Mézesvölgyi Summer 2026 lights up Veresegyház: open-air plays, concerts, family shows, world premieres, and comedy under the stars June–August. Big names, bigger nights at Pest County’s top festival.
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Veresegyház’s open-air theater season returns in style as Mézesvölgyi Nyár (Mézesvölgyi Summer), Pest County’s biggest multi-arts festival, takes over Búcsú tér from June through August 2026. Expect blockbuster plays, live concerts, family favorites, and fresh premieres, all staged under the summer sky with a powerhouse lineup of actors and musicians. The organizers promise a mix of genres and moods—boisterous comedies, heart-tugging stories, and concerts spanning smoky blues to arena-scale pop—crafted for long, golden evenings when the city’s buzz meets theater magic.
2026.06.21. — Charlie concert. Hungarian pop-rock icon Horváth Charlie brings his unmistakable voice and vibe to launch the festival. It’s a heady cocktail: gritty blues, swaggering jazz, and pure Hungarian rock threaded through those evergreen anthems everyone belts along to, from Jég dupla jéggel to Nézz az ég felé. A summer night in Veresegyház set to live, smoke, and soar.
2026.06.24. — Mohácsi István: Francia rúdugrás (Pole Vault) (18+). Three women, three men—call it a sextet—with roles flipping through a stormy night where chemistry, confusion, and one all-knowing sex therapist turn everything inside out. At first, it’s obvious who belongs to whom. Then misunderstandings pile up, lines blur, and only hope remains that by dawn, desire and decency find a truce.
2026.07.03. — Neil Simon: Pletykafészek (Rumors) — farce in two acts. Sit back and watch rumors sprint from room to room while the upper crust trip over their own missteps. It’s delicious chaos served with high-society panic and Neil Simon’s whiplash timing.
2026.07.07. — Dés László – Geszti Péter – Grecsó Krisztián: A Pál utcai fiúk (The Paul Street Boys). This classic doesn’t stage children so much as young adults, sharpening the conflicts and hardening the edges. Contemporary music and lyrics intensify the drama, while the show leans into acoustic, onstage sound-making, the actors’ rhythmic invention, youthful humor, and the source novel’s cathartic charge.
2026.07.08. — A Pál utcai fiúk — musical in two parts. A second night to catch the same electric concept: higher stakes, modern sound, palpable energy.
2026.07.12. — A dzsungel könyve (The Jungle Book). Mowgli—the boy who faces down enemies and hunts for happiness among thick leaves and newfound family. A can’t-miss tale, as aching as it is warming, about friendship and love for kids and the young at heart alike.
2026.07.15. — Jeanie Linders: Menopauza — musical. Every woman gets there, some whispering, others laughing it off. This global hit belts the truth—loud, honest, outrageously funny—turning the Change into a standing-ovation confession booth.
2026.07.19. — Geszti Péter concert. Expect stadium-shaking Rapülők dance bangers, Jazz+Az funk, Gringó Sztár and Létvágy pop sweets—served live with big-stage visuals, humor, and candid lyrics. Pure serotonin.
2026.07.21. and 2026.07.22. — Csengetett, Mylord? (You Rang, M’Lord?) — world premiere. The TV cult lands on stage in Veresegyház, with beloved characters resurrected for a summer night of nostalgia, snappy gags, and bell-ringing mayhem. Don’t miss this curtain-up moment.
2026.07.26. — Steven Moffat: Rém Rendes Vendég (The Unfriend) — comedy in two acts. Peter and Debbie, impeccable English politeness personified, befriend an American widow, Elsa, on a cruise. Later, the doorbell rings: Elsa’s here—and the internet suggests she might be monstrous. Let her in? Keep her out? Add two teenagers, a meddling neighbor, and a police sergeant, and the farce goes thermonuclear. Fresh off London’s West End, now storming Budapest’s Játékszín (Playhouse)—and Veresegyház for a summer spin.
2026.07.28. — Ne most, Drágám! (Not Now, Darling!) — comedy. Love triangles, mink coats, underdressed ladies, garments flying out of windows—total bedlam inside London’s swankiest fur salon. Unapologetically engineered for laughter.
2026.08.01. — Csak egy tánc volt (It Was Just One Dance) — the greatest songs of Szécsi Pál (Pál Szécsi). Some voices never leave us. Under the night sky, one of Hungarian pop’s brightest fixed stars flickers back to life through Zoltán Miller (Miller Zoltán), Dénes Pál (Pál Dénes), Attila Serbán (Serbán Attila), and Sándor Nagy (Nagy Sándor).
2026.08.05. — Az Ackroyd gyilkosság (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) — crime. Hercule Poirot retreats to sleepy King’s Abbott—and immediately faces two inexplicable deaths. Artúr Kálid (Kálid Artúr) steps into Poirot’s razor-sharp shoes, with Szilveszter Szabó P. (Szabó P. Szilveszter) as Dr. James Sheppard, in a taut Agatha Christie classic.
2026.08.07. — Anconai szerelmesek (Lovers of Ancona) — musical comedy. For two decades, one of Hungary’s most-performed comedies: Italian marketplace slapstick meets homegrown humor, powered by the 1970s’ most hummable Italian hits.
2026.08.11. — Anconai szerelmesek a Balatonon (Lovers of Ancona at Lake Balaton) — musical comedy. Twenty calendar years later, hearts stuck in time: the whole Italian troupe heads to Hungary in the warm, wonder-seeking summer of 1989, chasing roots, rekindled love, and calm. Cue the SZOT resort’s wily manager, Comrade Békés, and a soundtrack from Azzurro and Bella Ciao to Sono l’italiano.
2026.08.15. — Egy életem — biographical stand-up with Imre Csuja (Csuja Imre). Modest, funny, and warming: childhood stories, grinding early years, four shows in a single day, lessons from legends, and meeting the love of his life over 40 years ago. Plus behind-the-scenes gems from Glass Tiger (Üvegtigris) and A Kind of America (Valami Amerika).
2026.08.18. — Túl a Maszat-hegyen (Beyond Smudge Mountain) — comedy musical. A topsy-turvy world where mess is order and cleaning breeds chaos. Muhi Andris sets out to save friends from the realm of splats, dusters, and terrifying neat freaks. Color-splashed, musically sticky, and joy-forward—for little ones and big kids at heart. Even the vacuum cleaners might be villains.
2026.08.29. — Nem rongyos élet — újravarrva (Not a Ragged Life — Restitched) — operetta gala. Last summer’s operetta-meets-drama blowout gets topped. New faces, old favorites: the crème of the Hungarian stage proves again that operetta—our cultural heirloom—belongs to everyone.
The organizers reserve the right to change dates and programs.
