2026’s open-air theater season is set to light up Veresegyház from June through August as Mézesvölgyi Nyár returns to Búcsú tér with Pest County’s largest cross-arts festival. Expect smash-hit plays, powerhouse casts, big-name concerts, and family shows under the summer sky—all built for warm nights, laughter, and goosebumps. The organizers promise a full spectrum of genres, from farce to musical, blues to pop, with shows rolling out all season long at 2112 Veresegyház, Búcsú tér.
Charlie opens the summer
2026.06.21. — Charlie concert
Hungarian pop-rock legend Horváth Charlie kicks off the festival with that unmistakable grit: smoky blues, swaggering jazz, and homegrown rock woven into the magic of Veresegyház evenings. Eternal singalongs like Jég dupla jéggel and Nézz az ég felé will ring out as generations join in with the artist. It’s a living jukebox of Hungarian pop memory—raw, raspy, and full-hearted.
Neil Simon’s social spiral
2026.07.03. — Neil Simon: Pletykafészek (Rumors) — farce in two acts
Lean back and watch gossip do its chaotic work. Neil Simon’s perfectly timed farce drops us into the upper crust as its most polished members slip on every comedic banana peel imaginable. What starts as whispers spirals into a social meltdown where status is no shield against sheer ridiculousness.
Ferenc Molnár recharged
2026.07.07. — László Dés – Péter Geszti – Krisztián Grecsó: A Pál utcai fiúk (The Paul Street Boys)
This classic isn’t played by children but by young adults, turning conflicts tougher and more combustible. Contemporary sounds and lyrics sharpen the drama, while the acoustic world of objects, the actors’ musical-rhythmic playfulness, youth’s force and humor, and the original’s cathartic message do the heavy lifting. It’s tradition reimagined with pulse and punch.
2026.07.08. — A Pál utcai fiúk — musical in two acts
The twin staging keeps the musical energy high: rawer clashes, modern arrangements, hands-on acoustic textures, and the cast’s creative spark. The heartbeat is the same—the fight for honor, loyalty, and a patch of ground that becomes everything.
Heart in the canopy
2026.07.12. — A dzsungel könyve (The Jungle Book)
Mowgli, the boy raised by the wild, stares down his enemies and searches for joy with his new family beneath thick leaves. A can’t-miss, heart-squeezing, heartwarming tale of friendship and love—for kids and the grown-ups who still are.
Loud, honest, hilariously human
2026.07.15. — Jeanie Linders: Menopauza (Menopause) — musical
That certain chapter arrives in every woman’s life—some hide it, others laugh it off. Jeanie Linders’ world-famous musical does both loudly, honestly, and with riotous humor. Expect bangers, belly laughs, and the relief of being seen.
Geszti turns up the joy
2026.07.19. — Péter Geszti concert
The frontman of positive energy fires up a summer set packed with Rapülők stadium-shakers, Jazz+Az funk, Gringo Sztár twists, and Létvágy pop treats. Live band, big production, witty lines, and straight-talking lyrics—feel-good with bite.
From screen to stage: a world premiere
2026.07.22. — Csengetett, Mylord? (You Rang, M’Lord?) — world premiere
Widowed Lord Meldrum lives the gilded life of 1920s London with his brother, mother-in-law, and two daughters. Below stairs, the cook, valet, butler, and maid are just as colorful as their employers. The beloved TV comedy of upstairs-downstairs contrasts now hits the stage, with cult characters pursuing money, romance, and mischief with equal passion.
Beware the nicest guest
2026.07.26. — Steven Moffat: Rém rendes vendég (The Unfriend) — comedy in two acts
Peter and Debbie, a sweet, polite English couple, befriend American widow Elsa on a cruise. Addresses are exchanged, promises made—and this time, kept. Elsa rings their doorbell one day. By then, the internet has told them things that freeze their blood. They don’t want her near their two teenagers, but they also can’t bring themselves to be rude. Cue storm-level farce, with a nosy neighbor and a police sergeant stirring the pot. Fresh from a West End hit to Budapest’s Játékszín and now Veresegyház, the frightfully nice guest arrives.
Fur, flirt, and flying clothes
2026.07.28. — Ne most, drágám! (Not Now, Darling) — comedy
Love triangles, mink coats, scantily clad surprises, and garments soaring out of windows—total mayhem inside London’s swankiest fur salon. This one is engineered purely for unclouded fun.
Italy by way of the ’70s
2026.08.07. — Anconai szerelmesek (Lovers of Ancona) — musical comedy
For twenty years, this has been one of Hungary’s most-performed comedies. It fuses the finest traditions of Italian marketplace farce with classic Hungarian humor and the catchiest Italian hits of the 1970s. Sun-soaked, song-driven, and gloriously cheeky.
Then they all went to the lake
2026.08.11. — Anconai szerelmesek a Balatonon (Lovers of Ancona at Lake Balaton) — musical comedy
Two decades after miracles reunited lost siblings and sealed three or four marriages, the calendar moves but hearts stay put. It’s the warm, wonder-hungry summer of 1989, and the whole Italian troupe—softer bellies, silvering hair, teen kids—heads to Hungary seeking roots, old-new loves, calm, and happiness. They find plenty, helped along by Békés, the head of a Balaton SZOT resort. The bel canto flows: Azzurro, Bella Ciao, Sono l’italiano…
One life, many stages
2026.08.15. — Egy életem — biographical stand-up with Imre Csuja
Imre Csuja tells his story the way we know him: modestly, funnily, and with warmth. He talks about his mother directing him as a child, those first hard years onstage, playing four shows in a single day, lessons from the great elders, and meeting his wife more than 40 years ago. Of course, legendary films like Üvegtigris (Glass Tiger) and Valami Amerika (A Kind of America) surface, with tiny behind-the-scenes secrets to savor.
Operetta, rewoven
2026.08.29. — Nem rongyos élet — újravarrva | operetta gala
A promise made, now overdelivered. If you remember last year’s roaring night when straight-theater giants and operetta stars danced the csárdás together on the Mézesvölgyi Nyár stage, this year blows past it. Expect a sparkling restitch of favorites, bigger and bolder.
The organizers reserve the right to change dates and programs.
