A summer-long cultural surge is set to energize Veresegyház as Mézesvölgyi Nyár returns from June to August with the biggest multidisciplinary open-air festival in Pest County. The buzzing outdoor stage on Búcsú Square (Búcsú tér) hosts a packed lineup of hit plays, blockbuster concerts, and family favorites designed to pull in everyone from teens to grandparents. Expect marquee actors, beloved titles, and the kind of warm-night magic that makes a festival summer feel endless.
Where and When
Venue: 2112 Veresegyház, Búcsú Square (Búcsú tér). The season opens June 21, 2026, and rolls through August, with near-nightly theater, music, and special events spanning comedy, drama, musicals, and kids’ shows.
June Highlights
June 21 blasts off with a Charlie concert: Horváth Charlie, the unmistakable titan of Hungarian pop, brings smoky blues, sassy jazz, and real-deal rock to Veresegyház. Get ready to sing along to evergreen hits from Ice with Ice (Jég dupla jéggel) to Look to the Sky (Nézz az ég felé), songs entire generations still belt out in unison.
On June 24, István Mohácsi’s The French Pole Vault (Francia rúdugrás) throws six people into a stormy-night sex comedy. Three women, three men: a sextet in every sense. Roles shuffle, chemistry hijacks good intentions, and a know-it-all sex psychologist fuels the misunderstandings. After all the crossed wires and near-misses, we can only hope everything lands on its feet. Recommended 18+.
July: Comedies, Rock Opera, Modern Classics
July 3 brings Neil Simon’s Rumors (Pletykafészek), a two-part farce where all you need to do is sit back and watch scandal sprint through the upper crust while chaos multiplies the laughs.
On July 4, Stephen, the King (István, a király) thunders in as Hungary’s most successful rock opera returns in a monumental anniversary concert. Expect star singers from the original rock-opera universe, the virtuoso Crescendo Music Orchestra, and top-tier lighting, visuals, and animations. Moving set pieces and showy pyrotechnics turn the stage into a powerhouse of spectacle.
July 7 welcomes A Pál utcai fiúk (The Paul Street Boys) by László Dés – Péter Geszti – Krisztián Grecsó, reframed not as a kids’ tale but as a drama of very young people. The conflicts hit harder, pushed by contemporary sounds and lyrics, live acoustic textures, and the actors’ rhythmic creativity. Youthful energy and humor ride alongside the original’s cathartic message. The two-part musical staging returns July 8 as well.
On July 12, The Jungle Book (A dzsungel könyve) follows Mowgli, the boy who beats his enemies and hunts for happiness among the trees. It’s a heart-pinching, heartwarming essential about friendship and love—for kids and the kid-hearted.
July 15 lights up with Jeanie Linders’ Menopause The Musical (Menopauza). The change no one talks about—talked about loudly, honestly, and uproariously. It’s frank, funny, and gloriously relatable.
July 19, Péter Geszti detonates a summer set packed with Rapülők dance anthems, Jazz+Az funk, Gringó Sztár and Létvágy pop treats—live, heavily produced, humorous, and straight-talking.
World Premiere, West End Laughs, and Farce
July 21–22 mark the world premiere of You Rang, M’Lord? (Csengetett, Mylord?). TV-favorite characters spring to life onstage for two unforgettable nights in Veresegyház.
On July 26, Steven Moffat’s The Unfriend (Rém rendes vendég) arrives straight after a London West End smash. Peter and Debbie, a polite English couple, befriend Elsa, an American widow, on a cruise. Promises to visit usually fizzle—except this time. When Elsa rings their doorbell, the couple has already Googled too much, panic sets in, and they’re torn between manners and parental dread. Add a nosy neighbor, a police sergeant, and buckle in for a riot of a two-part comedy.
July 28 serves Not Now, Darling! (Ne most, Drágám!), a door-slamming London fur salon farce: love triangles, mink coats, scantily clad surprises, and garments flying out the window—all for unfiltered laughter.
July Finale: Swing and Sass
July 31 swings in with American Comedy (Amerikai komédia), a swing musical adapted from Károly Aszlányi’s 1930s hit. With book and lyrics by Attila Lőrinczy and music by award-winning Bálint Bársony, director Károly Peller delivers wall-to-wall humor, momentum, and big-band charm for every age.
August: Icons, Mysteries, Legends
August 1, Just One Dance (Csak egy tánc volt) – Pál Szécsi’s most beautiful songs glow beneath the stars. Voices: Zoltán Miller, Dénes Pál, Attila Serbán, and Sándor Nagy salute a timeless pop constellation.
August 5, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Az Ackroyd gyilkosság) sets Hercule Poirot’s “quiet” retirement in King’s Abbot ablaze with two baffling deaths. Artúr Kálid steps in as Poirot, with Szilveszter P. Szabó as Dr. James Sheppard in this tense Agatha Christie classic.
August 7, Lovers of Ancona (Anconai szerelmesek) returns as a music-packed comedy that’s become a national stage staple, fusing Italian commedia flair, Hungarian humor, and the 1970s’ most loved Italian hits.
August 8, Quimby headlines one of the festival’s standout concerts—signature sound, iconic tracks, and the kind of open-air electricity that makes memories stick.
August 11 revisits the beloved crew in Lovers of Ancona at Lake Balaton (Anconai szerelmesek a Balatonon). Twenty calendar years pass, but hearts freeze the moment in time. It’s the heat of 1989 as the Italian troupe journeys to Hungary in search of roots and rekindled loves, with the Balaton SZOT resort boss Békés steering the madness. Cue bel canto—Azzurro, Bella Ciao, Sono l’Italiano.
From Life Stories to Family Magic
August 15, One Life (Egy életem), a biographical stand-up night with Imre Csuja, shares modest, funny, warming tales: childhood under a director-mother, marathon days of four shows, wisdom from old masters, meeting his wife 40-plus years ago—and behind-the-scenes gems from Glass Tiger (Üvegtigris) and A Kind of America (Valami Amerika).
August 18, Over the Smudge Hill? (Túl a Maszat-hegyen?) flips order and chaos: in a world where smudge is rule and cleaning is havoc, Muhi Andris sets off to save friends from blots, dusters, and ruthless neat freaks. A vivid, tuneful trip for all ages where even vacuums don’t always pick the right side.
Grand Finales
August 22, The Sound of Music (A muzsika hangja) stages 1930s Austria: Maria brings joy, music, and courage into a captain’s home of seven children until history’s storm forces a family’s flight. A heart-rich, melody-bright choice for the whole clan.
August 26, Beautiful Summer Day (Szép nyári nap), the Neoton musical, lands in a 1970s youth work camp near the Yugoslav border—ironic, humorous, and pulsing with hits that never left Hungarian house parties, as beloved now as ABBA in this corner of the world. Decades later, we laugh—freely—at our past.
August 28, The Attic (A Padlás), half-fairytale, half-musical, for ages 9 to 99, brings ghosts and humans together in a secret attic to speak of friendship, faith, and the power of dreams.
August 29 wraps with Not a Ragged Life – Restitched (Nem rongyos élet – újravarrva), an operetta gala where stage giants and operetta stars team up again to prove a national treasure truly belongs to everyone. New faces, old favorites, same unbridled joy on the Mézesvölgyi Nyár stage.
