PINK GARDEN to Enchant All of Loyly by BWW News Desk
- June 21, 2019 Dust off your sundresses and other garden party garments as Loyly gets transformed into a luscious pink garden on Fridays in the summertime.
Review and Photos: FOMO by Ryhmisnuoret, the Youth of The Group Theatre by Rosanna Liuski
- June 02, 2019 All in all, FOMO was a great show and the actors' work in this was anything but lazy. The storyline focuses on the variance of the happenings of the life of the youth that actually deepening into any of them intensively, which is a good choise. The Youth of the Group theatre enjoy being on a stage without a doubt, and so they're enjoyable to watch too!
Review and Photos: VILJA ANDAS at The Swedish Theatre Of Helsinki by Rosanna Liuski
- May 29, 2019 All in all Vilja Andas is an informative performance that speaks on important topics, for example how ill must someone be mentally before they are valid to get help? The music fits well to the way of the storytelling. The songs are highly enjoyable and the scenes are touching at their best.
Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri Ja ShedHelsinki Entistä Tiiviimpään Yhteistyöhön by BWW News Desk
- May 27, 2019 Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri tiivistaa yhteistyotaan monimuotoista ja erityislapset huomioivaa lapsi- ja nuorisotyota tukevan ShedHelsinki Saation kanssa. ShedHelsingin uusi, joulukuussa 2019 ensi-iltaan tuleva musiikkiteatterituotanto harjoitellaan ja toteutetaan Helsingin Kaupunginteatterissa.
SKENE, a musical theatre school for youth: interview with Jermo Grudstrom and Anna Paivaniemi by Rosanna Liuski
- May 22, 2019 Skene is a musical theatre school for youngsters and teenagers. Its founders are Marco Bjurstrom and Sinikka Sokka: in 2006 they realised there's hardly any chances for youth to study and do musical theatre. Now there is and this year's show The Addams Family was directed by Jermo Grudstrom, whom I got to interview after the premiere 15.5. He's also continuing next year as a director and acting coach in the group. With us sat also Anna Paivaniemi, who is a student but also works as a dance captain in the group.
Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Goes Finely Right at Turku City Theatre by Rosanna Liuski
- April 11, 2019 Things fall of, stage men and women hustle on the stage that's not even ready yet. The play had a good intro with the giggly, proud 'director' Teemu Aromaa. He also made a cameo role as the detective in the play they performed to us.
Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri lisää Koillis-Helsingin taide- ja kulttuuritarjontaa Valokeilassa Koillinen -hankkeessa by BWW News Desk
- March 28, 2019 Valokeilassa Koillinen toteutetaan Tapulikaupungin, Suutarilan, Siltamaen, Puistolan ja Tapanilan kaupunginosissa vuosina 2019-2021, ja siina ovat Helsingin Kaupunginteatterin lisaksi mukana Zodiak-Uuden tanssin keskus, Pohjois-Helsingin Bandikoulu ja Teatteri Tuike. Hankkeen keskiossa on vuorovaikutus alueen asukkaiden ja hankkeen valilla. Valokeilassa Koillinen kutsuu kaikki alueen asukkaat osallistumaan taidetoimintaan ei pelkastaan katsojina vaan myos tekijoina. Toimijat yhdessa ja erikseen jalkautuvat tyoskentelemaan asuinymparistoihin lahelle asukkaiden arkea, ulos perinteisista teatteri- ja esitystiloista. Hanke on osa Helsingin mallia, joka kuuluu kaupungin kulttuurin ja vapaa-ajan toimialaan.
62 Singers To Take Part In The Prestigious Mirjam Helin Competition by BWW News Desk
- March 16, 2019 Sixty-two singers out of 475 applicants have been chosen to take part in the VIII Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition. They represent 22 nationalities. The largest number of competitors is from South Korea (20), followed by the USA (6), Russia (5), Finland (4), Germany (3) and Ukraine (3).
Review and Photos: HAMLET reflects and breathes without an effort at the Turku City Theatre by Rosanna Liuski
- March 15, 2019 Westerberg knows how to fill space and time just at the right time so that nothing leaves hanging. In big scenes (the golfing-scene) as in small details (Hamlet and their friends are hearing something and Hamlet turns around in a full circle, his friends just in a half one).
Review and Photos: The Loud and Distinctive CHERRY ORCHARD at the Helsinki City Theatre by Rosanna Liuski
- March 08, 2019 The Cherry Orchard at the Helsinki City theatre is distinctive and loud in various ways. The madame is so perky, coming to the surroundings of her traumas, yet she doesn't want to deal with the things that haunt her. Only when the future is glaring at the horizon she runs inside, becoming like a stone at the feet of things not processed.
Review: MAKING OF LEA at KOM-theatre by Rosanna Liuski
- February 26, 2019 Text and directing Juha Hurme. Set Design Matti Rasi, Costume Design Anne Kotola, Make-Up Leila Makynen, Lighting Design Tomi Suovankoski, Sound Design Jani Rapo, Music Petra Poutanen-Hurme. On Stage Paavo Kinnunen, Jarkko Lahti, Vilma Melasniemi, Sara Melleri, Juho Milonoff ja Eeva Soivio.
Review: HARRIET at the Group Theatre by Rosanna Liuski
- February 15, 2019 The beginning is beautifully harmonious: there is white, black and light yellow in tender different shades. White in clothes and the walls, black in boots and in the decorations of the piano. The candles beam yellow light in which everything basks.
Lauri Maijala: MEANINGFUL THEATRE ARISES FROM ARTISTS' OWN THEMES AND TOPICS, a BroadwayWorld Finland interview by Rosanna Liuski
- February 10, 2019 Lauri Maijala is currently directing Chekhov's classic at the Helsinki City Theatre, The Cherry Orchard (Kirsikkatarha), which is premiering 26 of February. Lauri is undoubtedly a very keen and intelligent in terms of theatre and life itself. The world needs more individual thinkers who are ready to tell the truth they see-- whether in theatre or outside of it.