Oslo Nye Teater is a theater located in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

, Norway. The theater has its main stage in its own theater house at Rosenkrantz' gate 10. It is one of

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

's most visited

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

s. Oslo Nye Teater AS is wholly owned by Oslo Municipality.

History

The theater opened as Det Nye Teater on February 26, 1929. Architects

Gudolf Blakstad Gudolf Blakstad (19 May 1893 – 22 November 1985) was a Norwegian architect. He was noted for his work in the transition between neo-classicism and functionalism in Norwegian architecture. Biography Blakstad was born in Gjerpen, Norway. He ...

(1893–1985) and Jens Dunker (1898–1984) were engaged to design the building resulting in a concrete building in a simplified neoclassical style. In 1994–1995, a thorough upgrade of the audience area in the theater building was carried out under the direction of the architects

Kristin Jarmund . Kristin Jarmund (born 26 September 1954) is a Norwegian architect. Education, carieer and awards Jarmund is a graduate of the Norwegian Technical University in Trondheim (Norwegian Institute of Technology) and the Architectural Association S ...

and Ola Helle. In September 1959, Oslo Nye Teater resulted from a merge between

Folketeatret Folketeateret is a theatre in Oslo, Norway. The building has been used as a movie theatre and as an opera house. The theatre has 1,400 seats. History The theatre itself operated from 1952 to 1959, but the institution has a much longer history. ...

and Det Nye Teater. Folketeatret had operated independently since 1952. The operation of Oslo Nye Centralteatret was taken over by Oslo Nye Teater in 1971. Oslo Nye Teater now operates from four stages; Oslo Nye Hovedscenen, Oslo Nye Centralteatret, Oslo Nye Trikkestallen and Oslo Nye Teaterkjeller’n.

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Oslo Nye Teater (Norwegian only)
Theatres in Oslo Theatres completed in 1959 1959 establishments in Norway {{Norway-theat-struct-stub