The attractive little building on Szent István körút, roughly halfway between the Danube and Nyugati tér, is where comedies (including Shakespearean ones in translation) and musicals are staged. When it was built in 1896, it was criticised for being too far out of town.
Comedy Theatre
Budapest
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