What happens if Juliet doesn't follow Romeo but chooses life? The musical & Julia, which charmed audiences in London and Broadway, updates Shakespeare's classic to the present day by challenging the idea that a woman's story is dependent on a man. The end result is an attitude-filled pop delight sprawling with hit songs by Britney Spears, Bon Jovi and Katy Perry, among others, which is directed to HKT's big stage by musical wizard Samuel Harjanne. & Julia will premiere on August 20, 2026.

The spring premiere of the Helsinki City Theatre's dance group Helsinki Dance Company will be choreographed by Brazilian Fernando Melo, whose new work Out of Order will premiere on 11 March on the small stage. The work, which combines illusion, choreography and moving sets, continues the collaboration between choreographer Fernando Melo and visual artist and magician Kalle Nio, whose previous work Tempo charmed audiences at the Helsinki Festival in August.

Helsinki City Theatre and the young people of the Shed musical theatre group invite the audience to join the audience on an adventure in which the classic fairy tale Peter Pan gets a modern and surprising look. The roles are played by the young people of Shed and actress Helena Haaranen, who has had a 50-year career in HKT.

In early 2026, HKT will premiere the farce comedy Comedy about a bank robbery directed by Samuel Harjanne, a warm-hearted play about friendship, love and ageing called Kurtturuusut and a new dramatisation of Hildur, based on Satu Rämö's bestselling book. Lilla Teatern's spring premiere will feature the absurd working life comedy Status Quo.

Re-dramatised by Satu Rasila and directed by Tuomas Parkkinen, Hildur brings Icelandic mysticism and suspense to the stage in an unprecedented way.

This late autumn's premiere at Lilla Teatern is The History of Violence. It is based on the first two novels by the French bestselling author Édouard Louis, Getting Rid of Eddy Bellegueule (2014) and The History of Violence (Histoire de la violence, 2016)