{"id":8523,"date":"2026-05-29T00:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdammagazine.com\/?p=8523"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:41:46","slug":"vondelpark-open-air-theater-open-public-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/vondelpark-openluchttheater-weer-open-publiek\/","title":{"rendered":"Vondelpark Open Air Theatre open all weekends again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Open Air Theater in the Vondelpark is the hotspot of the summer. Every weekend you will find special performances of music, theater, dance and cabaret in the green heart of the park. Free shows and concerts by famous artists and young talent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All performances in the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Vondelpark Open Air Theatre<\/span>\u00a0are freely accessible. This keeps the Vondelpark Open Air Theater the most accessible theater of Amsterdam. Director Frans de Vries: \u201cWe are there for the audience that cannot or does not always want to buy a ticket and for the artists who have yet to make their first big appearance. That makes our program special: on our stage emerging talent stands next to established names, for an audience of a hundred thousand people each summer. That doesn't happen anywhere else like this in Amsterdam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86181\" title=\"vondelpark-open air theater6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater6.jpg\" alt=\"vondelpark-open air theater6\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater6.jpg 1700w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater6-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater6-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater6-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater6-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater6-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Program<\/strong><br \/>\nThe summer program follows the regular weekly schedule: Friday evening dance, Saturday afternoon family theater, Saturday evening comedy, Sunday morning classical and Sunday afternoon (pop) music. The program includes comedians Rayen Panday, Martijn Koning and Esther van der Voort, on classical Sunday morning the 50-piece Ying Wa Symphonic Band from Hong Kong and the finalists of the Grachtenfestival Conservatory Competition. Programmed for Saturday's family theater include \u2018About a Little Mole Who Wants to Know Who Pooped on His Head\u2019 (Mr. Monster) and \u2018Skeleton\u2019 (Big People).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86180\" title=\"vondelpark-open air theater7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater7.jpg\" alt=\"vondelpark-open air theater7\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater7.jpg 1700w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater7-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater7-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater7-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater7-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/vondelpark-openluchttheater7-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday and Sunday afternoons will feature music in the park including Jungle by Night, Vokall Live with Alain Clark and Isabel van Gelder. Other famous names sharing the city's most beautiful stage this summer include Kor Hoebe, Raoul Heertje, Julidans, Martijn Koning, Jordaan Fest, Dries Roelvink and Kwaku Downtown. The full program is on the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openluchttheater.nl\/agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outdoor theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New this year: the famous Amsterdam chocolate and ice cream shop Van Soest will open a summer pop-up in the Open Air Caf\u00e9 with artisanal scoop ice cream. Starting in June, the Open Air Caf\u00e9 will be open during all program days. Proceeds from consumptions will benefit the theater.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Air Theater in the Vondelpark is the hotspot of the summer. Every weekend you will find special performances of music, theater, dance and cabaret in the green heart of the park. Free performances and concerts by famous artists and young talent. All performances in the Vondelpark Open Air Theater are free of charge. This keeps the Vondelpark Open Air Theatre the ... <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/vondelpark-openluchttheater-weer-open-publiek\/\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10974],"district":[14],"class_list":["post-8523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultuur","tag-voorstellingen-amsterdam","district-amsterdam-zuid"],"acf":{"slider":[8525],"fotograaf":"","editor":"","video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GADiBcUALTU?si=Rt4P9z5Ey99xKFcN","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"Bekende artiesten en jong talent op het podium in het Vondelpark","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"cord_A":"4.8725491","cord_B":"52.3588283","introductie_tekst":"Nu de zon zich weer regelmatig laat zien en de stad langzaam opwarmt, trekken de Amsterdammers weer en masse naar de parken. Traditiegetrouw opent het Vondelpark Openluchttheater iedere zomerseizoen haar deuren voor een nieuwe zomer vol verrassende voorstellingen en concerten. Iedere vrijdag, zaterdag en zondag vind je op het podium in de openlucht meer dan 100 muziekoptredens, dans, cabaret en jeugdtheater.","rubriek":"Locatie","locatie_event":null,"naam_locatie":"Vondelpark Openluchttheater","adres":"Vondelpark 5","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/www.openluchttheater.nl","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86209,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions\/86209"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}