The city’s puppet theatre, which usually doesn’t require fluency in Hungarian, presents shows designed for children at 10am or 10.30am and 3pm. Consult the theatre’s website for program schedules.
VI Andrássy út 69, Budapest
Phone: +36 1 342 2702, +36 1 342 8341, Email: bubab@hdsnet.hu
The Comedy Theatre of Budapest. Starting in the turn of the 19th and 20th century as an opposition to the conservative National Theatre, it became a pioneer institution of Hungarian drama, and one of the oldest theatres still in operation.
Szent István körút 14, Budapest
Phone: +36 1 329-23-40
Neo-Renaissance opera house located in central Budapest. It is home to the Budapest Opera Ball, a society event dating back to 1886
22 Andrássy út, Budapest
Phone: +36 1 331 2550, Email: info@opera.hu
Ballet, contemporary dance, folk dance, and eurhythmics are all to be found in the repertoire of the National Dance Theatre (Nemzeti Táncszínház). The most highly acclaimed Hungarian and foreign dancers perform here.
District I, Színház u. 1-3, Budapest
Phone: +36 1 201 4407, Email: info@nemzetitancszinhaz.hu
The main theatre of Budapest, and the largest such institution in Hungary, opening originally in 1837.
Bajor Gizi park 1, Budapest
Phone: +36 1 354 1777, Email: szervezes@nemzetiszinhaz.hu