Tampere Theatre

Tampere Theatre is one of the oldest theatres in Finland. Kaarle Halme, a pioneer of dramatic art, founded the Tampere Theatre with the help of the city´s businessmen and indrustrialists in 1904.

Altogether the theatre will hold about 800 spectators. Unlike several other Finnish theatres, which were started by amateur groups the Tampere Theatre is a private company and has functioned as a professional theatre from the start. The company´s repertoire is versatile and artistically of a high level. It stages a wide range of musicals, Finnish plays, world classics and modern premieres. Annually, over 130 000 spectators attend some 500 performances in the Theatre and every year 8-10 plays have their premieres.The Theatre has approximately 130 employees, a third of them belonging to the artistic staff.