Amsterdamse Bostheater

Bosfest 2026

Foto van Bosfest voorstelling met links het publiek en rechts de voorstelling NOODKEET

A theatre festival in the heart of the Amsterdamse Bos

Entrance tickets for Bosfest 2026 are now on sale!

The third edition of Bosfest will take place from August 11 to 22, 2026. For two weeks, from Tuesday through Saturday evening.

For ten evenings, Bosfest settles deep in the Amsterdamse Bos. Intimate theatre, hidden among roots and leaves. Here, it challenges, explores, and sharpens everything. Theatre in the broadest sense of the word—raw, intimate, musical, physical, and sometimes uncomfortably close.

Bosfest celebrates its third edition in 2026. You’re allowed to know—but please don’t spread the word. The number of tickets is limited, and we’d like to keep it that way, because Bosfest should remain a hidden gem. No large-scale festival in a manicured park, no red carpet with champagne. This is theatre for those willing to make an effort. Cycle out of the city in search of something you won’t find anywhere else. With the forest not as a backdrop, but as the main character.

You start and end at the Festival Heart of the Bostheater: a place with a spacious terrace, bar, campfire, and food prepared with care. Everything comes together here—before you return to the inhabited world.

Bosfest is made possible in part by Performing Arts Fund NL, Stichting Boslab, the Municipality of Amsterdam, the Municipality of Amstelveen, and Het Amsterdamse Bostheater. Read more about Stichting Boslab here.

Entrance tickets Bosfest 2026 Block diagram Bosfest 2026

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Bezoekers Bosfest lopen naar een voorstelling in het bos
Bosfest sfeerfoto publiek
Sfeerbeeld Bosfest 2025
Bezoekers Bosfest tijdens een voorstelling
Sfeerbeeld Bosfest 2025

“Bosfest offers theatre by emerging makers in a pleasant setting: the forest. The forms are highly diverse, ranging from immersive theatre and a pop parody to a traditional peep box.”
— NRC

“The forest as a backdrop remains sublime… Bosfest in the Amsterdamse Bos is an excellent festival for summer evenings.”
— Het Parool

“Small-scale theatre at the atmospheric Bosfest. No fewer than ten different productions can be seen at Bosfest, which supports young theatre makers, and the prices are very audience-friendly.”
— Scènes