Tampere Theatre performing Blood Brothers - 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. At first, plays put on by the Tampere Theatre were staged in various temporary premises. Then in 1913, an impressive new theatre was completed in the centre of the city. The Theatre´s main stage is still located in this building. Today the Tampere Theatre has three stages: The Main Stage, the Theatre Café stage and the Frenckell Theatre, which is situated beside the Satakunta-Bridge and was opened in 1982.