spectators for theatre, dance and circus amounted to 3,5 million in 2023, though it va...

Lägesbild över teatern under coronavåren

TINFO tog fram en lista med 10 punkter som ger ett brett perspektiv på läget just nu inom teatern oc...

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