Sydney Fringe Festival Guide 2026

1—30 SEPTEMBER 2026

The City of Sydney is proud to partner with Sydney Fringe Festival 2026

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WELCOME

WELCOME Peta-Joy Williams, Green Faerie

The Sydney Fringe Festival acknowledges the many First Nations People throughout Australia and those who come to us from across the oceans. We are guided by the caretakers of Country, and the footprints they have left behind.

Sydney Fringe wishes to advise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that some content may contain images of deceased people/s. We also acknowledge that some languages may be spoken or read off country and may translate differently from place and space. Sydney Fringe means no offence in our Cultural practices.

Every September, Sydney becomes a city that says yes.

Yes to the artist with a strange idea and the nerve to stage it. Yes to the show in the back room of a pub, the warehouse, the converted shopfront, the room you’ve walked past a hundred times. Yes to audiences who’d rather be surprised than told what they already know.

PATRICK KENNEDY Chief Executive Officer

It starts in late August, when our Festival Garden throws open its gates, and on 29 August when Stanley Street becomes one big opening night party. It carries us through September and rolls on into the October school holidays with two weeks of Fringe Kids.

This year we have over 400 events across 64 venues. Curious shows in curious rooms, from jaw-dropping circus and acrobatics in the Festival Garden to powerful First Nations work staged right across the Festival and all at a price that won’t make you think twice.

The Sydney Fringe is NSW’s largest independent arts festival, and every event on the program is here because an artist backed themselves and made something new. That spirit of independence is the whole point: Fringe is where careers begin, where forms get bent, and where the work that doesn’t fit anywhere else finally finds a room and an audience.

In a year when making art independently has rarely been harder, this Festival is our loud and unmissable argument that this work matters and that the artists who make it deserve real backing. But an argument needs an audience. So this is also our invitation to you, Sydney: pull up a chair, take a risk, and be part of it. The best nights this city has only truly happen when you’re in the room.

Come and be surprised. Your most curious night of the year is waiting in a room you’ve never been to.

Curiosity starts here.

Because that’s the promise of Fringe. Take a punt on something you’ve never heard of, in a venue you didn’t know existed, and watch your curiosity pay off. It always does here.

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WELCOME MAREE TAYLOR Chair, Sydney Fringe Seventeen years ago we had an idea for a new festival in the Inner West. Today we’re NSW’s largest independent arts festival and have never been more ambitious.

Join us as we paint the city pink again with shows that knock you sideways, a performance in an unexpected place, or a hub buzzing into the night. With more than 3,000 artists across our hubs, a full family program, headline events, and hidden gems tucked into every corner of the city, there is something to thrill everyone.

To our partners, artists, and audiences, thank you for making it all possible.

THE HON. STEPHEN KAMPER, MP

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This year we have over 400 events across 64 venues.

Curious shows in curious rooms, from jaw-dropping circus and acrobatics in the Festival Garden to powerful First Nations work staged right across the Festival and all at a price that won’t make you think twice.

Minister for Jobs and Tourism

Patrick Kennedy, Sydney Fringe CEO

On behalf of the NSW Government, I’m delighted to welcome you to the 2026 Sydney Fringe Festival.

Contents

Sydney Fringe is one of the nation’s largest independent arts festivals and a signature event in the state’s cultural calendar.

How To Fringe

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Find Your Fringe

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Fringe IGNITE! Opening Party

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First Nations at Fringe

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Limitless

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Fringe Reviewer Lab

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The Avant Garde Explorer

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The Arts Champion

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Lord Mayor of Sydney

The Culture Seeker

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Fringe is a time when Sydney comes alive with independent artists, producers, venue managers, cultural leaders, and festival goers. We all come together to share the abundant creativity and culture of our international city.

The Night Out Crew

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Inner City Neighbourhood

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Inner West Neighbourhood

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Eastern Neighbourhood

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Northern Neighbourhood

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Southern Neighbourhood

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Western Neighbourhood

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Artist Spotlight: Claire Robin

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Staff Picks

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My Fringe Picks

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Cultural events like Sydney Fringe define our city as a place where art and creativity is nurtured and celebrated. It creates a buzz around the city, with people coming out to catch a show that not only supports the arts but also thousands of businesses and jobs across the entire ecosystem of our creative, nighttime and visitor economies.

I hope you enjoy Sydney Fringe Festival 2026 and I invite you to make the most of your time in Sydney by exploring its unique blend of vibrant culture and natural wonder.

CLOVER MOORE AO

This is the 17th year the City of Sydney has sponsored the Sydney Fringe Festival.

We do so proudly because Fringe provides a vital launching pad for many first-time artists as well as colour and delight to our streets and theatres, with performances activating new and surprising spaces.

It takes a village of talented artists and producers working long days and nights behind-the-scenes to bring this, NSW’s biggest independent arts festival together so on behalf of the City, I thank and congratulate Patrick Kennedy and the Fringe team on yet another exciting festival program.

The Sydney Fringe Festival plays an important role in our creative sector ecology and is always a highlight of our cultural calendar, so I hope you’re delighted, entertained, and challenged as you enjoy your Fringe experience this year!

FRINGEDEX Cabaret & Musical Theatre

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Circus

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MAYOR DARCY BYRNE

Comedy

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Mayor, Inner West Council

Experimental

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The Inner West is proud to support Sydney Fringe Festival for another year.

Dance

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The Festival is a hub for independent arts and culture in NSW. Our partnership highlights the area’s role in nurturing creative communities and hosting festival operations.

As a founding partner of Sydney Fringe Festival, we are proud to see the festival grow over the past 17 years to become the largest independent arts festival in NSW. And we’re proud of the active role we play, including hosting the festival offices at Marrickville Town Hall and running the Creative Town Halls program featuring free performances.

The community and council wish the festival a successful and spectacular 2026 season.

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Events & Parties

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Immersive & Interactive

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Fringe Kids

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Visual Art, Design & Talks

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Music

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Theatre

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Partners

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Thank You

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HOW TO FRINGE How to Book Tickets

Access at Sydney Fringe

The easiest way to book ticke ts is online at sydneyfringe.com.

If you require assistance book ing you can email our Box Office team at boxoffice @sydney fringe.com, or by phone on 02 7813 4527. Our standard operating hours are 10AM – 4PM, Monday to Friday.

Exchanging Tickets Can’t make a performance date anymore? We have you covered. Log in to your Sydn ey Fringe Festival account online, or via the app, and you can exchange your tickets to a new perform ance date of the same show.

Sydney Fringe is committed to increasing accessibility.

There are a wide range of even ts across the Festival with a variety of access provisions including Limitless, our dedicated program showcasin g d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists.

Accessible Performances Within this printed program, shows that are broadly accessible are indic ated with access symbols outlined below. Further information on specific access provisions and Aural and Visu al ratings can be found at sydneyfringe.com. Visit the ‘Buy tickets’ page on our website where you can search by accessibility tags.

Fees

Physical Access

A Booking Fee of $4.60 per book ing applies to all transactions made over the phon e, in person, or via the Sydney Fringe website or app.

Sydney Fringe takes place in independently run spaces all over the city. Accessibility varies from venue to venue. Check sydneyfringe.com /accessibility for the latest information or call us on 02 7813 4527 for more information.

Events ticketed by external part ies, including Fringe Comedy events at the Factory Theatre, and events at the Old Fitz Theatre, will incu r different fees.

For full Ticketing Terms and Con ditions please visit sydneyfringe.com.

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Wheelchair Access Wheelchair Accessible & Gen der Neutral Bathrooms Relaxed Performance

Access and Inclusion Booking

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Access bookings can be mad e online via our website.

Just let us know of any requirem ents you have at checkout. You can also contact our Box Office by email or phone for assistance.

If you are booking on the day of the session, we recommend contacting us direc tly to advise us of your requirements.

Teletypewriter (TTY) Users: phon e 133 677 and ask for 02 7813 4527. Speak and Listen users: phone 1300 555 727 and ask for 02 7813 4527.

Companion Cards Sydney Fringe Festival proudly accepts Companion Cards to all performances. For guests who require assistance of a companion or carer, a second ticket is issued at no cost to the Com panion Card holder.

Contact our box office to book .

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INTRODUCING FRINGE PASS

Audio Description

Become a Fringe-fan and grab

First Nations Artist

a Fringe Pass:

Fringe Pass

3 SHOWS FOR $75 4 SHOWS FOR $90 5 SHOWS FOR $100

Limitless Program

Look for the Fringe Pass sym bol in the Fringedex to see eligible show s.

Award Winner

Visit sydneyfringe.com/fringepa ss and see more for less.

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FIND YOUR FRINGE Not sure where to start? Start here!

I want to attend Fringe...

Solo or in a pair

With a group

I’m looking...

For an intimate setting

Give me...

To get lost in the crowd

I want to...

Be surprised

City nights

Bright lights

I crave...

Be inspired

I want to discover...

Arts and connection

I prefer...

Glitz and glam

I want to celebrate...

Something new

The artist

Someone new

Ideas that are bold

I would love to...

Celebrate culture

The ambition

Big stories told

My group is...

Over 18

Be wowed

Adults and children

THE AVANT GARDE EXPLORER

THE ARTS CHAMPION

THE CULTURE SEEKER

THE NIGHT OUT CREW

FAMILY DAY OUT

“I want something I’ve never seen before.

Surprise me.”

“I’m here to support the artists. This is how culture gets made.”

“I want stories that reflect the world.

All of it”

“We want a laugh and story worth telling at brunch tomorrow.”

“We want a fun and engaging day out, for all the family.”

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See our mini guide

OPENING PARTY

FRINGE IGNITE! STANLEY STREET PARTY | 29 AUG Sydney Fringe Festival’s Official Opening Party We’re kicking things off with a bang and throwing a free street party on the iconic Stanley Street in Darlinghurst. Expect live music, comedy, circus, dance, roaming performers, great food, and the unmistakable feeling that the city just came alive.

In the afternoon, families can relish in the all-ages entertainment on the Fringe Ignite stage, from heart-racing stunts to friendly dinosaurs and all the wild and wonderful performances in between!

Then when the sun goes down, the Fringe stage heats up with daring acrobatics, sultry burlesque and dazzling cabaret.

Come and get a taste of everything Sydney Fringe Festival has to offer.

Proudly funded by the NSW Government’s Open Streets Program

Yalgali

FIRST NATIONS 3pm & 5.50pm

Artists and audiences are warmly invited to gather on Gadigal land and pay respects to our First Nations people and their enduring connection and custodianship of the country we meet, tell stories and make art on.

Head First Acrobats

FRINGE FOR FAMILIES 3–6pm

From backflipping acrobats, to curious prehistoric puppets from Jurassic Down Under, Fringe Kids presented by Ingenia Holiday Parks takes centre stage for an afternoon of wonderment & delight.

Cleo Rapture

FRINGE AFTER DARK 6-10pm

After dark, Stanley Street bursts into life with a rotating spectacle of high-energy entertainment. Featuring performances from Cleo Rapture, In These Shoes and more!

MORE FREE FAMILY FUN We’ve got more family friendly activations running all month long.

Fringeville Hurstville Plaza Sat 12 Sep, from 6pm

Wildcard

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Lane Cove Festival @ Sydney Fringe Launch Event The Canopy Stage, Lane Cove Fri 4 Sep, from 5pm

Dear Stranger The Rocks Market Sat 5, 12, 19, 26 Sep, from 10am

The Rocks Market

The Canopy, Lane Cove

Sat 5, 12, 19, 26 Sep, 11am

30 Sep–4 Oct, from 10am

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FIRST NATIONS Pictured: Peta-Joy Williams and Erica Brennan

FIRST NATIONS AT FRINGE Yalgali is where connection to Country takes centre stage, and First Peoples’ stories are under the spotlight.

Since its inception, Yalgali has served as our dedicated First Nations program, celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling through performances, gathering and community.

Yalgali is where you can discover works by artists whose connection to the land, water and skies of this beautiful country extends back into time immemorial.

But behind the mesmerising performances is something much bigger: a commitment to creating a festival that welcomes and walks alongside First Nations people, embedding wisdom in each step of the journey.

Yalgali is the result of a many-year journey of deep listening; to community, to consultants and to Country herself.

Our guiding principle was to move at the speed of trust.

From this, we launched Yalgali in 2024, where it found a home at PACT, becoming a vibrant Hub where audiences could experience new First Nations work and artists could connect with each other.

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YALGALI ALL MONTH LONG

In 2026, Yalgali is evolving, with First Nations artists featuring across the festival program on some of Sydney’s most iconic stages. This festival-wide program is in response to an enthusiastic call from community to expand into multiple spaces.

Dedicated initiatives like Deadly Tix, which provides discounted tickets for First Nations audiences, and Friends of Fringe, offering free access to all Sydney Fringe shows for First Nations artists of any discipline*, allow us to do this in a tangible way.

First Nations Coordinator Erica Brennan, and First Nations Community Liaison Peta-Joy (PJ) Williams, are a key part of Yalgali’s ongoing story. Together, these women channel their skills in artmaking, event creation, and community championing to ensure Sydney Fringe is a welcoming and invigorating festival space. One that ensures First Nations artists and audiences can dream big and be their Fringiest.

*(Hint: Email erica@sydneyfringe.com if this sounds like you.)

“Whatever you want to make, however you want to make it, we want to help you!” Erica often finds herself saying to artists when she is explaining why Fringe might be for them.

“That’s always what Fringe has done.”

The work also extends far beyond festival season.

Erica and PJ highlight how programs like Friends of Fringe and Yalgali’s annual Open Mic Night; a low-fi, low-risk scratch performance night, create pathways into the Festival and beyond.

What begins as an experiment can often become something bigger, with Erica and PJ commenting that “artists who have participated in past Open Mic Nights have returned to Fringe the following year to present their work in the program.

The trust that is built in the low-fi space pays massively when an artist takes the next risk in their career.”

The goal of Yalgali isn’t simply to present First Nations work. It’s to create an environment where communities see themselves in every aspect of Fringe, including as suppliers, brands and partners.

PJ highlights the importance of communities feeling welcome, commenting that “when mob come into a venue and see a brand they recognise, it helps mob feel welcome and that Fringe is a safe space”.

For PJ, who joined the festival team as an Artist in Residence and now continues to work as a Community Liaison, her deep roots within the community allow her to see the program’s impact firsthand. Those moments are a reminder of why the work matters. First Nations artists are now finding their own way to Fringe through the festival’s open-access model. It’s a sign that trust is growing, and First Nations artists see Fringe as a place where they can flourish.

Through Yalgali, it is also important that we continue to extend a warm hand of welcome to future First Nations audiences and collaborators.

This year’s Yalgali program is our biggest yet; big stories, deep belly laughs, old knowledge imagining new futures. Come join, you’ll find us all across the city!

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FIRST NATIONS What’s On

GRIEF, LOVE AND LEAD BALLOONS Eternity Playhouse

9 & 10 Sep

Join Elaine Crombie on a journey through grief blending storytelling, razor-sharp comedic timing and powerful song.

RITUALS 13 Sep

Machine Hall

This multidisciplinary experience weaves First Nations and CALD artistic practice into a single, unified event. Creating a world where ancestral knowledge and contemporary expression are not in tension, but in conversation.

WANNA BE A STAR 8–12 Sep

Erskineville Town Hall

Part stand-up comedy, part theatrical meltdown, Wanna Be a Star is a brutally honest and chaotic take on ambition, rejection, and the glamour of being an unemployed actor.

Delusional or desperate? You decide.

YALGALI FILM NIGHT 15 Sep

Eora TAFE

Join us for a special screening of IMAGINE a ground-breaking co-created animated film blending indigenous knowledge with cutting edge technology, exploring identity, freedom and a world on the brink of collapse.

INHERITANCE BY TONI JANKE 23–26 Sep

Eternity Playhouse

A poetic musical journey into identity, resilience, and the sacred bonds that connect us across time, questioning what do we truly inherit, and what do we choose to pass on?

RED, YELLOW, BLAKLISTED 19–20 Sep

Improv Theatre Sydney

Four of Canberra’s sharpest and funniest First Nations comedians take the stage for a night of deadly laughs, bold stories, and unapologetic Blak comedy.

Peta-Joy Williams - Garang Walang wuba

SITTING GANAAY 16–19 Sep

Studio One UNSW

A powerful dance work exploring grief, invisibility and survival through the story of a Yinarr carrying intergenerational memory, asking what care and responsibility mean for community under ongoing colonial systems.

OPEN MIC NIGHT 8 Sep

Eora TAFE

Check out local Mob as they take to the mic sharing their freshest, fringiest work. Gather your aunties and mates to make some noise as you step into the spotlight.

BOOMALLI: ON THE FRINGES 2–27 Sep

6–8 Atherden Street, The Rocks

Featuring artwork by Artists from across NSW’s Aboriginal Language Groups, this popup exhibition gives artists the freedom to create artworks without limitations or discrimination.

Hint: Go from day to night starting with Boomalli: On the Fringes at 6–8 Atherden Street, The Rocks. Then jump on the light rail from Circular Quay to Randwick for an evening of contemporary dance with Sitting Ganaay at TheLab@UNSW 16-19 September.

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INNER WEST NEIGHBOURHOOD LIMITLESS

LIMITLESS Limitless returns and this year it’s everywhere.

Limitless exists to champion access and creativity. What began as a single Hub has grown into a curated program spanning multiple venues across the city, bringing the work of d/Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent artists to audiences all month long.

Expect a wildly varied line-up spanning theatre, cabaret, comedy and more.

Limitless has always been about access and creativity going hand in hand. Work made by and for d/Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent communities, without compromise on ambition. Spreading the program across venues this year means more of Sydney gets to experience that work on its own doorstep, all month long.

Access information, including wheelchair accessibility, Auslan interpretation, and sensory-friendly performances varies by show and venue. Check individual show listings for full details before booking.

You can find our Access Icons on page 4 to help you navigate the Fringedex and find the right fit for you.

Supported by

What’s On

Spectrum

Colossus – See page 61 15–19 Sep

Erskineville Town Hall

Spoken Word Artist presents: I Am Not Okay – See page 53 22–27 Sep

Newtown Hotel

Chameleon – See page 38 15–19 Sep

Marrickville Town Hall

Jeremy Moses is HARD TO WORK WITH - See page 46 26 & 27 Sep

Factory Theatre

Bursting Into Life – See page 61 30 Sep

Pottery Lane Performance Space

An Autist in the Making

Spectrum – See page 64 15–19 Sep

Erskineville Town Hall

Autist in the Making – See page 42 13 Sep

Improv Theatre Sydney

Tutti Frutti Burlesque – See page 41 18–20 Sep

The Entertainment Quarter

FRÜÜT – See page 39 10&12 Sep

Eternity Playhouse

FRINGE REVIEWER LAB Introducing the Fringe Reviewer Lab. This September, we’re shining a light on the people who help shape how we talk about independent art: the critics.

In partnership with ArtsHub, one of Australia’s leading arts media platforms, we’re proud to launch the inaugural Fringe Reviewer Lab, a professional development program for ten emerging arts writers at the start of their criticism journey.

Arts criticism in this country depends on writers being given a genuine first opportunity, and those opportunities are increasingly hard to come by. This is why Fringe Reviewer Lab was created.

Across September, our reviewers will cover a variety of Fringe shows, bringing fresh, independent perspectives to the work our artists have poured themselves into.

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Their reviews will be published on Fringe Feed, our dedicated media webpage on the Fringe site, with select pieces also published on ArtsHub. We’re delighted to introduce this year’s cohort: Phaedra Brown, Rosana Bouzas, Grace Davidson-Lynch, Matthew Donlan, Jaynie Ng, Scarlett Potter, Daniel Stojkovski, Solomiya Sywak, William Winter, and Grace Wilson.

Drawn from across dance, theatre, film, music and literary criticism, this cohort brings a range of voices to Sydney’s cultural conversation, and a shared passion for the kind of bold and ambitious work that Fringe exists to make room for.

Want to read what they have to say?

Head to the Fringe Feed tab on our website throughout September for reviews as they land, fresh from the room! It’s the best way to find out what’s worth catching before word of mouth catches up, and to discover the brilliant shows that might otherwise slip past you.

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INNER WEST NEIGHBOURHOOD

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THE AVANT GARDE EXPLORER

THE AVANT GARDE EXPLORER “I want something I’ve never seen before.

Surprise me.”

Cold War 2.0

Not every great night begins with certainty.

Your favourite experiences probably start with a title you didn’t quite understand, a recommendation you didn’t expect, or a show description that left you in wonder.

You’re looking for discovery. The unexpected idea. The ambitious theme.

The performance that leaves you thinking about it long after you’ve left the venue.

You don’t bank on guarantees. You enjoy the thrill of taking chances. Rather than playing it safe with something predictable, you seek the adventure of the unknown.

Across this year’s festival, our artists are pushing boundaries, testing new ideas and reimagining what live performance can be.

We’re bringing you immersive experiences that blur the lines between audience and artist, experimental theatre that will challenge your existing beliefs, and new ideas that open your eyes to what can be done on stage. Fringe creates fascinating moments, inviting you into the unexpected to experience art behind secret doorways, beyond unknown street corners, and right into the heart of Sydney’s most cutting edge creative scene.

For you, the most enjoyable work often comes with more questions than answers.

It gives you a space to explore your creativity and to celebrate unique ideas.

The best work invites curiosity, evokes emotion, and rewards the openness of the audience.

Sydney Fringe has become a home for artists willing to take creative risks. It’s where emerging ideas are tested, and originality shines.

Piss Be With You

Artists are praised for their unconventional ideas, their genre-crossing work, and their cultural depth. The result is a program filled with works that couldn’t exist anywhere else. With spaces yet to be discovered, and venues steeped in history, Fringe will quench your curiosity.

So, step into the unknown. Trust the intriguing description. Follow the recommendation that sounds slightly unbelievable. Get ready for an evening filled with fascination.

You don’t want to miss this. Trust us.

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THE AVANT GARDE EXPLORER What’s On

COLD WAR 2.0 9–20 Sep

LINE HEAD EVENT

6–8 Atherden Street, The Rocks

ICHOR 2–12 Sep

LANDED PACT

2–12 Sep

PACT

A phantasmagoric punk-show from the twilight of global crisis by ‘Theatrical Saboteurs’ ‘Postmodern Genius’: Doppelgängster. Cheap illusions, slam dancing, and frenetic anti-theatre featuring the ‘Abhorrent & Dangerous’ duo.

This pulse-racing physical theatre production examines the masculine traits present within all humans using energetic, ritualistic movement.

Directed by John Fabry, ICHOR explores primal roots through the evolution of our species.

Legendary theatre group Frumpus unleash their indefinable brand of silliness in this hour of madcap entertainment! Three shifty women and their fanged sock puppets embody an unabashed line-up of characters.

GIRLS GONE WILD

SQUATCH WATCH: LIVE

IN THE KEY OF G

23–26 Sep

PACT

23–26 Sep

PACT

HEAD LIN EVEN E T

29 Sep

George Place Foyer

A wellness retreat that quickly unravels into chaos. Blending dance, theatre, comedy, and sharp social commentary, GIRLS GONE WILD explores female rage, toxic-positivity, and how to live your “authentic best life”.

Hosted by leading podcast Squatch Watch, this hilarious cryptozoological deep dive into the world of squatch hunting brings you on a journey through research, bizarre theories and undeniable proof of the Australian Yowie.

Back by popular demand, In the Key of G returns to George Place in a celebration of new music, creativity and improvisation. Guests are treated to a complimentary welcome drink and charcuterie boat. Hurry - tickets move fast!

MOTION SICKNESS

THE SLEEPOVER

FREIDAH WILL SEE YOU NOW

16–19 Sep

New Theatre

After sweeping a whopping 21 awards across the festival circuit, Motion Sickness arrives in Sydney! This cutting-edge physical theatre features pulsing electronic music, immersive AV and breakneck-speed new writing.

23–26 Sep

Studio One UNSW

Three best friends, one birthday girl, a bedazzled camcorder, and the scariest stories they’ve ever told. Comedic group HEAT PACK and horror filmmaker Jayden Rathsam Hua stage a genre-bending theatrical experience.

22–26 Sep

Qtopia Sydney

Fresh from a stellar season at MICF, this cultfavourite show makes its Sydney debut. Freidah ushers the recently deceased, in all her spooky glory to begin afterlife in the underworld.

Hint: Feeling curious about what ideas and themes there are to discover? Uncover the wonderful world of theatre, oozing with unique creativity and heaps of free spirit, on pages 62–66.

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THE ARTS CHAMPION Black Widow: Sex, Bugs and a High Death Toll

THE ARTS CHAMPION “I’m here to support the artists. This is how culture gets made.”

You know that every artist starts somewhere.

You want to see what’s next.

Before sold out seasons, packed theatres, and bursting concert halls, there was an artist. A stage. A first opportunity to test an idea in a room full of strangers.

You don’t just come to see the pristine work.

You’re interested in what’s emerging. The artist taking risks. The audience in awe. The new voices finding their footing. The stories that are yet to be told, and the ideas that are on the precipice of shaping culture.

This is why you come to Fringe.

Fringe connects you to these artists, spotlighting diverse new Australian work, showcasing important First Nations stories, and celebrating cross-cultural collaborations.

With boundary-pushing theatre, genrecrossing cabaret and knee-slapping comedy, Fringe welcomes artists with a story to tell, no matter the genre. Here you are a part of building momentum, you’re there when visibility matters the most. It’s your attendance that allows emerging artists to discover their voice and carve out a career.

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DISCOVER SOMETHING BRAND NEW

The shows may be new, but this isn’t your first rodeo. Be prepared for performances that will move you to tears, sketches that will have you erupting with laughter, stories that will connect you to the artist; all while celebrating unique themes that mean something to you, your fellow audience members, and the performers standing in front of you. Your presence is what matters most.

This is what Fringe is famous for.

You’ll be a part of something special.

So, at this year’s Fringe, show up for the artist you’ve never heard of. Explore the program and book a ticket to the unknown. Take a chance. Show your support.

The future of creativity starts here.

Get planning your fringe. Your ticket.

Their career. Our stage.

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THE ARTS CHAMPION What’s On

MY GRANDPA DOESN’T FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM

ODIE 15–19 Sep

WANNA BE A STAR Erskineville Town Hall

8–12 Sep

Erskineville Town Hall

Join multi-award winner Yoz Mensch on a vivid pilgrimage through familial grief to queer joy.

Take a seat in the members box for this one-man epic comedy told entirely in Aussie vernacular. Will this Queensland State of Origin hooligan, stranded in Sydney, make it back to his missus in one piece?

Sequins. Satire. Spirals. Part stand-up comedy, part theatrical meltdown, witness this brutally honest and hilarious take on ambition, rejection and the glamour of being an unemployed actor.

Delusional or desperate? You decide.

ZEIBEKIKO

FORGET ME, PLEASE

BLACK WIDOW: SEX, BUGS & A HIGH DEATH TOLL

23–26 Sep

22–26 Sep

New Theatre

Erskineville Town Hall

1–12 Sep

Old Fitz Theatre

A body pushes itself to the edge, refusing to settle. Through music, movement and encounters with gender, Theo Carroll learns to dance with his demons (and his Greek heritage) as a trans man.

An intimate contemporary story of love, memory, and how trauma reshapes human connection. Tender, funny and devastating, Forget Me, Please asks what remains when memory slips away.

OPERA’S BAD GIRL

STAGE SOLDIERS

9–11 Sep

Marrickville Town Hall

Scandal, seduction, survival and song. Dive deep into the adventurous life of a worldchanging, singing Suffragette with a story filled with heart, high-notes, and a true heroine.

Anna Bishop is opera’s original rebel girl.

3–5 Sep

PYT Fairfield

This semi-autobiographical work explores gender fluidity juxtaposed against growing up in Australian military culture. An exciting voice out of Western Sydney, Kady Robinson takes you on her journey of self discovery.

22–26 Sep

Qtopia Sydney

A sensual and salacious musical cabaret that dives into the world of Black Widow: a 6’2” maneater with a heart of gold.

AN AUGMENTATION OF SITAR BY RAVI 25–27 Sep

Pottery Lane Theatre

Hear the sitar like never before. Every night is unique and features live collaborations with local artists and musicians covering artists from Alicia Keys to Taylor Swift.

Hint: Looking for more rising stars to support? Jump over to pages 24–25 and get lost in all the Inner West has to offer, with trailblazing shows and fresh ideas from the hottest movers, shakers and culture makers.

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THE CULTURE SEEKER

THE CULTURE SEEKER “I want stories that reflect the world. All of it.”

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE QFWFQ

You’re looking for a night out that inspires a spark. You’re looking for something that makes you feel.

The shows that stay with you are the ones that open your eyes to new perspectives, challenge your existing ideas, expand your ways of thinking or reflect something you’ve never seen on stage before.

You’re curious about the world and the people around you. You value culture as a conversation and art as way of understanding both yourself, and those in your surroundings. Culture is your creative currency, enabling you to see the world through many lenses.

Across this year’s festival, you’ll find artists sharing stories shaped by different cultures, languages, and identities; along with a range of lived experiences. Stories that celebrate artists’ backgrounds, explore heritage, question assumptions, and invite you into a space you might never have experienced before.

If you’ve ever wondered what it might feel like to step into someone else’s shoes, this is your opportunity. We’re highlighting Sydney on the map and bringing big international and local tales straight to you.

Now is the time to see the world in your city with award-winning works from around the globe, directly on your doorstep.

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Whether it’s a multilingual theatre work, a cross-cultural collaboration or a bold new performance, Fringe is the place where big ideas come to life and leave you feeling like your world has been thrown wide open.

Sydney is one of the most diverse cities in the world, and Fringe celebrates every corner of your city and beyond. Creating a stage for those big stories and ideas that were made to be shared.

So, this September, follow your curiosity. Choose the show in the language you don’t speak. See the world through someone else’s eyes. Support an artist sharing a story that deserves to be heard.

This is your Fringe. Get ready to broaden your world.

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DISTILLATION 22–25 Sep

Vaucluse House

Be transported through scent to the Irish bog landscape in this multi sensory performance from Ireland’s Luke Casserly presented with Museums of History NSW. Dedicated to the future of our broken landscapes, this show explores our human relationship to place.

QFWFQ 22–26 Sep

DECADUNCE 15–19 Sep

Qtopia Sydney

Winner of our touring award at NZ Fringe, iconic Kiwi comedian Marshall Lorenzo (Canada’s Drag Race) brings his award-winning sketch comedy extravaganza to Sydney in what critics are hailing as “a masterclass”.

Come and see what all the fuss is about!

FEAST: CHAAT SHOW EDITION Qtopia Sydney

12 Sep

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A razor-sharp dive into the power of storytelling and art that saves your life. Inspired by Italo Calvino, this award-winning performance explores growing up Jewish and queer, grappling with geopolitics, and personal stories without the fourth wall, direct from Hollywood Fringe.

This snack edition of our popular FEAST event explores the world of Indian home cooking. Chaat literally means ‘lip-smacking’, and this spice filled show features Flyover Fritterie founder Gunjan Aylawadi, MasterChef Australia star Depinder Chhibber, and comedian Suraj Kolarkar.

INHERITANCE BY TONI JANKE

PRETTY UGLY

23–26 Sep

Eternity Playhouse

After a celebrated season at QPAC Brisbane, award-winning First Nations artist Toni Janke brings her deeply moving production to Sydney. Weaving songs, storytelling, and live experience, Toni takes you on a musical journey into identity, resilience and cultural connection.

1–5 Sep

Qtopia Sydney

Theo feels pretty... sometimes. Theo feels ugly a lot. Blending song and story in an intimate, conversational tone, Theo Chen’s eclectic cabaret tackles those pesky inner demons we all encounter: the ones that tell us we’re not attractive enough.

Hint: Visit our website to dive deeper into The Culture Seeker and all the global stories taking centre stage in Sydney this September.

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THE NIGHT OUT CREW

THE NIGHT OUT CREW “We want a laugh, a drink, and a story worth telling at brunch tomorrow.”

Get ready to round up the group chat, pick a show (or two), grab a drink (or three), and spend a few hours laughing harder than you have all week.

If you’re the kind of person who spends your days waiting for the electric energy of the evening to begin, and are usually the last one to leave, this is where Fringe slots in!

Whether you’re planning a catch up with friends, a date night, a birthday celebration, or simply looking for something different to do in the evening, this year’s Fringe is packed with shows ready to WOW. With impressive venues, show-stopping performances, and out of this world theatrics, we can’t wait for you to see Fringe shine.

Once the sun goes down, Fringe comes to life. Think side-splitting comedy, outrageous cabaret, heart-stopping circus, burlesque, and performances that are impossible to explain without saying: “you had to be there”.

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FIRE UP THE GROUP CHAT Whether you come for the glitter, the energy, or the atmosphere, you’ll be left with goosebumps and an unexplainable feeling of glee. Fringe is full of fantastic surprises and promises to deliver that big night out energy you crave.

Fringe brings you explosive, live experiences where anything can happen. And because our venues sit alongside some of Sydney’s best bars, restaurants, and late-night spots, the show is often just the beginning. Meet for dinner beforehand, grab a drink after the show, and keep the conversations going long after the lights have gone down.

If you’re looking for maximum fun with minimal planning, we’ve got you covered.

With easy group bookings and something to impress everyone in your squad, rallying the group chat has never felt so easy.

Get ready for spine-tingling fun, hair-raising performances, and an evening full of delight.

The makeup is done. The hairspray is set.

They’re waiting in the wings, ready to give the performance of a lifetime.

So, make a night of it. Grab your besties.

Pick a show. Book that restaurant. Treat yourself to that cocktail. And take a chance on something marvellously unexpected.

Because the best nights are the ones you don’t have to go searching for.

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COPA ON THE ROCKS 2 Sep – 11 Oct

RETURN OF THE GODZ

6–8 Atherden Street, The Rocks

26 Aug – 11 Oct

Part singalong, part piano bar, all party! Your dazzling host Andrew Bukenya is turning up the heat with this glamorous cabaret lounge where the cocktails are flowing, and each evening is built by you, in the room, every single night.

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HEAD LINE EVENT

6–8 Atherden Street, The Rocks

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Fool’s Paradise at The Entertainment Quarter

The Gods are back and ready to raise hell in the biggest party to hit Mount Olympus since 500 BC. Expect gravity-defying acrobats, outrageous comedy, heroic strength, and enough heat to make Zeus sweat. Brace yourself for the hottest night in history.

MICHAEL HING - HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO LIVE LIKE THIS? 17–20 Sep

Factory Theatre

The frocks! The vox! The Crocs?! Fashion writer by day, jazz singer by night, Glynis Traill-Nash brings her style-centric cabaret back to Sydney Fringe with plenty of stories under her Gucci belt, and she’s ready to spill. An unmissable soirée of chic.

Life is increasingly insane. Nothing makes sense. Everything is chaos, and we’re all just expected to keep on going? Unrelated to all this, Michael Hing is developing a brand new hour of comedy.

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RADIO VARIETY

10–12 Sep

Eternity Playhouse

The perfect mix of ripe and rotten. This fruit-tacular cabaret from dynamic duo Exxtra Velvet and Giselle presents a juicy exploration of queerness through a comedic lens. Celebrating zesty, unconventional burlesque, get set for an evening full of glittering, bountiful debauchery.

26 Aug–11 Oct

Fool’s Paradise at The Entertainment Quarter

Embark on a musical journey through the decades with Radio Variety.

A night bursting with acrobatics, aerials, dance, iconic songs, and packed full of surprises; this pulse-pounding, action-packed circus cabaret is entertainment for all ages.

Hint: For more glitz and glam head to 26–27 to discover the Eastern Neighbourhood’s heart-stopping, dazzling line-up at Fool‘s Paradise.

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INNER CITY NEIGHBOURHOOD Get yourself in amongst the crowd and get lost in the magic of Sydney.

The Inner City is where iconic theatres, hidden performance spaces and bustling festival hubs come together, creating an energy that is unmistakably Fringe.

For first time Fringe-goers, this is the perfect place to begin; with a little bit of everything from boundary-pushing theatre, to drag and drama, and exciting musical experiences.

In the centre of it all, Fringe invites you to follow your curiosity and see where the festival takes you. Whether you’re planning a full festival itinerary or simply looking to sample the Fringe spirit, the Inner City welcomes you into the centre point of the festival.

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The Rocks | Gadigal Shaken, stirred, and everything in-between, this program serves straight up entertainment all September long! From intimate cabaret to boundary-pushing theatre, this playground of curiosity has something for everyone.

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A month-long takeover of Qtopia Sydney, Queer Hub is bursting with LGBTQIA+ tales of identity, discovery and joy! Whether you want sequins or soliloquies, Queer Hub is a space to connect and celebrate.

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INNER WEST NEIGHBOURHOOD Creative, eclectic and unapologetically itself, the Inner West is where it all began for Sydney Fringe.

A neighbourhood whose free spirit, creative energy and strong sense of community helped shape Sydney Fringe into the festival it is today. It’s no secret that for years artists, performers and audiences have gathered in one-of-a-kind spaces, building a culture that celebrates experimentation, originality and the joy of discovering something new.

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During Fringe, every corner of the Inner West comes alive.

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From intimate theatres and live music venues to iconic historic buildings, the Inner West is packed with spaces that champion original work. Here you will discover emerging artists alongside local legends, and stumble across performances unlike anything else in the Fringe program.

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EMERGING ARTIST SHARE HOUSE Erskineville Town Hall | Gadigal / Wangal This is where the Fringe spirit ignites each September. With 40+ performances of every art form imaginable, ‘EASH’ is where you’ll discover the next big thing!

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FRINGE COMEDY Factory Theatre | Wangal / Gadigal Get your giggle on at Factory Theatre this September! This venue is bursting with a whole lot of funny, from stand-up to sketch, improv to musical comedy, the laughs are unleashed all month long.

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TOURING HUB New Theatre | Wangal / Gadigal We’re bringing the best interstate Fringe straight to your doorstep – no plane ticket required! A curated season of shows that have delighted audiences across the globe, Touring Hub is your passport to the extraordinary.

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MADE IN SYDNEY PACT | Gadigal / Wangal This renowned program platforms work that demands your attention. We’re presenting two shows from Sydney, and two each touring from Merrigong Theatre Company’s MERRIGONGX Artists’ Program and Canberra Theatre Centre.

FESTIVAL HUB Marrickville Town Hall | Wangal / Gadigal We are once again transforming the Marrickville Town Hall into a must-attend destination for lovers of music, cabaret and unfiltered bravado. This buzzing hub will also be a space for artists to network and socialise.

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If you’re looking to make a night of it, this is the place to start. From Randwick to The Entertainment Quarter and beyond, the Eastern Neighbourhood is home to some of Fringe’s most spectacular experiences; perfect for an evening with friends or turn magical moments into family memories with Fringe Kids presented by Ingenia Holiday Parks. Think death-defying circus, jaw-dropping acrobatics and heart-stopping showmanship. This is a space that knows no bounds.

In the East, you don’t just attend a show, you make a night of it. Grab dinner, meet friends for a drink and dive into bold immersive performances that keep you talking long into the night.

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FOOL’S PARADISE @ THE ENTERTAINMENT QUARTER Moore Park | Bidjigal / Gadigal A mecca for mischief and mayhem, Fool’s Paradise is your invitation to leave boring at the door and embrace everything Fringe has to offer: from international circus superstars, to sizzling burlesque, cabaret, music, variety, and more.

For kids and kids at heart, Fool’s Paradise throws its doors open to family-friendly fun with Fringe Kids presented by Ingenia Holiday Parks! Check out the Fringe Kids guide in the centrefold to transform your school holidays into an affordable adventure for all ages.

THELAB@UNSW UNSW, Studio One | Gadigal This is where every performance boundary is pushed to the brink of bizarre. It’s an experimental program of work that rewrites what performance is and can be. Discover something you’ve never seen before.

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VAUCLUSE HOUSE Vaucluse House | Gadigal We’ve partnered with Museums of History NSW to present Distillation, a multisensory performance that transports audiences to the Irish bog landscape through scent.

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NORTHERN

WHERE CREATIVITY LIVES & THRIVES

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With a stage lit by starlight, the north is full of sparkling surprises.

The Northern Neighbourhood offers a fresh perspective on Sydney Fringe, bringing together vibrant local communities, welcoming outdoor venues, and a growing appetite for bold and creative experiences.

This is a place where you are just as much a part of the festival story as the artists on stage.

At the heart of this neighbourhood is Lane Cove. Lane Cove is a thriving cultural destination, highlighted by Council’s ongoing partnership with Sydney Fringe.

Explore boundary-pushing work by local and visiting artists, connect with a passionate creative community, and experience it all in stunning surroundings, without having to travel far. Hosting Lane Cove Festival @ Sydney Fringe, September is a month to explore all that is ‘Made in Lane Cove’.

There’s a whole other world to discover beyond the city. Come explore.

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LANE COVE FESTIVAL @ SYDNEY FRINGE Lane Cove | Cameraygal This partnership between Lane Cove Council and Sydney Fringe Festival is a month-long celebration of arts, culture and connection.

The festival transforms Lane Cove into a buzzing hub of creativity with a jam-packed line-up of events and activities for all ages.

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POTTERY LANE PERFORMANCE SPACE Pottery Lane Performance Space | Cameraygal This newly designed state-of-the-art theatre in the heart of Lane Cove will present an eclectic program of curated shows throughout September. From critically-acclaimed plays, to new musicals, dance and music, discover an epic line-up of work.

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GET YOUR FILL OF LOCAL CULTURE

NEIGHBOURHOODS Local stories, local voices, endless creativity.

As the festival continues to grow, so does our presence across Southern and Western Sydney, bringing bold ideas, unforgettable performances and extraordinary artists directly into your local community.

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Western Sydney is defined by creativity, diversity and a strong sense of identity.

Home to some of Sydney’s most distinct cultural voices, here you’ll get a festival experience that is proudly local with emerging artists taking to the stage at PYT Fairfield.

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FEAST 10 Sep

FRINGEVILLE Hurstville Entertainment Centre

Enjoy a homestyle Malaysian dinner by Sarah Tiong, with funny food stories from Farz Edraki, Richard Glover, Alex Lee, Siang Lu, Sarah Malik, and Daniel Nour, hosted by Jennifer Wong.

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Hurstville Plaza | Bidjigal

South-West Sydney takes centre stage as Fringeville transforms Hurstville Plaza into a one-night celebration of community, music, dance, and delicious street food.

PYT@FRINGE 3–12 Sep

PYT Fairfield | Cabrogal

Fearless and fresh, we’re passing the mic to a new wave of creators in partnership with PYT Fairfield. This season is unpredictable, uncompromising, and full of heart.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

CLAIRE ROBIN IS ONE TO WATCH

The award-winning Nun Slut returns to Sydney Fringe Festival after taking the world by storm.

Photo: Jennifer Forward-Hayter

For emerging artists, a festival season can be many things; a testing ground, a creative venture, a chance to connect with new audiences. Sometimes it’s the start of something much bigger.

When Sydney-based artist Claire Robin returned to Sydney Fringe Festival with Nun Slut last year, she joined hundreds of artists both developing shows and taking a leap on new work.

Presented in 2025 as part of our Emerging Artist Share House program, Nun Slut found its audience among the festival’s curious, adventurous crowds. But by the end of the season, Robin’s Fringe journey took an exciting turn, with Nun Slut winning Best Comedy and the Hollywood Fringe Tour Ready Award, opening the door to opportunities beyond Sydney.

Now, one year later, Robin is excited to bring “even more hilarious physical comedy moments” to Sydney Fringe with the same show that sparked that momentum.

This time however, she’s stepping onto a different stage, featuring as one of our artists performing at Fringe on The Rocks.

This leap is a wonderful reflection of not only the show’s success, but the way a show can continue to evolve long after a festival run comes to an end.

For many artists, shows are tested and developed alongside day jobs, other creative projects, and the hustle required to find opportunities to get their work in front of an audience.

Here’s where Sydney Fringe comes in.

We provide a platform where artists can experiment, take risks and discover what resonates with audiences.

For Robin, Nun Slut became exactly that kind of opportunity. Robin comments how Sydney Fringe has been “instrumental in taking the show to the next level and touring overseas”, and although the basis of the show is the same, over the past years she has been pushing herself creatively, developing “new ways to make the crowd laugh”. Nun Slut is ever evolving. Robin muses how she is always “adapting the show and integrating the gifts the audience give me every night”.

The journey of Nun Slut provides a glimpse into the process required to grow, tour and evolve a show over time. What began as a smaller-scale production has become an ongoing creative project, shaped by new experiences, new audiences and the opportunities that followed. The awards allowed Robin to take her work beyond local

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stages and out into the world, currently in LA about to do her first show at Hollywood Fringe, Robin explains she has expanded this into a longer international tour, “performing in Vancouver in a couple of weeks, and at the Edinburgh Fringe”.

When speaking on what the recognition meant to her, Robin commented that she was ecstatic when she found out she had won and that “it really affirms the joy the show brings to people and that I’m on the right path”.

Artists are at the core of our festival. Beyond showcasing finished work, Sydney Fringe acts as a creative ecosystem, supporting artists at different stages of their careers and providing pathways for development.

From emerging artist programs through to major festival hubs, artists are given room to grow, refine their practice and build sustainable careers.

As Nun Slut takes to the stage once again, Robin is excited to “have fun with my hometown Sydney audience”, with attendees getting to experience a work that already has travelled far since its most recent Sydney Fringe run.

This is what local festivals like Sydney Fringe make possible. Not every artist leaves Fringe with an international touring opportunity.

But every artist who steps onto a Sydney Fringe stage is given the chance to be seen, to connect and to take the next step in their creative journey.

For Claire Robin, that next step began at Sydney Fringe. One year on, the story is still being written.

To witness this award-winning comedy, you can catch Nun Slut at 6-8 Atherden Street, The Rocks from 23 Sep – 4 Oct as part of Fringe on The Rocks.

SUPPORT SYDNEY FRINGE To help Sydney Fringe support more artists like Claire, visit impact. sydneyfringe.com and help us make an impact that lingers long after the curtain closes.

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CABARET & MUSICAL THEATRE

1984! THE MUSICAL!

See Orwell's dystopia re-imagined as a lighthearted romantic comedy; a lavish spectacle complete with torture, totalitarianism, and the truest love of all; statemandated love for Big Brother. A musical every bit as toe-tapping as it is soul-crushing.

Join the hilarious fun as 'Dr H' revives the great satirical songs from the Monty Python era. Participation is a must, with piano cabaret antics, interactive patter and lots of singalong.

ABBA - THE SINGALONGA CABARET

It's an ABBAsolutely fabulous celebration of the songs and stories of this legendary group presented in award-winning piano cabaret style with Dr H. All the Hits! All the Fun! All the Singalonga!

Flight Path Theatre

Marrickville Town Hall

Marrickville Town Hall

$32 • 6pm • 115m 6 - 19 Sep

From $25 • 7:30pm • 55m 23 Sep

From $25 • 7:30pm • 60m 26 Sep

ALL RELIGIONS EXPLAINED - THE MUSICAL

AN EVENING OF TWO SHORT COMEDY PLAYS, A SHORT MUSICAL ON MODERN LOVE, PLUS A CABARET

ANOTHER UNWASTED EVENING - THE GENIUS OF TOM LEHRER

A joyous, piano-pounding cabaret where prophets rhyme, doctrines swing, and we sing our way through the sacred - celebrating faith, doubt, and the gloriously human comedy of belief Come curious - Leave enlightened.

Four shows in 60 minutes: two short comedy plays, a musical about modern dating, and a glamorous cabaret.

Enjoy musical satire at its finest: Dr H celebrates the mischievous wit of Tom Lehrer with this award winning must-see piano cabaret show.

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BARNABY: A COUNTRY MUSICAL

BEHIND THEIR CLOSED DOORS

Through song, comedy and theatrical vignettes, performers navigate the drama, glamour and madness of live theatre in this cabaret experience.

From the team behind the hit show “Gladys: A Musical Affair” comes a satirical musical tribute to The Beetrooter. Barnaby tackles gay marriage, divorce, cancer, and of course, threatening to murder Johnny Depp's dogs.

Ten songs, seven lives, one train ride - Jump on board for this uplifting hot-offthe-press folk pop cabaret about what we hide and the songs that set us free!

Qtopia Sydney

Eternity Playhouse

Qtopia Sydney

$30 • 7:30pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

From $44 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 16 - 26 Sep

From $30 • 7:30pm • 55m 8 - 12 Sep

BLACK WIDOW

BREAK THROUGH: AN EVENING OF LOVE, HEARTBREAK, AND MOVING ON

CHAMELEON

Part woman, part spider, all cannibalistic blood lust.

A sensual and salacious musical cabaret that dives into the world of Black Widow; a 6"2 maneater with a heart of gold.

Arachnophobes encouraged.

Intimate, emotional, and MT-coded, Joseph Restubog explores soulmates and heartache with Nathaniel Kong and Sophie Szecsodi.

This hilarious, emotionallycharged cabaret has a relatable moment for everyone! A wild ride into the twisted rabbit-hole of the human psyche, this show packs a healthy dose of funny for the mind, body and soul.

Qtopia Sydney

Marrickville Town Hall

Marrickville Town Hall

From $20 • 6pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

From $28 • 7:30pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

From $25 • 6pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

CHANGELING: THE BEFORE AND THE AFTER

CRYING CONTRALTO

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF KITTY JUNE

An intergalactic concert memory, myth and music - wearing intricate Valkyrie crowns and costumes, performing with recordings of Axel's former female self, this is a rhinestone encrusted duet set across time and space.

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A MONTY PYTHON CABARET SINGALONG CIRCUS

Chanteuse. Clown. Crier.

Award-nominated artist Alison Eaton sings crying songs... or songs crying.

Her rich contralto fuses jazz standards, vintage pop, antics and tissues in a cabaret for all the criers out there.

Kitty June dreams of the spotlight. She takes audiences along with her on her comedic journey to Hollywood through song, dance and a whole lot of sparkle.

BYO hanky.

Qtopia Sydney

Erskineville Town Hall

Erskineville Town Hall

From $35 • 7:30pm • 60m 8 - 12 Sep

From $22 • 6pm • 55m 15 - 19 Sep

From $22 • 9pm • 45m 22 - 26 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

Glam on with the greatest Eurovision piano cabaret tribute singalong show ever! It's high-energy, interactive singing, laughing, dancing, quizzing and generally having one of the best nights of your life.

FOUL MOUTHED COOT, PERMANENT AS PARTY BALLOONS.

A washed-up Hollywood diva is diagnosed with Gay Diabetes and decides to direct one last film as her body crumbles and career collapses, dragging the entire industry down with her.

FRÜÜT

The perfect mix of ripe and rotten, dynamic duo Exxtra Velvet and Giselle's new cabaret fruit-tacular presents a juicy exploration of queerness through a comedic lens. Audiences are promised an evening of glittering, bountiful debauchery.

Marrickville Town Hall

Qtopia Sydney

Eternity Playhouse

From $25 • 9pm • 55m 25 Sep

$27 • 6pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

From $30 • 8pm • 60m 10 - 12 Sep

HANNAH RAVEN'S LATE NIGHT REVUE

IN THESE SHOES

ME! - THE CABARET

Sydney's Duchess of dark delights, Hannah Raven, brings you a night of Burlesque and frivolity.

Strap yourself in for an evening of song, circus, cabaret and carnage at the iconic Old Fitz Theatre.

The frocks! The vox! The Crocs?! Style scribe and jazz singer Glynis TraillNash brings her fashionfuelled cabaret back to Sydney Fringe after tantalising audiences around Australia and Edinburgh Fringe. "An absolute romp of fun" (OUTinPERTH)

A Quadruple Threat navigates 'how to be the perfect performer'.

Musical theatre, pop music and comedy converge to bring you an emotional experience on the power of being authentically you.

Old Fitz Theatre

Fringe on The Rocks

Factory Theatre

$31 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 45m 22 - 27 Sep

$46 • 6:15pm • 60m 2 - 6 Sep

$25 • 9:30pm • 60m 24 Sep

MIKELANGELO IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE

OFF LEASH

OPERA'S BAD GIRL

2025 Canberra artist of the year Michael Simic shares the stage with his charming alter-ego Mikelangelo, blending songs and storytelling in a brave voyage into the depths of fatherhood.

PACT Centre for Emerging Artists

A local council's dog park consultation turns feral in this barking mad drag musical about cranky residents, burntout bureaucrats, and the impossible task of keeping an entire community happy.

Scandal, seduction, survival and song.

Award winning show, Victorian parlour setting, delights with vocal acrobatics and the life of the 19c Diva, Anna Bishop: the world-changing Suffragette, whose adventures read like fiction.

Factory Theatre

Marrickville Town Hall

$37 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 16 - 19 Sep

$25 • 8:30pm • 80m 6 Sep

From $25 • 7:30pm • 60m 9 - 11 Sep

QUEEN - A NIGHT AT THE CABARET OPERA

ROCKY HORROR

SHE KILLS MONSTERS

Rock on with the greatest Queen piano cabaret tribute singalong show ever! All the hits, fun stories and lots of laughs with award-winning entertainer, Dr H.

Step into the Time Warp and get ready to shiver with antici...pation! You know the movie, you know the songs, so time to step into a live piano cabaret extravaganza that's bursting with energy, laughter, audience participation, and belt-out songs from start to finish.

She Kills Monsters is a fast-paced celebration of Dungeons & Dragons, leather clad demon queens and 90s pop culture. Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Stranger Things with epic storytelling and performances.

Marrickville Town Hall

Marrickville Town Hall

Eternity Playhouse

From $25 • 7:30pm • 60m 25 Sep

From $25 • 9pm • 60m 26 Sep

From $39 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 90m 23 - 26 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

CABARET & MUSICAL THEATRE

EUROVISION

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CIRCUS

50-UP: THE REWIND

WHAT THE FUNK! A high-energy circus cabaret celebrating the music of the '70s.

Performed by an amazing cast aged 50+, this retro Countdown-inspired show delivers iconic tunes, aerials, acrobatics, and enough pop trivia to make Molly proud.

Intimate and tender, Missy and J Twist deliver a circus duet where acrobatics and aerials emerge from the everyday. Furniture becomes apparatus, partnership becomes physics, revealing what it takes to hold each other up.

FURYS FUN HAUS HOF Fire Academy Student Showcase.

Step right into Fury’s Fun Haus, a dazzling circus-inspired spectacle where fire, fantasy, and fearlessness combine! Sydney Fringe’s hottest ticket under the Big Top!

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

From $23 • 12pm • 55m 19 - 20 Sep

$33 • 8:10pm • 45m 3 - 6 Sep

From $28 • 4:30pm • 50m 19 - 27 Sep

RHYTHMS IN MOTION

TYPO

PETER PAN: AFTER DARK

Witness an explosive fusion of elite Nigerian acrobatics, traditional West African dance, and mesmerizing fire magic in this high-octane cultural spectacle for all ages.

Come with our writer on a journey through the writing process in this all-ages circus show...

Emerge triumphant at the end with a quirky fairy tale presented by the eclectic cast of the writer's imagination.

A seductive burlesque adventure, reimagining the classic fairytale through dance, circus and spectacle. Follow Wendy into a dangerous world of fairies, pirates, mermaids and suspense where nobody ever really grows up.

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

From $33 • 5:30pm • 50m 29 Sep - 11 Oct

From $25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 11 Sep - 11 Oct

$45 • 7pm • 55m 28 - 30 Aug

LOVE AT FIRST BITE

OF LOVE & LOSS

TOBY QUAST'S FANTASYLAND

Twas Love At First Bite... a tale of Sapphic sin.

A devised, and abstract physical assembly performance - a women’s community circus, plus one. A circus dreamscape using movement and props to reveal the lost, the lonely, the joyous and the loved...

Toby Quast invites you to his Cabaret Fantasyland, the perfect place to escape the darkening world outside.

Just ignore the knocking at the door...

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

Marrickville Town Hall

Prices @ sydneyfringe.com • 8:10pm • 50m 9 - 13 Sep

From $20 • 4:10pm • 60m 12 Sep

$19.99 • 7:30pm • 45m 15 - 19 Sep

TICKLE AND TEASE, A COMEDY CABARET

HOLD

GLADSOME THRONG

A wild comedy cabaret, the late-night laugh you needed. Expect rotating casts, big props and unapologetic chaos. A variety show perfect for anyone who likes their late-night Fringe served hot, camp, and a little unhinged.

A contemporary circus performance centred around whimsy.

Holding onto trinkets, childhood joy, magic, and imagination, can actually soothe our nervous systems. So come along and learn how it can heal us, and more importantly, how we hold that whimsy.

Valerie Cameron wrote 'The Black Winds', a cautionary tale of environment collapse and the unsettling of displaced peoples, as the Californian bushfires were raging. With a new arrangement from Robert Cumings, created especially for this recital.

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

Marrickville Town Hall

From $40 • 9:30pm • 60m 11 - 26 Sep

Prices @ sydneyfringe.com • 5pm • 60m 12 - 13 Sep

$30 • 9pm • 40m 8 - 12 Sep

KALEIDOSCOPE

ADULTS ONLY MAGIC SHOW

"NAUGHTY BABY"

Colour, chaos and commotion create an ever shifting Kaleidoscope of circus. Emerging artists from the Sydney Trapeze School Youth Troupe bring aerials, comedy, handstands, juggling and high energy group performances to the stage.

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INTERIOR MOTIVES

Back and naughtier than ever, the Adults Only Magic Show is an unapologetically wild ride of raunchy comedy, jawdropping illusions, and a generous helping of skin. Hilarious. Horny. Magical.

With powerhouse vocals, dry wit, and cheeky storytelling, the irrepressible Mme Belle delivers a polished and unpredictable two-act guide to her life-in-song - from Lichtenstein to the lower Blue Mountains, no less - through this mischievous show.

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

Sean & Dolly's

$25 • 1:30 pm • 50m 19 - 20 Sep

From $39 • 8:10pm • 70m 2 - 10 Sep

From $40 • 7:30pm • 90m 16 - 19 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

RADIO VARIETY

The biggest party to hit Mount Olympus since 500 BC is back, and the Gods are ready to raise hell!

Expect gravity-defying acrobatics, outrageous comedy, heroic strength, and enough heat to make Zeus sweat.

A high-energy circus and cabaret spectacular that takes audiences on a musical journey through the decades. Featuring acrobatics, aerials, comedy, dance and iconic songs. Fun, fast-paced and full of surprises, it’s entertainment for all ages.

Entertainment Quarter

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Entertainment Quarter

From $40 • 8pm • 60m 26 Aug - 11 Oct

From $35 • 6:30pm • 60m 26 Aug - 11 Oct

THE PINK PONY PARLOUR

CIRCUS

RETURN OF THE GODZ

Saddle up for a night of unapologetic glitz, glamour and gasp-worthy cabaret. This isn’t your average pony ride; it’s a high-kickin’, feather-flickin’, cocktail-sippin’ celebration of all things bold, brassy and beautifully over-the-top.

Entertainment Quarter From $37.50 • 6:50pm • 60m 10 - 12 Sep

SOMETHING WICKED

Feeling Wicked? Join us in the depths of hell for a festival experience like no other. This 5-star rated show is back this Sydney Fringe and offers a host of award-winning burlesque and circus artists. The coven is waiting Sydney.

Entertainment Quarter From $40 • 8:10pm • 60m 17 - 27 Sep

TUTTI FRUTTI BURLESQUE

Tutti Frutti: Full Access Burlesque, drag, circus and cabaret led by disabled artists who are rewriting what bodies look like. This isn’t inspiration porn. It’s talent. It’s rebellion. It’s damn good cabaret.

Entertainment Quarter From $24 • 6:50pm • 60m 18 - 20 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

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COMEDY

I'M ITALIAN (BUT IT'S NOT MY FAULT)

An Italian abroad, an African wife, a kid in Indonesia—chaos, culture clash, and comedy gold.

Featuring dark and filthy jokes from all around the world, this is comedy at its best.

No topic is off-limits in this no-holds-barred plunge into the abyss of comedic brilliance.

7-ELEVEN ATTACK Crikey mate, looks like the kangaroos have some competition.

RAW Comedy Nationals runner-up Delhi Buoy (with guest comics) brings his hilarious show as he plans the great Australian takeover using strategy he is calling 'The 7-ELEVEN Attack'!

Barrel Below

Barrel Below

Barrel Below

$25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 25 - 26 Sep

From $20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 2 - 26 Sep

From $20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 11 - 24 Sep

9 LIVES

A (MODERN) AUSTRALIAN STORY

A COURT OF SOAP AND OPERA

A chaotic comedy show where a man dies nine ridiculous deaths, haunted by a tiny lizard.

Absurd audience play, mock horror, and sudden heartbreak collide in a joyful, anarchic pairing of laughter and the macabre.

A queer, an AfricanAustralian, a culture setter and a desi-bogan walk into a Fringe Festival...

How many beds in the inn? Will the love triangle tear the kingdom asunder?

Will The Author submit their manuscript on time?

Find out in this unscripted romantasy romp!

Improv Theatre Sydney

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

$19.99 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 11 - 13 Sep

From $22 • 6:30pm • 60m 24 - 25 Sep

From $22 • 9:30pm • 55m 3 - 4 Sep

A MUSICAL COMEDIAN

A THISTLE IN A GUM TREE

A VERY CHINESE TIME

A night of unfortunately relatable comedy songs.

When Brandon wrote serious music, no one listened. Now he sings self deprecating jingles, and the masses applaud.

Australia meets Scotland in the comedy spectacular to warm your cockles.

Hugh (Australia) and Iain (Scotland) team up for an hour of glass half full joy (Hugh) and glass half empty skepticism (Iain).

Two Asian comedians, twice the chaos. Sharp observations, self deprecation, cultural clashes, family dysfunction and everyday absurdities delivered with wit, honesty and plenty of laughs.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Erskineville Town Hall

From $22 • 8pm • 60m 17 - 18 Sep

From $22 • 6:30pm • 60m 17 - 18 Sep

From $20 • 7:30pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

AEROBICS: WOG STYLE

ALL INDIA MASS MIGRATION COMEDY

AMY RUFFLE VAMPIRE

This unstoppable, crazy strong Macedonian Greek duo weave their stories of struggle, misunderstandings and protein powder into one (sugar-free) jam packed hour! Makedonka and Marie are coming in hot and will make you sweat!

No more Indians they say?! Award winning Indian comedians are now striking back with the most lethal of weapons - comedy!

Note: No free tech support or taxi rides will be provided.

As seen on Thank God You're Here, Most Upsetting Guessing Game and NETFLIX's Mako Mermaids, this is the debut stand up hour from Amy Ruffle about brains, bodies and the last place you'd expect to find a burrito.

Factory Theatre

Barrel Below

Factory Theatre

From $25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 - 20 Sep

From $20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 4 - 18 Sep

From $22 • 9:30pm • 60m 17 - 18 Sep

AN AUTIST IN THE MAKING (A WORK IN PROGRESS SHOW)

AN IRANIAN AND AN IRISH WALK INTO A BAR

ARIZONA MYERS AND THE OMINOUS HAND!

Join Autistic Comedian and magician Aaron Ducker as he works out the material for his debut stand up comedy show. With sets on Hans Asperger, obscure 90s television shows and writing for the ABC.

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100% DARK COMEDY

Ever felt Lost in Translation? Join Comedians Mae Da from Iran & Susie Fagan from Ireland as they dive into the madness of Motherhood, Migration and over one wild hour of hilarious standup and stories.

Arizona Myers may not be the biggest name in archeology, but he's above average! From comedian Yarno Rohling comes an audience-driven, offbeat expedition with the world's most unremarkable adventurer.

Improv Theatre Sydney

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

$19 • 8:30pm • 60m 13 Sep

$25 • 5:15pm • 60m 3 Oct

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 20 Sep - 2 Oct

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

It's whacky poetry and relatable insights. It's Dr Seuss meets Bush Poetry.

It's one man trying to make sense of modern life through rhyme. If heart-felt prose is what you're looking for, keep looking.

AUDREY CLARK - SLIME WILL SMELL

A one-woman sketch show full of spooky and kooky characters.

Guaranteed to make you say "That was both spooky and kooky and also I laughed and also it was really good."

AUTISTIC JOB SEARCH

A recounting of my numerous attempts at getting and keeping a job as an autistic person.

Marrickville Town Hall

Factory Theatre

Qtopia Sydney

$27 • 6pm • 45m 8 - 12 Sep

$25 • 7pm • 60m 20 Sep

FREE • 9pm • 55m 15 - 19 Sep

BARNEY'S SPORTS VS ENTERTAINMENT COMEDY SHOWDOWN

BEST OF BRITISH

BEST OF INTERNATIONAL COMEDY

It's Theatre Sports vs.

Real Sports! One hour.

Two teams. Only one winner. It's game-time & showtime!

A crowd favourite of The Fringe returns! Best of British brings the top-class comedians in a hilarious showcase. Here you'll find a list of the top UK comedians who will give you a well-deserved chortle. A show the king will be proud of, make sure you don't miss out this invasion of laughter.

The best line-up of awardwinning international comedians this Festival!

The best jokes from around the world, in one show.

Factory Theatre

Newtown Hotel

Barrel Below

From $25 • 6:30pm • 60m 1 - 3 Oct

From $33 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 9 - 19 Sep

From $20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 3 - 28 Sep

BEST OF THE FEST

BIN NIGHT

BRANDY TSANG - ALL UP IN MY FEELS

The funniest showcase of the festival. A selection of comedians curated

by Comedy On Edge featuring acts all over the Sydney Fringe in a one-hour show, jam-packed with hilarious performances with international and local stars, guaranteed to have you laughing!

It's bin night for Steph Broadbridge, Bec Melrose and Fiona Cox. With your help, 3 of Sydney's best comedians will decide which new jokes are winners and which ones are binners.

Fresh from two sold-out comedy shows this year, Brandy returns to share her wit and reflections on queer love, her relationship with her dad, and where her mind goes after someone says her name.

Newtown Hotel

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

From $33 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 1 - 27 Sep

From $22 • 9:15pm • 60m 1 - 3 Oct

$22 • 8pm • 60m 24 Sep

BUSINESS

CAFFEINE AND COMEDY RAVE

CHERUB - TARSH JAGO

Comedian and business analyst Maddie Stokes is here to dispel the myth that the corporate world sucks your soul out your butt. A joyful and hilarious debut comedy hour that is part-game show, part-fever dream.

Caffeine-fuelled comedy chaos.

High-energy comedy show featuring three BEST handpicked fringe comedians and a COFFEE TASTING PLATTER to enjoy with the show.

Cheeky yet charming Cherub intertwins an Aboriginal and queer identities in an hour of storytelling comedy.

Nominated for Best newcomer in Melbourne Comedy festival, this is one to watch!

Factory Theatre

Barrel Below

Factory Theatre

$25 • 6:30pm • 50m 3 - 4 Sep

From $31 • 2:30pm • 50m 12 Sep

From $22 • 8pm • 50m 3 - 4 Sep

CHRIS NATSUUME - CLITORIS SUMMER PLUM

CHRIS RYAN - WIP

CLOCHE IMPROV A LA CARTE

Native Texan Chris Natsuume has distilled 25 years of life in Japan into a no-filter comedy show about Japanese assimilation, full of sharp storytelling, generational rage, and raw absurdity.

Chris Ryan's new show starts here, with the foundations. Bring a good attitude and help her build the rest.

Your new favourite restaurant, where the charm almost makes up for the chaos.

Some of Sydney's favourite improvisers are serving up laughs that are sure to leave you satisfied.

Newtown Hotel

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

$30 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 17 - 19 Sep

From $22 • 7pm • 60m 1 - 3 Oct

From $22 • 6:45pm • 50m 3 - 4 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

COMEDY

ASH FUNNY POET

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COMEDY

COMEDIAN VS CHATGPT

A live comedy experiment where human comedians compete against an AI host desperately trying to earn the audience's approval.

Q: Who is Rodney Marks?

A: A Sydney comedian, comic hoaxer and corporate impostor.

COMEDY AND OTHER CRIMES

Vulnerable comedic confessions where we reveal what makes comics and other criminals tick.

In a never before seen trio, we hear of the darker sides of humanity through a hilarious blend of standup comedy.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Improv Theatre Sydney

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 26 - 27 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 5 - 6 Sep

$22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 18 - 20 Sep

COMEDY FOR CORPORATES: WORK-LIFE BALANCE IS FOR LOSERS

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU BEAT DEPRESSION

CRAZY FUNNY ASIANS

James Clark's unapologetically sharpwitted and hilarious commentary on corporate life. His unique and irreverent perspective will have you laughing at yourself and each other.

Sometimes you gotta throw yourself a party to celebrate the wins, a party where most people are sitting down and the people on stage are doing all the work.

Crazy Funny Asians is back! Selling out shows since 2017, this event features some of the hottest comedic talent in the Asian community. You'll be crying with laughter then you'll be laughing long time.

Newtown Hotel

Factory Theatre

Newtown Hotel

$35 • 8:15pm • 60m 25 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 45m 26 - 27 Sep

From $33 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 8 - 20 Sep

CWA: CUNTRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

DAD'S - AN IDIOT GUIDE

DAVID ROSE

The CWA meeting is about to commence, please take your seat.

We've a lot on the agenda.

Brace yourself for bold characters, ridiculous ideas, and a stupid fun time, featuring some of Sydney's best improvisers!

Celebrate the Fathers' Day weekend by learning from my mistakes and the mistakes of others.

Guaranteed to contain only one Dad Joke, unfortunately it will be the only joke you remember.

My great grandfather was a world-famous Jewish comedian in the early 20th century. A century later, here I am in the same job, asking the same questions.

Improv Theatre Sydney

Factory Theatre

The Comedy Store

From $15 • 7pm • 50m 18 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 5 - 6 Sep

From $28 • 7pm • 60m 10 Sep

DECADUNCE

DIAL M FOR MUSHROOMS

DOUBLE DATE - ANDREW HASTINGS & LOCHLANN MCALLISTER

Multi award-winning Kiwi comedian Marshall Lorenzo (Canada's Drag Race) is back with a brand new sketch comedy, 'Decadunce' (2026 Sydney Tour Award). Featuring various unforgettable characters in a hilarious show about fraud, excess and stupidity.

Bring a date - or an estranged family member - to a musical comedy that takes a mushroomtrip down memory lane, exploring the murder trial that shocked the nation! Featuring a live funk-rock soundtrack, outrageous costumes and hilarious comedy.

Lonely and looking for laughs? Join comedians Andrew Hastings and Lochlann McAllister for a double date you'll never forget.

Qtopia Sydney

Erskineville Town Hall

Factory Theatre

From $15 • 7:30pm • 50m 15 - 19 Sep

From $27 • 7:30pm • 55m 1 - 5 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 - 20 Sep

EGG AND BACON ROLLS: THE NATHAN ROACH STORY

ETHNIC COMEDY DINNER

EVANS MUSOKA NOT GOING BACK

School child Nathan Roach dreams of one day becoming a world-class musical comedian. Nathan will not let anything stand between him and his ambition; not even a lack of musical comedy talent.

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COMEDIAN.COM. AU

Hilarious ethnic stories of cricket, Hindu gods, Bollywood movies, accents and more.

Featuring award-winning Indian Australian comic Aditya Gautam.

"Sure to leave you feeling positive inside" Chortle

From Kenya to Tokyo & now coming to Australia?

Come see Japan's hottest comedy sensation, Evans Musoka! Don't miss his sharp storytelling, cultural observations, & effortlessly relatable humor that's fresh, energetic & impossible not to laugh with.

See website for venue

Barrel Below

Newtown Hotel

$19.99 • 9pm • 50m 22 - 26 Sep

From $19 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 10 - 19 Sep

$30 • 9pm • 60m 10 - 12 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

Imagine every embarrassing mistake you've made being put on display. Exhibit A: Dumb B!tch. This joyous self-humiliation ritual demonstrates that you're not alone. YOU'RE not dumb, but THIS B!tch is. And that's okay!

FAIRYTALE: ENDING

Fairytales turned Roisin into a damsel in distress.

This is her revenge. Sharp, feminist and excruciatingly dark comedy tearing apart the stories that tell women to shrink themselves for love.

FIRST NATIONS HEADLINERS

Showcasing the Deadliest and Lubbliest First Nations comedians from around the country, serving bold, unapologetically Blak laughs, culture and storytelling that'll have audiences grinning all night - featuring Leon Filewood, Tarsh Jago and Kylan Ambrum.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 - 20 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 26 - 27 Sep

From $17.60 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 5 - 6 Sep

FLASHBACK

FLOBBER

FOREIGN AFFAIR - WORK IN PROGRESS

Every disaster has a backstory. From awkward decisions to catastrophic misunderstandings, you create the event and our players improvise a comedy. You get to laugh while our characters panic in the face of adversity.

Flobber, twin sister of another green goo made famous in 1997, sheds light on the ups and downs of her career in Hollywood.

Allow this flexible-rubber to remind you that sillyness saves lives!

A work-in-progress show from an award-winning comedian. What's the show about? Everything to do with love, heartbreak and sex.

Erskineville Town Hall

Factory Theatre

Qtopia Sydney

$27 • 6pm • 60m 8 - 12 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 55m 3 - 6 Sep

$27 • 6pm • 50m 1 - 5 Sep

FRANKIE ROWASTHORNE - WIP

FREDDIE MCMANUS (FEAT. FREDDIE MCMANUS)

FREIDAH WILL SEE YOU NOW

Hey Sydney it's Frankie and this will be my first solo show/ work in progress. It's everything I've written over the past 7 years and more!

Freddie McManus is as good at stand up comedy as he is bad at blurbs. In his new show, he's promised to perform with "one night only" intensity for four consecutive nights. Be a part of history.

Freidah (no last name) is a once in an afterlife talent, banished to the banks of the River Styx. It is here, by the waters edge, where this clown will usher you, the recently deceased, to begin your afterlives in the underworld... just as soon as the boat arrives...

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Qtopia Sydney

From $22 • 8pm • 60m 1 - 3 Oct

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 1 - 4 Oct

$30 • 7:30pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

FRINGE COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR CHAMPIONSHIP

GAG RACE: A QUEER COMEDY COMPETITION

XXX NAUGHTY COMEDY SHOWCASE

The Best comics in the Festival perform their Best jokes, and you Crown the Champion. Expect killer jokes & fierce competition. All shows will feature the absolute BEST talent of the Festival.

Every act is a gag and YOU VOTE for the winner! Who will reign as Miss Gag Race and win the beloved crown and sceptre?

Naughty Comedy for Naughty People. A comedy showcase that's uncensored, hilarious, and guaranteed to keep you laughing all night long.

Look no further. No topic is taboo for these comedians!

Barrel Below

Factory Theatre

Newtown Hotel

From $20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 5 - 25 Sep

From $22 • 9:15pm • 60m 3 - 4 Sep

$30 • 9:30pm • 60m 3 - 26 Sep

GHOSTS AT PLAY

GLOBAL COMEDY

GOD'S MISTAKE

Ghosts are haunting every single comedy improv show ever! Join our talented improvisers in exorcising these freaks in white sheets by smashing their see-through faces while exploring the way people confront their regrets.

It's a global comedy show!

We've got comedians who will take you on a hilarious journey around the globe with their hilarious stories and jokes. From cultural quirks to hilarious stereotypes, our comedians will tickle your funny bone and leave you in stitches.

How do you go from nunin- training to professional dominatrix?

This one woman show charts a magnificent fall from grace that will have you clutching your rosaries and squirting Holy Water.

Factory Theatre

Newtown Hotel

Qtopia Sydney

$22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 55m 26 - 27 Sep

$25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 1 - 27 Sep

$27.50 • 9pm • 55m 22 - 26 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

COMEDY

EXHIBITCH

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COMEDY

GRIEF, LOVE AND LEAD BALLOONS

Elaine Crombie is journeying though a grief season that's packed with all the favourites - tjamu, Nana, Mum, Dad and NannyGirl, like wtf! Listen to some tunes and complaints from a woman forever changed by stage left exits.

Divya Vaman's debut hour mixes traditional stand-up and PowerPoint comedy.

By blending one-liners, storytelling and screen reveals, she dives into her experiences and observations in this warm, relatable and laugh-out-loud show.

I DON'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE!

Kim Snow is trying to be normal without any point of reference. This is her stand up comedy show about her life and the weird scenarios she has gotten herself into.

Eternity Playhouse

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

$45 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 9 & 10 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 5 - 6 Sep

From $22 • 7pm • 60m 17 - 18 Sep

I'M A LESBIAN BUT I REALLY LOVE MEN

I'M NOT A COP, THIS IS A TAX WRITE OFF.

IMPROV COMEDY CATASTROPHE!

just for all the wrong reasons.

It's like Eavesdropping on the conversation those two dodgy guys on your train are having.

In a world of structure, routine and submission to the rules, Improv Comedy Catastrophe invites you to the antithesis: chaos, rebellion and unbridled enthusiasm.

Erskineville Town Hall

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

$25 • 6pm • 50m 8 - 12 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 - 20 Sep

From $22 • 7:45pm • 60m 1 - 2 Oct

IMPROVISED SITCOM

INSIDE AN IMMIGRANT'S SUITCASE

INTERNATIONAL ALCOHOL AND COMEDY TASTING

A completely improvised 1970s family sitcom parody -- created live from your suggestions. You invent the episode and the family, however crazy. We create the chaos.

Welcome to the new 1970s!

This hilarious comedy show unpacks the real experience of starting over in a new country. Avinaash Thanabalan explores cultural confusion, identity, family expectations, and the everyday absurdities of living between two worlds.

Taste FOUR exotic alcohols & comedians in a one-of-a-kind experience!

Because nothing brings Australia together like laughter 'n' liquor.

(ALCOHOL TASTING INCLUDED WITH TICKET)

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Barrel Below

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 5 - 6 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 - 20 Sep

From $35 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 5 - 19 Sep

IT'S A MATCH! TINDER COMEDY

IT'S ABOUT TIME

JADE INDIA KELLY

Swipe right on 'It's a Match!' The hilarious heartfelt crowd favourite panel show returns!

Experience love - live on stage, Tinder-style. With stand-up, sketches, & storytelling will have you laughing and maybe even swiping.

It's about time Luke brought his comedy to The Factory. It's about time Simon retired his hit comedy show "There I stood with a Trombone in my hand". It's about time the audience worked out who is funnier.

I've been told my whole life I should do stand-up, so this is me finally giving in and making it everyone else's problem.

Newtown Hotel

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

$30 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 4 - 27 Sep

$28 • 6:45pm • 55m 24 Sep

From $22 • 9:30pm • 30m 24 - 25 Sep

JAY YAMAKI ANYWAY, SHE DIED

JEREMY MOSES IS HARD TO WORK WITH

JEROMAIA DETTO: GIUSEPPE'S LOVE QUEST

After Jay lost his aunt in a car accident, he is left with one question: "Why did the chicken have to cross the road?"

Join a Brit from Japan to remind us that silliness exists!

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GROWN GIRL

A One Man Show about teamwork, tension, and the silent treatment.

Join visually impaired comedian Jeremy Moses for a night of sketches, songs, puppetry and some much needed self-reflection.

From the loins of multi award-winning goofball, Jeromaia Detto, the disarmingly charming Giuseppe Alfresco is desperate to understand how to connect with the world and finally find love!

Newtown Hotel

Factory Theatre

Erskineville Town Hall

$30 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 17 - 19 Sep

From $20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 26 - 27 Sep

From $22 • 6pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

COMEDY

JESUS CHRIST SUMA STAR

Cast as Jesus at the Eastern Mass at my catholic girls' school but more than just a girl behind a fake beard pretending to be the Son of God, being the Saviour of Humanity hasn't been everything I expected.

Marrickville Town Hall $25 • 7:30pm • 50m 8 - 12 Sep

JOSH & JOHNSON (NOT JOSH JOHNSON) Split bill stand up comedy show. Lighthearted and inclusive!

Factory Theatre From $22 • 9:30pm • 60m 17 - 18 Sep

TOBOGGAN

Toboggan sees four comedians deliver sketch, shenanigans and at the end of the show, one big surprise. They promise.

Join Jordan, Mikey, and friends for sketch, improv, and a whole lotta laughs.

Factory Theatre From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 26 - 27 Sep

LILY HENSBY

Bonehead is a rebellion against Lily's perfectionism. This show has no character arc, no through-line and no chance of winning an award. Her bonehead brain gets put to the test as she performs imperfect comedy.

MAYBELLINE'S CLOSE FRIENDS STORY (WIP)

As seen at Netflix is a Joke Festival, starting dancefloors in LA and sneaking out of her Feeld match's sharehouse, award winning comedian Maybelline has stopped throwing herself at men, and is throwing new ideas at wall.

MICHAEL HING - HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO LIVE LIKE THIS?

Life is increasingly insane.

Nothing makes sense.

Everything is chaos, and we're all just expected to keep on going?

Unrelated to all this, Michael Hing is developing a brand new hour of comedy.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

$30 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 55m 3 - 6 Sep

From $22 • 8pm • 55m 3 - 4 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 17 - 20 Sep

MICHELLE AZEVEDO - ALL THAT GLITTERS

MICKEY D - THE CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE APPROPRIATION SOCIETY

MY CAT IS A GAY MAN

Fed up with her own nuance fatigue, comedian Michelle Azevedo attempts to answer the greatest question plaguing our current times; Is there anything left that we can just feel GOOD about? If so, she's going to bloody well find it.

Freya Morton explores her relationship with her cat since he came out.

Unpredictable. Chaotic.

But somehow, precisionengineered. Mickey D, Comedic whirlwind powerhouse returns to Sydney land an unmissable closed-stage performance.

Factory Theatre

The Comedy Store

Factory Theatre

From $22 • 8pm • 50m 24 - 25 Sep

From $42 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 4 - 5 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 1 - 3 Oct

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

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COMEDY

NANNY & HOOT

Two seasoned improvising comedians. No script, no plan, no safety net. Fresh from Adelaide Fringe, Richard Bennett and Tony Starr create a one-off comedic play - grounded, funny, and made entirely in the moment.

NAVIGATING NORMAL - LIAM DALEY

From sharp observations to off-the-cuff wit, you will laugh at how ridiculous "normal" is when you finally say it out loud. Normal won't be defined, it will be absolutely roasted.

NICK HARRIOTT - SECRET SHOW (SHH)

#comedy #music #musicalcomedy #sydney #fringe #solo #show #laugh #fun #content #creator #fyp #xyzabc #weekend #whatson #nearme #whatsonnearmeweekend #2026

Factory Theatre

Newtown Hotel

Factory Theatre

From $22 • 6:45pm • 60m 17 - 18 Sep

$25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 2 - 6 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 55m 5 - 6 Sep

NONSENSE AND SENSIBILITY

NUN SLUT

OFF WHITE

50 minute improvised Jane Austen musical.

An absurd journey through religion, the body and Barnaby Joyce, this awardwinning hour of chaos is a delightful mix of physical comedy, sketch and cabaret. Nun? Slut? It's a spectrum.

We're all on it.

Off White: Sahib Rana's stand-up about living across four countries without fully belonging anywhere. He explores identity, culture, and misread perceptions, as his skin slowly turns white, deepening his identity crisis through sharp, fast stand-up.

Factory Theatre

Fringe on The Rocks

Newtown Hotel

$25 • 9:15pm • 50m 17 - 18 Sep

$45 • 6:15pm • 60m 23 Sep - 4 Oct

From $19.94 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 3 - 13 Sep

TIRED TROPE

Andrew Stokes has definitely aged but never matured. Or is he just completely corked? Can he - can anyone - escape becoming a tired trope?

Factory Theatre $25 • 5pm • 40m 3 Oct

ITS FLIPPING THE SCRIPT

An actor and an improviser meet for the first time on stage.

The actor learned their lines. The improviser didn’t. Can they make it work?

Improv Theatre Sydney From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 4 - 6 Sep

WANNA BE A STAR

Part stand-up comedy, part theatrical meltdown, it's a brutally honest and hilariously chaotic take on ambition, rejection, and the glamour of being a currently unemployed actor. Delusional or desperate? You decide.

Erskineville Town Hall From $25 • 7:30pm • 60m 8 - 12 Sep

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A pink snout? A curly tail?

Mud? This trio celebrate everything piggy. Imagine a pig dressed as a nun, smoking a cigarette. Now imagine 50 minutes of that. Prepare to be oinkdoctrinated.

JOHN GLOVER & ANDY PROCOPIS - SINGLET COMEDIANS

Andy Procopis (gay) and John Glover (gay) are Sydney's only comedians to perform in singlets. Real life besties with biceps Andy and John perform back-to-back sets of new material, in new singlets.

JOKES ABOUT THE TIME I GOT DETAINED IN AMERICA & OTHER STORIES

Upon attempting to enter America Matt suddenly found his plans come to a screeching halt and himself in a secret back room. Hear the kind of travel stories you hope never happen to you.

Factory Theatre

The Comedy Store

Erskineville Town Hall

From $22 • 8pm • 50m 1 - 2 Oct

$25 • 7:45pm • 60m 25 Sep

From $20 • 9pm • 55m 15 - 19 Sep

OLIVER POL: FEATHERBRAINED

JOSH SHEDIAK DOES FUNNY STUFF

JUNGLE WARRIORS

Join New Zealand comedian and silly goose Oliver Pol in a chaotic but charming quest to discover the psychological lessons we can learn from the avian mind.

Or just to have fun, whichever is easier.

An Instagram comedian brings sketch comedy to real life? Strap in for telekinesis, powerpoints (with transitions), fake infomercials and audience participation (shhhh..don't be afraid).

If you're anxious, you'll love it. If not..teach me.

Alex Gonzalez and Yarno Rohling venture into the wild jungle of copyright-free jingles.

Improv comedy with special guests and an unplanned soundtrack, "Jungle Warriors" is unpredictable, absurd, and completely different every night.

Marrickville Town Hall

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

From $25 • 6pm • 55m 15 - 19 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 45m 26 - 27 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 3 - 6 Sep

P-P-P-PARTY

KIYANOSH SAHEBI - RECOGNISE THIS?

LAUGHS WITH LUCE

At 7 years old, Jollee invited their entire street to a slumber party and not a single person came.

Now, they're forcing everyone to be there.

Come with them as they do face masks, bully men on hinge, and rehash old one direction rumours they still haven't gotten over!!

In his debut hour, Sahebi resorts to his dark humour, biting satire and jokeladen style to explore his Iranian roots, his skewed worldview and to express a formal apology for who he is.

Lucy Downeys show shares hilarious stories of her life as a Teacher, Nurse, Mother and Partner.

The all rounder and 'Go for it' attitude of Lucy shines through in this incredible show.

Come and enjoy many Laughs with Luce!

PYT Fairfield

Factory Theatre

Inner West Pride Centre

From $25• Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 30m 3 - 5 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 24 - 27 Sep

$18 • 7pm • 70m 11 - 12 Sep

PARENTING FAILS & FUTURE THERAPY BILLS

PERFECTLY QUEER

PETER GLEESON : AHH WHAT?! NO! LEAVE ME ALONE

We fed them. We loved them. We still disappointed them. Join Kirsty Carr and Chris Knight, for a hilarious split-bill stand-up show about the beautiful chaos of raising kids. Lighthearted, candid, and painfully relatable.

Boy Latte shares his experience of being an asexual person living in a hyper sexual world. Join him as debunking myths and defies misconceptions

Confused. Furious.

Exhausted. That's how this comedian feels about... everything. Watch Peter unravel in real time, one targeted ad away from a full-on meltdown as he tries to make sense of a world that completely refuses to.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Newtown Hotel

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 26 - 27 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 5 - 6 Sep

$27 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 23 - 27 Sep

PROTOTYPE

PUSS PUSS

QUEENS

Edan Mcgovern will do one last show with her body intact. After her previous shows left audiences wondering how could she possibly follow this up, she returns to stage to farewell her physical form.

One cat. Nine lives.

Zero chill.

Local scaredy-cat PUSS PUSS is on an unhinged quest to "not be a pussy," confront her fear of water and finally become the WAP she was born to be in this weird and wonderful clowncharacter-comedy show.

University of Sydney's Queer Revue presents "Queens", a rock-androll filled hour of sketch comedy! Queer Revue is a not-for-profit society that provides a space for young queer people to share queer identity (and queer hilarity!)

Factory Theatre

Erskineville Town Hall

Factory Theatre

From $22 • 7:45pm • 60m 17 - 18 Sep

From $18 • 9pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 26 - 27 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

COMEDY

OINK

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COMEDY

RED, YELLOW, BLAKLISTED

Four of Canberra's sharpest and funniest First Nations comedians take the stage for a night of deadly laughs, bold stories, and unapologetic Blak comedy with the great performers of Cy Fahey, Cameron Ribbons, Jacob Keed and Patrick Vann.

Everyone told Riv Narak to stop doing Indian jokes. Critics. Friends.

Other comedians. Even Indians. No More Indian Jokes is an hour of stand-up that attempts to prove them right and repeatedly fails.

ROAST BATTLE

The biggest, baddest trash-talking comedy competition in the world. If you love rapid-fire insults, razor-sharp joke writing, and unfiltered, no-holdsbarred comedy, this is your VIP pass to the carnage. Four battles, eight comedians, zero filter.

Improv Theatre Sydney

Factory Theatre

The Comedy Store

$20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 - 20 Sep

$10 • 7pm • 60m 24 - 25 Sep

$30 • 9pm • 60m 12 Sep

ROGUE

ROMAN WASN'T BUILT IN A JOSH

RUBEE SOOKEE'S SILLY SAUSAGE FEST.

Georgie dives headfirst into life's absurdities, finding comedy, chaos and heart in the most unexpected people and places. A fast, off-beat, and heartfelt ride through wholesome chaos, unplanned adventures, and embracing a life that's 'off-script'.

Joshua Khoury and Roman Apollonov will knock your socks AND shoes off with an hour of stand-up comedy

This purple-haired-darling of the Sydney comedy scene has got some brand new characters for you to meet! A cheeky, lovable, work in progress, sketch show drops this fringe. Be at the birth of comedy brilliance.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

From $22 • 6:45pm • 55m 3 - 4 Sep

$19 • 6:45pm • 60m 2 - 3 Oct

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 19 - 20 Sep

SAINT OF LOSERS

SAME GIRL: ONLINE NOW

SARAH ISON HOT SEAT

He stands for dorks, dweebs, dinguses, disappointments, screwups, failures, chokers and weirdos. He is the Saint of Losers. Join Dylan as he guides us through the highs and lows of history's most magnificent failures.

An improvised comedy show and 2000s fever dream inspired by real audience stories on early social media.

Whether it's lighting impossible things on fire or locking eyes with Donald Trump, Sarah Ison's life as a comedian and federal political reporter always seems to put her in the hot seat.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

$20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 - 20 Sep

From $22 • 9:15pm • 60m 24 - 25 Sep

$25 • 6:45pm • 60m 1 Oct

SCIENCE DID WHAT NOW?!

SEAN QUINN YOU'LL BE GRAND (AND OTHER COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS)

SEVEN DEADLY SCENES

A gloriously chaotic night of Sydney's most wonderfully obscure and strange science, delivered straight from the researchers.

Hosts Kovi Rose and Rachel Rayner, Science Explainer, will blow your minds with science!

Stand up comedy where therapy meets being Irish.

A journey through a CBT session.

Bring your sins to the theater! We'll turn your secrets into scenes and let you choose how to corrupt them further. Can we rescue our humanity? Can sin be beautiful?

Can virtue be wicked?

Newtown Hotel

Factory Theatre

Improv Theatre Sydney

$30 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 18 - 20 Sep

From $22 • 6:45pm • 50m 17 - 18 Sep

$20 • 8:15pm • 45m 18 - 19 Sep

SHARPER

SHIT BLOKES IN THE BIG SMOKE

SNAPE: LIFE AFTER VOLDEMORT

Just an hour of whip-smart comedy.

'Sharp' - Sydney Morning Herald 'Sharp' - Praise Dionysus 'Sharp' - Fringefeed

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RIV NARAK - NO MORE INDIAN JOKES

Welcome to "Mairnsblane", gatekeeping capital of Australia. Josh Magee introduces you to the insecure dudes you'll meet moving to a new Australian city. Here, *every* man is an island -- come sail the prick archipelago.

Since the Wizarding World's demise, Professor Snape finds himself living amongst muggles, doing Stand-Up. His sarcasm & bitter demeanour make for a great hour of comedy ... obviously.

Factory Theatre

Improv Theatre Sydney

Factory Theatre

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 55m 19 - 20 Sep

From $25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 25 - 27 Sep

From $22 • 9:15pm • 60m 17 - 18 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

Joshua Hauville's brand new comedy show that explores Australian masculinity through stand up and storytelling all through the eyes of a gay man from Penrith who owes his entire existence to the mighty Penrith Panthers.

SORRY, MY MUM WON'T LET ME

Socialising was forbidden.

Chanting "Ricky Martin" was compulsory. Korinna unpacks a bizarre, hypercontrolling upbringing, toxic exes, & the chaos of trying to become a normal person once you're finally allowed to make your own decisions.

STOP, LOOK, THINK- ARE YOU EATING YOURSELF?

Step into a magical world beyond understanding and while you're there can you get me some milk?

Unicorn milk or whatever they have is fine.

Thanks.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

$25 • 9:15pm • 60m 3 Oct

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 24 - 27 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 5 - 6 Sep

STUART FOREMAN: AN ENGLISHMAN IN A BASEBALL CAP

TELEVISION: LIVE

THAT'S ME IN THE CORNER

Stuart has had a crazy year. He's just started wearing baseball caps and he can't wait to tell you all about it.

There'll be other stuff too, if there's time.

The golden age of television is back in all its glory baby!

Join us for a ride through the golden age of TV as we recreate the shows we all grew up on.

COMEDY

SOME HOMO SAPIEN

That's me in the spotlight. Losing my religion?

Gigz, an average as f*** pub muso, confronts the humour, toxicity, and absurdity of Aussie pub culture in a raw and hilarious reckoning through live music and confession.

Marrickville Town Hall

Improv Theatre Sydney

Erskineville Town Hall

$27 • 7:30pm • 50m 15 - 19 Sep

From $20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 11 & 12 Sep

$40 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 1 - 26 Sep

THE B PLOT

Alex Gonzalez is suffering from a nasty case of side character syndrome.

Through stand-up musical comedy, Alex invites you joining her through crashouts as she explores flipping the script and taking back her place in spotlight.

Factory Theatre From $22 • 9:15pm • 60m 24 - 25 Sep

THE DUMMIES GUIDE TO ORGASMS

Dez Craig and Jock McCracken, Scotland's leading sex coach, are on a mission to make sex education so simple even blokes can understand it.

Factory Theatre $25 • 7:45pm • 50m 24 - 25 Sep

THE EX FILES: A COMEDY TRUE CRIME TOUR

Sydney has a dark secret. A crime has been committed - and gay comedian Matt Bell knows where the bodies are buried. Join Matt as he unravels one of the city's most shocking true crimes, a tale of desire, obsession and dating.

Qtopia Sydney From $30 • 7:30pm • 70m 17 - 19 Sep

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COMEDY

THE NEXT BIT

Don't know when a joke is finished...don't worry, your friends from The Next Bit will tell you! Come along to a smorgasbord of standup talent from comedians from around the globe (now based in Sydney).

THE RACIST IMMIGRANTS

Immigrants? Raci*t?!

Whaaa?! An hour of unabashed comedy that will leave you crying with laughter and questioning everything you know about immigrants as it attempts to break all stereotypes. Nothing is off limits.

TRIPPING UP THAT HILL

Inspired by the spirit of Kate Bush, Catherine Crowley's solo cabaret/ comedy show blends storytelling, original songs and physical comedy to explore moving through life with a romantic lens -- and regularly walking into walls.

Improv Theatre Sydney

Barrel Below

Erskineville Town Hall

$19.50 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 4 - 6 Sep

From $20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 2 - 28 Sep

From $30 • 6pm • 50m 1 - 5 Sep

THE STREETS ARE PAVED WITH MURDER

THE UNDEAD COLLECTIVE DOCUMENTARY

WE NEED TO TALK - A COUPLES COMEDY GAME SHOW FOR EVERYONE

In a once-idyllic small town, people are starting to drop like flies - and not everyone is who they say they are. In this improvised murder mystery, you can help catch the killers!

Factory Theatre

For your safety, everything will be filmed. A Ghost, a Vampire, and a Demon have opened their home to humanity. Watch our documentary recounting the social cohesion. Q&A to follow.

East Sydney Community and Arts Centre

Both partners answer the same questions separately.

Then we reveal everything. Who initiates in the bedroom? Who takes longer to get ready?

Couples play. Everyone welcome.

Improv Theatre Sydney

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 - 20 Sep

$34.50 • 8pm • 45m 21 Sep

$33 • 9:30pm • 45m 25 - 26 Sep

THOMAS BLEACH - THE SEALED SECTION

TIM O'HARE: MAYBE I AM THE PROBLEM

WAYNE KING: LIVE

Thomas Bleach returns with a brand new headline show full of hilarious confessions and embarrassing stories inspired by what would be hidden in his Sealed Section if his life was a 2000's teenage magazine.

Tim spent his life always on the outside looking in.

Growing up in suburban Brisbane, he never felt comfortable with his peers, romantic partners or his country and now he is starting to ponder that maybe it's him that's the problem after all.

If you are prone to wetting yourself laughing, please bring a towel and choose exit row seating, thanks Wayne

Factory Theatre

Erskineville Town Hall

Marrickville Town Hall

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 5 - 6 Sep

$27 • 9pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

$25 • 9pm • 40m 15 - 19 Sep

WEAPONS GRADE COMEDY

WHO SAID THAT IN THE GROUP CHAT?

WICKED WOMEN OF COMEDY

Ross Purdy launches an attack on the Sydney Fringe with his brand of weapons grade comedy in this surrealist, irreverent comedy show. Ross Purdy puts the "destruction" in "deconstructionist alt comedy stand-up comedian".

An hour of comedy which is part stand up, part game show.

Wickedly Funny and Dangerous! A night of side-splitting humor with the funniest women in comedy! This is the show you won't want to MISS, featuring the most exciting and hilarious comics on the scene today.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre

Newtown Hotel

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 5 - 6 Sep

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 - 20 Sep

$30 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 3 - 26 Sep

WRITER'S ROOM

Watch the showbiz professionals at work as a team of improvisers come up with a brand new TV show right in front of your eyes, with your help!

Factory Theatre From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 26 - 27 Sep

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Confronting yet beautiful, a journey of love and loss told as an exploration of movement and minimalism. In their debut work, creative duo LUZONEGRA deliver immersive visual storytelling for an evening of experimental dance theatre.

COME WATCH ME DO STUFF

I used to be on TV, and now I'm shamelessly using Fringe to access an audience because I love attention. A showcase of my talents (both real and perceived) with the energy of a child (played by me) forcing their parents (played by you) to sit and watch.

DANCING WITH THE ROOTS

A trance of origin: sounds, gestures, and ancestral memories come alive.

This is a journey of identity, belonging, and intergenerational transformation, where the past and future unite in every step we take.

21 Shepherd

Erskineville Town Hall

PYT Fairfield

From $30 • 7:30pm • 60m 10 - 12 Sep

$27 • 9pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

$25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 25m 10 - 12 Sep

MOTION SICKNESS

PSYCHO OR PSYCHIC

SPOKEN WORD ARTIST PRESENTS: I AM NOT OKAY

Physical theatre at the cutting edge. After collecting 21 awards/ nominations across the Melbourne and NZ Fringe circuit, a2 Company arrive in Sydney for the first time with a fierce, loud, existential crisis at the rave.

Sexy, silly and seriously strange - comedy, physical theatre, characters and play. Goosebumps rise as spirits brush past your sides, these are true stories fleeting before your eyes.

You'll laugh with me and at me until you decide.

What would you get if you took Banjo Paterson's bush storytelling, Edgar Allen Poe's Theatricality, and Catullus'... veracity...? Her name is Alexi Edwards, She's a spoken word artist, And she swears she is okay!

New Theatre

Erskineville Town Hall

Newtown Hotel

From $28 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 16 - 19 Sep

From $28 • 7:30pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

From $30 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 22 - 27 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

EXPERIMENTAL

CHAIR

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DANCE

GIRLS GONE WILD

What begins as a wellness retreat quickly unravels into chaos. Blending dance, comedy, and sharp social commentary, GIRLS GONE WILD explores female rage, toxic-positivity, and what it means to live your "authentic best life".

PACT Centre for Emerging Artists From $29 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 23 - 26 Sep

MOMENTUM

A theatrical dance experience exploring an emotional and physical journey. A visual representation of resilience, growth, and how movement can build into waves of transformation. How one choice, one step, one spark can shift everything.

Future Makers is thrilled to share their freshest ideas in Move FM, a collection of short dance works cocreated and performed by the next generation of leading contemporary dance makers and performers in Sydney.

OVERTURE

An award-winning, immersive dance-theatre work, unveiling the palpable moments before the curtain rises and the performance begins.

21 Shepherd

New Theatre

Eternity Playhouse

From $45 • 7:30pm • 60m 24 - 26 Sep

From $29 • 6:30pm • 60m 23 - 26 Sep

$55 • 9:15pm • 60m 16 - 26 Sep

SITTING GANAAY

SNOW, MOON, AND FLOWERS 雪月花

STRIKE A CHORD

A powerful contemporary dance work exploring grief, invisibility and survival through the story of a Yinarr carrying intergenerational memory, asking what care and responsibility mean for community under ongoing colonial systems.

A stage combining dance, music and reading.

Inspired by 3 pioneering immigrants in Japan, Australia and the USA, it tells their stories by Japanese classical dance and English reading, under the themes of snow, moon and flowers.

A powerful contemporary Flamenco performance led by critically acclaimed choreographer Pepa Molina, featuring live guitar and Flamenco Ensemble Las Flamenkas in an electrifying exploration of rhythm, movement and raw emotion.

Showtime: 8pm

Studio One UNSW

Pottery Lane Performance Space

Eternity Playhouse

$25 • 6:30pm • 40m 16 - 19 Sep

$20 • 8pm • 20m 2 - 3 Sep

From $44.95 • 60m 16 - 19 Sep

TELL DISTANCE

TRISH + TRISHA

"ON THE CUSP"

Two performers glitch, replay, and rewind alongside their digital doubles as they misremember road trip stories in this experimental dance work that intersects choreography, theatre, and projection.

My fascination with Trisha Brown began from a curiosity of what it might mean to share a name: Trish / Trisha / Patricia, and what is possible when we call names into a performative context

Founded by Karen Kerkhoven in 2013, On the Cusp is an uncurated performance made up of unique and diverse artists given complete trust to express.

Studio One UNSW

New Theatre

Drill Hall

From $25 • 8pm • 40m 16 - 19 Sep

$35 • 6:30pm • 50m 16 - 18 Sep

From $30 • 7pm • 120m 18 - 19 Sep

THE POLE SHEBANG

A MOMENT OF (REDACTED)

FLOP

Take a behind the scenes detour on this journey of a gender-rebellious neurodivergent tomboy as she is unexpectedly called up to the most glamorous stage in the pole dancer world!

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MOVE FM

A work which invites you into a world of warped time and space, presenting a universal exploration of our tragic journey of love and weakness. Emerging choreographer Ella Molloy presents her award winning contemporary dance work.

A love letter to the flop era, FLOP by Phaedra Brown celebrates the joy, devastation and compassion that comes with human effort. Made to express the physical and psychological labour of trying really, really hard.

Erskineville Town Hall

21 Shepherd

New Theatre

From $39 • 9pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

From $40 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 45m 17 - 19 Sep

From $35 • 6:30pm • 40m 17 - 19 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

Enjoy a homestyle Malaysian dinner by Sarah Tiong (MasterChef Australia), with food stories from Australia's funniest writers: Farz Edraki, Richard Glover, Alex Lee, Siang Lu, Sarah Malik, and Daniel Nour. Hosted by Jennifer Wong.

FIRE LIGHTING & WELCOME CEREMONY

As we prepare for another explosion of unexpected and Fringe excellence on Gadigal and surrounding country, join us for our fire lighting and Welcome Ceremony. With dancers, storytelling and ceremonial fire lighting up Stanley Street.

FRINGE IGNITE!

Sydney Fringe 2026 launches on Stanley Street with a free, high-energy celebration featuring roving performers and a spectacular lineup spanning circus, dance, music and performance art. One night. Don't miss it.

Hurstville Entertainment Centre

Stanley Street

Stanley Street

From $79 • 6pm • 210m 10 Sep

FREE • Times at sydneyfringe.com • 60m 29 Aug

FREE • 3pm to 10pm 29 Aug

FRINGE ON THE ROCKS WILDCARD

FRINGEVILLE

LANE COVE @ SYDNEY FRINGE LAUNCH EVENT

Wildcard drops a oneoff performance into Rocks Square. Bold, unpredictable, and drawn from the very best of the Sydney Fringe program. Come curious and expect the unexpected.

South-West Sydney takes centre stage as Fringeville transforms Hurstville Plaza into a one-night celebration of music, fire, dance, and street food.

Free, all ages, bursting with local talent and alive with Fringe spirit.

EVENTS & PARTIES

FEAST

Something's happening at The Canopy, and you're invited. A free, family evening of music, cabaret, dance and circus - celebrating the best of what's Made in Lane Cove. Roving performers and unexpected surprises for all.

Fringe on The Rocks, The Rocks Market

Hurstville Plaza

The Canopy

FREE • 11am to 2pm • 180m 5 - 26 Sep

FREE • 6pm to 9pm • 180m 12 Sep

FREE • 5pm • 240m 4 Sep

SHORTS OFF: CREATIVES JAM SESSION

A meet and play session for content creators. Team up, make fun digital shorts, and screen them - all in one afternoon.

Come collaborate, experiment, and let loose.

Haymarket HQ $35 • 3pm • 240m 13 Sep

YALGALI X EORA OPEN MIC NIGHT

Check out local Mob as they take to the mic with their freshest work. Gather your aunties and mates to make some noise as you step into the spotlight. Maybe walk away with a prize that marks you as Sydney Fringes Deadliest new talent. Visit website to register.

Eora Tafe $15 • 6:30pm • 150m 8 Sep

THE BIG TOP DRAG BRUNCH

We'll bring the Big Top, you bring the Bottoms!

Grab a CINCiN Spritz and join RuPaul's Drag Race Stars Hannah Conda, Etcetera Etcetera, Coco Jumbo and Vybe hosted by Sydney Drag Royalty's Charisma Belle and Carmen Geddit.

Entertainment Quarter $69 • 1:30pm • 120m 29 Aug

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

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IMMERSIVE & INTERACTIVE

AIDAN BANNISTER: MAGIC

A Night of Infinite Secrets, Wonder and most importantly... MAGIC. A Night the Whole Family Will Never Forget. Join Aidan Bannister in a sophisticated, high-energy, and deeply interactive magical experience!

Albert has written a poem every day since the 15th of February 2017. He's kept a diary for almost as long.

Come join a conversation about what dates mean to us. Share a day that's special to you. Listen to others'. There is a poem for every occasion, and every date.

DEAR STRANGER AT FRINGE ON THE ROCKS

What would you write to a stranger? Pen a letter, receive one in return, and add a line to a neverending story on a typewriter.

For curious souls of all ages.

Newtown Hotel

Lane Cove Civic Centre

Fringe on The Rocks, The Rocks Market

$30 • 7:45pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

$25 • 6pm • 50m 17 - 19 Sep

FREE • Drop in from 10am to 4:30pm 5, 12, 19 & 26 Sep

DEAR STRANGER AT LANE COVE FESTIVAL

ESCAPE FROM FLAMINGO HOUSE

FEVER DREAM

What would you write to a stranger? Perfect for curious kids, Dear Stranger invites you to pen a letter, receive one in return, and add a line to a never-ending story on a vintage typewriter.

Trapped within the ominous walls of a stunning pink mansion, RPG meets Escape Room in this unique scaled-down puzzle adventure. A miniaturised game with oversized charm and deadly stakes. (75min game, 2-4 players.)

Step through the door of a legendary Sydney band room and lose yourself in Fever Dream, where live music, myth, and glorious chaos collide and the night takes you somewhere you didn't expect.

The Canopy (near Birdwood Lane)

Marrickville Town Hall

The Lansdowne Hotel

FREE • Drop in from 10am to 2pm 30 Sep - 4 Oct

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 75m 11 - 30 Sep

$38 • 8pm • 120m 26 Sep

KURTFORMANCE ART

PISS BE WITH YOU

PLAY.

This Performance Art piece invites audience members to make an impact on society... via their puppet; the performer. Will you participate as puppeteer?

Or sit back and watch the beauty (or possible chaos) unfold?

Gather and be guided by Reverend Rapture to the holy spot betwixt pleasure and piss. Laughter (and legs) will be spread through sapphic sermon, and sensual pole dance debauchery.

a show about play... for grown-ups. armed with a book of stories, a box of games, and a smart too bright to smother, robbie is looking for someone to play with.

Erskineville Town Hall

Eternity Playhouse

Erskineville Town Hall

$30 • 9pm • 50m 22 - 26 Sep

$35 • 8pm • 60m 11 Sep

From $20 • 7:30pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

PUBS & POETS - A LITERARY STUMBLE THROUGH OLD SYDNEY

RITUALS

SINGALONGA PUB QUIZ

Uncover Sydney's literary underworld on a walking tour that maps the city's grit, glamour, and dark history to the iconic prose and poetry it inspired.

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DATE AND TIME

Weaving First Nations practice with artists inspired by Indigenous traditions globally.

An immersive, free experience where intimate conversations, dance, video mapping, installation art, and live music honour ancestral knowledge through contemporary practice.

Award-winning Piano Cabaret that's a 'Singalong' and a 'Pub Quiz'. You not only get to sing the songs you know and love, but also test your knowledge while joining in the fun and games.

Barangaroo Metro Station

Machine Hall

Marrickville Town Hall

From $20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 150m 1 - 27 Sep

FREE • 2pm • 360m 13 Sep

From $25 • 7:30pm • 60m 24 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

If you only see one show this fringe, make it this one.

Expect backflips, one arm handstands, incredible human pyramids, spinning in giant wheels and more awesome feats by this award-winning cast of performers. Perfect for the whole family.

CAPTAIN ADVENTURE MAN Join Captain Adventure Man (AKA Dizzy, of The Giant Balloon Show fame) on a brand-new underwater adventure!

Games, dancing, pirates and balloons await in this interactive family show!

CREATIVE SCIENCE: MIND BLOWN

A super-fun science show, packed with improbable biology, fascinating physics tricks, staggering space science, and incredible chemical reactions.

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

From $25 • 3pm • 60m 5 Sep - 11 Oct

$19.99 • 2:50pm • 45m 2 - 5 Oct

$30 • 2:50pm • 50m 26 - 30 Sep

I COULDN'T FIND A BABYSITTER

JURASSIC DOWN UNDER

PARTY ANIMALS

A clown show about motherhood.

There will be animals.

For audiences aged 1 month to 1200 months.

Join Ben the Dino Ranger and the Jurassic Guardians on a wild adventure to find the Lost Crystal! Packed with dinosaurs, music, circus, and teamwork, this ROAR-some theatrical experience is fun for the whole family.

Get ready to get WILD with the ultimate jungle jam for kids and their grown-ups! From the creators of 'KABOOM!' and 'The Greatest Magic Show' - this kids disco is packed with charts-topping pop hits, retro dance favourites and non-stop energy!

Pottery Lane Performance Space

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

$29 • 11am • 60m 1 - 3 Sep

Prices @ sydneyfringe.com • 4:30pm • 60m 28 Sep - 11 Oct

From $23 • 9:30am • 60m 30 Sep - 11 Oct

SWASHBUCKLING CIRCUS

THE FLYING BUBBLE SHOW

THE GIANT BALLOON SHOW

Aimed at 6 - 12 yr olds,

Nominated for best kids Melbourne Fringe 2024.

Set sail on a laugh-filled voyage of acrobatic amazement and rib-tickling fun. This isn't your ordinary circus, it's a pirate extravaganza.

A meditative performance weaving bubbles, circus, storytelling and sound into a sensory tapestry of breath, beauty and heart.

"The perfect combination of gags, tricks, and great music."

Take everything you know about balloons, add an award-winning entertainer, an 80s soundtrack, and twist that into a hilarious show for the whole family.

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

From $25 • 1:30pm • 60m 29 Sep - 4 Oct

From $30 • 10:30am • 60m 12 Sep - 11 Oct

From $22 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 12 Sep - 11 Oct

THE GLOW SQUAD

THE GREATEST MAGIC SHOW

TRASH TEST DUMMIES CIRCUS

Part concert, part circus, part dance party, all GLOW! Join the awardwinning The Glow Squad for an interactive family show packed with aerials, fire acts, drumming, original music, dancing and unforgettable fun for children to discover their inner glow.

'A RIOT of energy and entertainment!'

The multi-award-winning, sell-out SMASH HIT is returning to Sydney these school holidays magical mayhem that the whole family will love! FREE MAGIC WAND on entry!

Tonight's bin night and the Trash Test Dummies are on duty! This "Delightfully intelligent, highly entertaining" (Herald Sun) slapstick circus comedy takes the household wheelie bin to new heights, and delivers a dump-truck full of hilarity!

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

From $30 • 1:30pm • 60m 30 Sep - 4 Oct

From $27 • 12pm • 60m 26 Sep - 11 Oct

From $32 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 19 Sep - 11 Oct

YELLING AT CHILDREN

BEN’S MAGICAL FRIENDS

It takes a special kind of performer to interact with children in this way. An immersive circus/clown, spectacular, where the children are the show. Creating an infectious environment of pure joy, Mr Shaggles will make his world, your world.

Join Ranger Ben and Fairy Melsa on a magical journey filled with circus, unicorns, dinosaurs, fairies, and more! A wholesome, theatre-based show that the whole family can enjoy.

Entertainment Quarter

Entertainment Quarter

$25 • 4:10pm • 55m 26 Sep - 4 Oct

Prices @ sydneyfringe.com • 10:50am • 60m 26 Sep - 11 Oct

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

FRINGE KIDS

ALL STAR CIRCUS

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VISUAL ART & DESIGN / TALKS

LANE COVE ART AWARD

Established by artists, Lloyd Rees, Guy Warren, William Pidgeon and Reinis Zusters, the Lane Cove Art Award is one of Sydney's longest running community art prizes.

Celebrate the incredible talent of Australian artists and bold works from across the country.

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CONSYDERATION

Sydney Speculative Scribes and WestWords have partnered to present an event for speculative fiction writers (science fiction, fantasy and its subgenres) to meet as a community, explore ideas, refine craft, and form lasting connections.

FEAST: CHAAT SHOW EDITION

Explore a world of Indian home cooking with Flyover Fritterie founder Gunjan Aylawadi, MasterChef Australia star Depinder Chhibber, and comedian Suraj Kolarkar, hosted by Jennifer Wong (Chopsticks or Fork?). Includes chai and chaat!

Gallery Lane Cove

WestWords Centre for Writing

Hurstville Entertainment Centre

FREE • 6pm • 120m 18 Sep

See price & times @ sydneyfringe.com 11 - 13 Sep

From $40 • 3pm • 120m 12 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

Hear the sitar like never before. Every night is unique, with live collaborations from local artists and musos. Expect an interactive, genredefying experience that breaks all the rules.

BANJ-O'CLOCK HOSTED BY KLEZMER VALLEY GIRLS

A feast of styles including clawhammer, bluegrass, klezmer and awardwinning Irish tenor banjo. Four stellar acts and roaring harmonies enrich this celebration of Africa's gift to the musical cosmos.

BASEMENT SPACEMAN : APOLLO 17 (3 DAYS ON THE MOON)

Basement Spaceman's sonic storytelling takes us on the last Apollo mission to the moon with highly original compositions, set to carefully curated visuals direct from the NASA archives.

Pottery Lane Performance Space

Sean & Dolly's

Marrickville Town Hall

From $15 • 6:30pm • 55m 25 - 27 Sep

$30 • 7pm • 240m 24 Sep

$27 • 9pm • 50m 22 - 26 Sep

BREKO'S BIG MUSIC BINGO

EMPIRE STRIKES UP THE BAND

GAMER JAZZ

The GOAT of Sydney Music Bingo returns!

Three BIG music rounds of Party Bangers, mixed with crowd karaoke, dance-offs and incredible prizes! Join Breko & friends for a wild night out! Sequins attire recommended.

An award-winning journey through the musical worlds of Star Wars. Experience the sweeping majesty of "Binary Sunset", to the heart-pounding action of "Duel of the Fates", and even some reimagined compositions by the legendary Max Reebo.

Saxophonist and bandleader James Sewell takes an S-Tier team of players on a speed run through video game music, featuring reimaginings of Nintendo themes by Koji Kondo to sweeping orchestral sounds of Martin O'Donnell.

Paddo RSL

Eternity Playhouse

Eternity Playhouse

$55 • 7:30pm • 180m 25 Sep

From $28 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 3 - 5 Sep

From $28 • 8pm • 60m 2 - 4 Sep

GHOSTS: WHERE THE STAIRWAY LEADS...

IN THE KEY OF G

INHERITANCE

BY TONI JANKE A BOLD AND DEEPLY MOVING JOURNEY OF UNCOVERING

GHOSTS is a genredefying musical invocation for voice and harp, shattering expectations of what this pairing can be, inspired by longing, unfinished stories, and voices that refuse to fade.

Four Sydney composers.

Emerging local performers. Renowned improvisers. Contributing in real time, for the first time. In the Key of G is a celebration of new music, creativity and the unexpected, live at George Place.

A poetic and musical journey into identity, resilience, and the sacred bonds that connect us across time.

Campbell St Presbyterian Church

George Place Foyer

Eternity Playhouse

$50 • 6:30pm • 60m 19 Sep

$5 • 5pm • 90m 29 Sep

$50 • 8pm • 60m 23 - 26 Sep

MATCH PERCUSSION TRIO

MIDNIGHT STRANGERS SHINJUKU TO KINGS CROSS

PASS PAUSE PLAY SECOND BIRTHDAY

Virtuosic, vibrant, rhythmically charged Jazz, African and Latin influenced music for mallet percussion (vibes and marimba) and hand percussion (cajon and shakers). Mostly original music with some covers included.

Tokyo nightlife meets Kings Cross soul in this immersive live music experience blending trip-hop, jazz, electronic grooves and atmospheric storytelling from internationally recognized vocalist Paula Terry.

PASS PAUSE PLAY celebrates two years of songs and stories in Sydney. For it's 20th instalment, this show will feature artists teasing out the link between old songs and fresh ears.

Lane Cove Civic Centre

Sean & Dolly's

Nauti Studios

$25 • 7pm • 60m 12 Sep

$44.95 • 7:30pm • 90m 4 - 5 Sep

From $15 • 6:30pm • 90m 1 Sep

PLAIN BAD HEROINE

RADIOHEAD UNCOVERED: HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY

RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE SHOW

A bold and experimental queer feminist retelling of Faust, combining music, poetry, movement, and fibre arts. This powerful performance weaves artistic disciplines to explore intersections of knowledge, power, community, and love.

12-voice ensemble, Eklektika reimagines the haunting music of Radiohead through choral & instrumental music, specially created video & CGI. An immersive multi-media experience.

Want to hear your favourite Fleetwood Mac songs in a live, familyfriendly outdoor setting?

Pull up a picnic rug and experience the magic of Fleetwood Mac from the Rumours tribute show!

Studio One UNSW

Eternity Playhouse

The Canopy

From $20 • 6:30pm • 45m 23 - 26 Sep

From $10 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 2 - 5 Sep

$18 • 6pm • 180m 26 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

MUSIC

AN AUGMENTATION OF SITAR BY RAVI

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MUSIC

SHUHADA

In 1992, Shuhada (Sinéad O'Connor) took her mother's portrait of the Pope to Saturday Night Live - and ripped it to pieces - shattering her pop career in one swift sweep, whilst igniting her legacy as a fearless social activist.

Abandoning her religion - Deepening her faith.

SONGS FROM OUR BACKYARD - SOULFOOD A CAPPELLA

Celebrating the launch of Soulfood's latest album, join us as we lift The Canopy with warm harmonies and familiar Australian pop favourites from the last 50 years.

We dare you to not sing along!

STORYTELLER

Drawing on folk tales, poetry, and horror films, Melanie Walters presents a recital of contemporary flute works that weaves stories through music and text. The program includes compositions

by Nathalie Joachim, Amy Beth Kirsten, and Andrew Ford.

Qtopia Sydney

The Canopy

Erskineville Town Hall

From $25 • 6pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

FREE • 6pm • 80m 25 Sep

$27 • 6pm • 55m 1 - 5 Sep

STUDIO GHIBLI JAZZ CONCERT

THE CORPOREAL LIFE OF SEAFARING

THE JUDY BAILEY BAND - AT YOUR REQUEST

Join us for an enchanting evening of jazz-infused interpretations of beloved Studio Ghibli melodies, led

by Japanese trumpeter and vocalist Nana Koizumi and her jazz quintet.

An original song-cycle by Byron Davis that explores identity, obsession, and dysphoria. This offbeat gig-theatre show confronts our notions of self in an intimate journey through Sydney's winding rivers and shores.

A jazz night where the audience writes the set list. Iconic jazz pianist and Lane Cove local, Judy Bailey, is sharing her band with us for this very special intimate evening in an unexpected location - a Council foyer!

Pottery Lane Performance Space

Church Street Studios

Lane Cove Civic Centre

$30 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 4 Oct

$24 • 8pm • 60m 4 - 6 Sep

$20 • 6pm • 90m 11 Sep

THEREVELLA PRESENTS... RAGE EP LAUNCH.

UPWARD SPIRAL

PLASTIC ONO BAND: REWIRED

Cyber Punk Poetry.

Futuristic Beats.

Apocalyptic Bass.

Truthfully Told. Visceral. 'therevella' produces vibrant soundscapes.

Stories of loss, grief and redemption, inspire.

Laugh, dance, get lost in 'therevella's' world.

Let us take you on an upward spiral journey with sublime original songs that will engage all your senses.

An intimate live work exploring vulnerability, grief, identity and release through reimagined songs from the Plastic Ono Band, performed by Lisa Wood and John Phillips (Not Drowning, Waving). Premiered in Nakajima, Japan.

Sean & Dolly's

Vine Church

Marrickville Town Hall

$40 • 7pm to 11pm • 240m 26 Sep

$45 • 7:30pm • 90m 26 Sep

From $22 • 6pm • 55m 24 - 26 Sep

HOLY ORDER OF THE CONFUSION SOUND

Embark on a journey of lyrical transformation through the lands of love, revenge, magic, death, rebirth and insects. Confusion Sound invite you to attain states of intentional derangement through punk folk magic, ceremony, and songs.

Petersham Bowling Club From $20 • 6pm • 180m 6 Sep

UT T CHECK KOIDS GHUEI DE FRINGE

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C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

A gumtree is where it all happens. Summer is the time of year. The road is the path forward. Take a glimpse into the lives of a couple of country men and the stigma that surrounds men's mental health and suicide.

ALAN BENNETT'S TALKING HEADS

1992. An actress and a housewife in a library.

Step inside, browse the shelves and overhear confessions of chasing fame and a shocking murder. This sold out London production stars Home & Away's Sophie Dillman.

ALGORITHM OF US

A romantic comedy set in corporate Australia: An analyst builds an AI agent that gets taken over by consultants - forcing her to choose between her ethics and the consultant she shouldn't be falling for.

Qtopia Sydney

Woollahra Library at Double Bay

Pottery Lane Performance Space

$35 • 6pm • 50m 15 - 19 Sep

From $39 • 8:45pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

$59 • 7:30pm • 90m 16 - 19 Sep

ALL THINGS MUST PASS: A PLAY ABOUT THE BEATLES

AQUATIC AFFAIRS

BECAUSE THERE WAS FIRE

An intimate, time-bending exploration of friendship, fame, grief, and the legacy of music. In the wake of John Lennon's death, Ringo, George, and Paul navigate grief through heartfelt, darkly funny scenes.

A comedic play depicting the absurd and true story of controversial 1960s NASA experiment; when America's best scientists fuelled by psychedelics and millions in funding began attempting to teach dolphins to speak English.

On a warm summer night, two teens disappear without a trace, fleeing to the outback on a reckless, crime road trip.

But escape isn't that easy, and fires can burn beyond control.

Pottery Lane Performance Space

Qtopia Sydney

The Actors Pulse Playhouse

$35 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 90m 10 - 13 Sep

$35 • 9pm • 70m 8 - 12 Sep

From $15 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

BECOMING BENNO

BREAKING POINT: AN IMPROVISED REVOLUTION

BULLIED BY MY WII FIT

What was to be his first hour as an Aussie becomes one of uncertainty when Ben is detained by Australia's notorious Border Force. With a heartfelt script and irrepressible performance, this is about keeping spirits up when moving Down Under.

Have you ever been so angry the unimaginable seemed logical? This fully improvised show follows ordinary people pushed past their Breaking Point as they decide to challenge the system that undermines them.

A retrospective about everyones favourite gaming console: The Wiiiii!

Get ready for some hands on learning, as our team provides you with a simple 10-step guide as to how to accurately play the Wiiiii.

Erskineville Town Hall

Factory Theatre

Erskineville Town Hall

From $28 • 9pm • 55m 1 - 5 Sep

From $22 • 7pm • 55m 3 - 4 Sep

From $22.50 • 6pm • 50m 22 - 26 Sep

BURSTING INTO LIFE

CARE INSTRUCTIONS

COLD WAR 2.0

An original theatre offering based on Shakespeare's 12th Night, Different Degrees Theatre Ensemble shares what would happen if they were in charge, from changes in everyday life, to theatrical reimaginings of the universe.

(WIP)

A performance about the performance of care. Spin, tumble and lie flat to cry - I mean dry.

A new work in progress from award-nominated artist Alison Eaton.

A phantasmagoric punkshow from the twilight of global crisis by 'Theatrical Saboteurs', 'Postmodern Genius', 'The Worst': Doppelgängster. Cheap illusions, slam dancing, and frenetic antitheatre featuring the 'Abhorrent & Dangerous' performance duo.

Pottery Lane Performance Space

Erskineville Town Hall

Fringe on The Rocks

FREE • 6pm • 45m 30 Sep

$20 • 7:30pm • 50m 1 - 5 Sep

From $29 • 6:15pm • 70m 9 - 20 Sep

COLOSSUS

DEMO

DISTILLATION

When you're all alone, you have to be your own best friend. COLOSSUS is the story of Michael, a young man with two brains on a mission of discovery. Join Michael on his journey, and uncover the secrets of the soul.

An interactive performance about the moment thinking becomes tribal. It is playful until it isn't. And once you've started choosing, you are already inside it.

A multi-sensory performance which transports you to the Irish bog landscape through scent. An olfactory encounter exploring our human relationship to place.

Erskineville Town Hall

Qtopia Sydney

Vaucluse House

$27 • 6pm • 40m 15 - 19 Sep

$25 • 6pm • 45m 23 - 25 Sep

$35.20 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 22 - 25 Sep

C URIOSIT Y S TAR T S HE RE | 1 –3 0 SE P TE MB E R

THEATRE

A GUM TREE ON SUMMER ROAD

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THEATRE

DISTORTION

Mia is a burnt-out OnlyFans model. She wakes up in the bedroom of Max - an insecure librarian resorted to looksmaxxing - and his AI assistant, FOS. As they wait out a violent storm, their stark differences, and unexpected similarities, begin to surface.

DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB

Grace and Ruby manically put together a last minute performance for a share house annual talent show.

While simultaneously discussing everything ever, and beating all their dead horses, will they get it done on time?

DRUG BABY

Incredible true story of a young man who grew up with drug-addicted parents. In this award nominated show, Troy presents a journey from dark to light, giving a vulnerable performance exploring his past through poetry, song, and dramatic story-telling.

The Actors Pulse Playhouse

Erskineville Town Hall

Erskineville Town Hall

$38 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 70m 16 - 20 Sep

From $22.50 • 9pm • 45m 8 - 12 Sep

$35 • 9pm • 60m 8 - 12 Sep

EPICARICACY

FINAL TWO

FORGET ME, PLEASE

The underbelly of the party world brings out the worst in us. This psychological drama follows a group of teenagers as they experiment in their first year at university. Savannah, Leah, Addy and Guy learn how gossip can be twisted and spread with drunken intentions.

Two finalists. One eligible bachelor. And one dead contestant clawing their way back for revenge.

Final Two is a campy queer horror-comedy packed with ghosts, hijinks, and absolute televised carnage.

An intimate contemporary story of love, memory and how trauma reshapes human connection.

Tender, funny and devastating, it asks what remains when memory slips away, can love survive forgetting?

The Actors Pulse Playhouse

Qtopia Sydney

Old Fitz Theatre

$35 • 7pm • 60m 10 - 12 Sep

From $33 • 9pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

From $25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 1 - 12 Sep

GET (YOUR FISH) LIVING OR DIE TRYING (TO SAVE YOUR FISH)

Nobody wants their pet to die. But nobody is like Marina, who will actually do something about it. Snowball and Marina have a platonic plot to be best friends forever.

It's very serious.

Inner West Pride Centre From $22 • 8pm • 55m 17 - 19 Sep

GIA OPHELIA

Struggling with infertility and a stalled acting career, Gia wants to play Ophelia one last time.

Annie Stafford stars in this award-winning 2025 Sydney Fringe hit, written by Grace Wilson and directed by Jo Bradley.

Pottery Lane Performance Space From $35 • 8pm • 60m 25 - 27 Sep

GROWING PAINS: TEACHING BODY

Three PDHPE teachers have noticed holes in the Sex Education Curriculum.

Coming together as T.I.T.S. (or Teachers Improving Teaching Skills) they fill them the only way they know how: sports metaphors, PowerPoints and dance breaks.

Erskineville Town Hall From $20 • 6pm • 50m 15 - 19 Sep

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When his cousin Reynauld comes a knocking at his New York City Apartment, 14th Century French knight Jean-Paul must come up with the perfect alibi to dodge conscription into the Hundred Years War.

INFLUENCE

With scandal threatening a powerful philanthropic trust, cynical adviser Keely is branded an unlikely influencer in a desperate attempt to save face - until the spotlight begins to change her too.

JUST ENRICHMENT

Two strangers perform high-wealth status on a dating app to escape their unglamorous lives, only to find that fantasy and financial reality are incompatible lovers. A transactional comedy where love, lies, and lotto come with the most unexpected price tags.

Petersham Bowling Club

Erskineville Town Hall

Erskineville Town Hall

$20 • 7pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

$28 • 9pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

$27 • 6pm • 55m 1 - 5 Sep

"HAMLET"

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN ABRIDGED

THE DEVIL IN HER UNDIES

Why's everyone obsessed with war and power?

Fate has cast Hamlet as the avenging hero, but Hamlet's more interested in philosophy and writing riffs with Ophelia than bloody vengeance. Live rock music performed by cast.

All of Austen. All of the props. All of the chaos.

Three performers in a fastpaced, laugh-out-loud romp packed with quick changes, countless characters, mayhem and endless Regency nonsense.

A new darkly surreal comedy from Big Dog about the physiological toll of uncertainty and the radical act of giving yourself permission - to fail, to fall, to be "bad," and to keep going anyway.

The Greek Theatre at Addi Road

Qtopia Sydney

Qtopia Sydney

From $30 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 140m 23 - 27 Sep

From $28 • 7:30pm • 60m 1 - 5 Sep

From $25 • 6pm • 60m 1 - 5 Sep

ICHOR

THE HAPPIER PLACE

THE LAST SINGLE GIRL IN SYDNEY

Through energetic, physical, and ritualistic movement, this work explores conformity, belonging, and identity as a young man is pushed beyond his comfort zone and confronted with the tension between expectation and self.

When Val - a Singaporean DJ - interviews a sociallyconscious content creator, the chirpy on-air conversation soon spirals into a heated debate. Also, what horrifying cataclysm is happening in the outside world that listeners are frantically calling in about?

Meet Poppy, who is determined to prove she's happy single and can party on forever. Hilarious and fiercely relatable, Nikita Waldron's one-woman show is a whirlwind journey of singledom while everyone else is getting married.

PACT Centre for Emerging Artists

Qtopia Sydney

Erskineville Town Hall

$35 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 2 - 12 Sep

$35 • 7:30pm • 60m 1 - 5 Sep

$30 • 7:30pm • 60m 8 - 12 Sep

INCURSION

THE RETURN PLAY

THE RIVER GHOST

This chaotic dark comedy throws students into a wildly inappropriate "life education" class by the disturbingly familiar puppet giraffe, Nutritious Nelson. Things quickly spiral as they're taught the lessons you definitely weren't taught in school.

When God decrees that all martyrs will return, a grieving father in Gaza waits beneath the clouds for his daughters to come home in a world of magical realism where truth and illusion collide.

"You'd do anything for me, except let me go."

The River Ghost, a gripping and heartfelt exploration of selfdiscovery, fragmentation and loss through theatre and music. Written by Anna Rushmer.

The Actors Pulse Playhouse

The Greek Theatre at Addi Road

Flow Studios

From $33 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 90m 29 Sep - 3 Oct

$35 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 90m 1 - 27 Sep

From $28 • 6pm • 50m 23 - 27 Sep

LOVE THY HATER

MAHABHARATA TO GO

MS MARY PENNYMOORS

A camp, queer, religious satire about two gay best friends, trying to survive their last three months at an All Boys Catholic School. Their friendship is tossed into the deep end as Theo begins to hallucinate Sexy Jesus.

The world's longest epic as a vivid onehour theatrical journey.

Michaela Krimmer, joined

by Indian live music, blends humor, storytelling, and vibrant visuals with timeless questions of truth, values, and inner clarity.

I am going to becharmance you with my accomplishmentery. Using my bedazzlementship, I shall-forth reverse mama's shame and disinheritanceness. Ergo-fore, perhapshire I shan't die hungry, alone, and riddled with preventable diseasestation.

Flight Path Theatre

Tom Mann Theatre

Factory Theatre

$30 • 7pm • 100m 22 - 26 Sep

From $16 • 7pm • 60m 25 - 26 Sep

$25 • 5:15pm • 45m 3 Oct

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JEAN PAUL DOES NOT WANT TO, UM, HOW YOU SAY, GO TO WAR!

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MY GRANDPA DOESN'T FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: A GUIDE TO TRANSGENERATIONAL ROAD-TRIPPING

Multi-award winner Yoz Mensch performs her critically acclaimed show in its Sydney debut.

Berry Dorrison is a ruthless teenager who will stop at nothing to follow in her father's footsteps and become the next Prime Minister of Australia. Her plan is foiled by her not-so-loyal twink sidekick, Teddy, who summons lesbian Satan to ruin her life.

NO PHO NO FAAN

Two young women, two journeys to Australia. A sinking boat, a hospital ward. Decades later Cuc and Tiang meet for pho or faan - noodles or rice - to stitch and reminisce. "We didn't know the rules. Just two hungry women - pretending we belong."

New Theatre

Qtopia Sydney

Erskineville Town Hall

From $18 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 23 - 26 Sep

$35 • 9pm • 60m 1 - 5 Sep

From $20 • 6pm • 50m 8 - 12 Sep

NOT NIGELLA

ODIE

PIGEON

Custard ought to feel like the inside of an 18th century courtesan's inner thigh; are we allowed pleasure, yet? Nigella (or, at least a brunette in a cardigan) has a few questions... What does it mean to cook, post-feminism? Unwittingly, she's rallied the Buxom Resistance.

A one man, high-language, low-brow odyssey for the discerning modern Australian hooligan.

Awkward encounters, absurdity, feeling lost in your 20's, and a story that sits somewhere between realism and dream logic.

What begins as a chance encounter between two strangers unfolds into a deeply human conversation.

Erskineville Town Hall

Erskineville Town Hall

Qtopia Sydney

$25 • 7:30pm • 40m 8 - 12 Sep

$27 • 7:30pm • 60m 15 - 19 Sep

From $28 • 9pm • 55m 15 - 19 Sep

PRETTY UGLY

QFWFQ

SALTWATER GIRLS

Blending song and story in an intimate, conversational tone, Theo Chen tackles those pesky inner-demons we all encounter (the ones that tell us we're not attractive "enough") in his cathartic and moving solo show.

Winner of Best Solo at the Hollywood Fringe. Inspired

by Italo Calvino, and touching on improvised music, Zionism, genocide in Gaza, architecture and trans identity, it neither begins, nor ends. How does it come together?

A new work by Lana Filies blending storytelling, movement and memoir to explore queer girlhood, Catholic school and Sappho. Directed by Amelia Gilday, this confessional, darkly funny work examines growing up queer amid public debate.

Qtopia Sydney

Qtopia Sydney

Erskineville Town Hall

$35 • 9pm • 60m 1 - 5 Sep

$30 • 7:30pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

From $22 • 6pm • 50m 8 - 12 Sep

SEXT ME, I'M BORED

SHE SAYS

SHE'LL BE RIGHT

Told to change your appearance, your words, your actions and yourself to please some lame unrealistic version of who you're 'meant to be'? Here is your tribute, rant and apology for every moment you were left questioning your wonderful self.

Or American Psycho for Corporate Bullies. A ruthless advertising exec is called in to speak with HR. She assumes it's because of the murders she's committed. It's actually because she's been accused of bullying.

It's 2014. Kik is alive, Hunger Games is peak, and 15-year-old Elise is trying to earn her HSC: Hot Slut Certificate. A cringey, dark and chaotic show about girlhood, sexual politics and surviving Year Nine.

Qtopia Sydney

Nauti Studios

Erskineville Town Hall

$37 • 9pm • 55m 8 - 12 Sep

From $25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 90m 9 - 13 Sep

$27.50 • 6pm • 55m 22 - 26 Sep

SON OF HERCULES

SORRY I'M LATE

SPECTRUM

Erskineville Town Hall

From $33.50 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 1 - 5 Sep

The myth of Hercules, told not through the hero's triumphs, but through the eyes of his son and the overlooked wife.

This mask-theatre show blends humour and heartbreak, exploring the family drama behind myth.

$27 • 6pm • 45m 22 - 26 Sep

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Mackenzie is stuck in a strange room with Dorothy. 2025 Sydney Fringe winner presents a new darkly satirical play exploring the fear of wasted time in a culture obsessed with youth, technology and visible success.

The Actors Pulse Playhouse

What does it feel like to move through a world not built for you? A solo performance intimate enough to feel like a secret, Spectrum is a poetic plunge into the neurodivergent mind.

Unapologetically raw.

Erskineville Town Hall $30 • 7:30pm • 55m 15 - 19 Sep

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Pink cars, a Barbie picnic van, and a girl desperately trying to grab the steering wheel of her own life.

Childhood memory collides with Disney princesses, revving engines, and the myth of happily ever after.

SQUATCH WATCH: LIVE

A hilarious cryptozoological deep dive into the world of sasquatch hunting. An action-packed live show that brings audiences breakthrough research, bizarre theories and undeniable proof of the Australian Yowie - all live onstage.

TCHOCOLATL

THEATRE

SPRFRK

Join Pa the Traveller Clown on a globe-trotting adventure in search of chocolate. A blend of physical comedy, cultural storytelling, and interactive fun for audiences of all ages.

Erskineville Town Hall

PACT Centre for Emerging Artists

Entertainment Quarter

From $28 • 7:30pm • 50m 22 - 26 Sep

$35 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 23 - 26 Sep

From $20 • 2:50pm • 50m 1 - 7 Oct

THE WORST OF US.

THEY COME TO WATCH ME DIE.

THE BLOODY CHAMBER

Follow The Bride in this adaptation of Angela Carter's gothic thriller, to her new husband's castle by the sea, where she discovers the horrors that await her in the depths of the castle.

Folio From $50 • 7:30pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

THE FOOL (OR, FRANCESCA GISELLE)

From acclaimed director Chenoeh Miller and Little Dove Theatre Art, a deeply human dance theatre work about survival, sisterhood, and continuing after life has brought you to your knees.

PACT Centre for Emerging Artists $37 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 16 - 19 Sep

THE MAN

Tax makes Ben anxious.

He's been hoarding receipts all year. Now, he has to go through them.

And the audience are going to help. Jo Bradley (Gia Ophelia) directs James Graham's darkly funny interactive monologue.

Pottery Lane Performance Space From $25 • 6pm • 75m 1 - 4 Sep

THE UNBURDENING

Real life drama and sharp comedy collide when Dad helps chronically ill Ash declare independence and leave home. What will they learn about each other and what's with Ash's obsession with "Lord of The Rings"?

One storyteller. Three stories. An eruption of music, spoken word, and hope - woven from anonymous confessions of the worst things people have ever done.

In a show filled with mystery, magic, and impossible feats, Humphrey Cornthwaite brings to life the incredible story of Harry Houdini, the greatest magician who ever lived. But will Harry survive the performance?

Erskineville Town Hall

Erskineville Town Hall

Erskineville Town Hall

From $24 • 7:30pm • 50m 22 - 26 Sep

From $24.50 • 7:30pm • 60m 8 - 12 Sep

$25 • 7:30pm • 50m 1 - 5 Sep

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'THIS SHOW CONTAINS CONFETTI'

Tally is begging security for handfuls of confetti after the concert, washed in euphoria. Across town, Joan is sitting in the living room, sifting through years of memories thrown in handfuls across the carpet.

The Actors Pulse Playhouse From $15 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 55m 22 - 26 Sep

WAITING FOR CHLOE

A coastal balcony. A bucks night going nowhere. She was booked hours ago.

She's definitely coming.

Probably.

An existential comedy about mateship, longing, and what finally arrives.

Erskineville Town Hall $30 • 9pm • 45m 1 - 5 Sep

THIS WAS ALL A FRUITLESS ENDEAVOUR REALLY...

Two low-rank goons transport clowns to their Boss's birthday party - how badly can they f**k it up? Prepare for farce, slapstick, Beckett references, too many props, and the possibility somebody dies.

Erskineville Town Hall $15 • 9pm • 60m 1 - 5 Sep

WERNER HERZOG AT VIDEO JUNGLE

In the 2020s, acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog works in one of the last surviving video rental stores in suburban Sydney.

Business is drying up faster than a local kid can pinch a Golden Gaytime from the freezer.

The chaotic life of an overly emotional 30-something year old navigating an everchanging world.

ZEIBEKIKO

A trans man learns to dance with his demons (and his Greek heritage) in an attempt to exorcise masculinity. Through music, movement and encounters with gender, Theo Carroll's body becomes a ritual site of grief and transformation.

Qtopia Sydney

Improv Theatre Sydney

Erskineville Town Hall

From $26.25 • 6pm • 60m 8 - 12 Sep

From $10 • 7pm • 60m 25 - 27 Sep

$28 • 7:30pm • 60m 22 - 26 Sep

LANDED

STAGE SOLDIERS

THE SLEEPOVER

Legendary theatre group Frumpus unleash their indefinable brand of lovingly handmade silliness. Three shifty women and their fanged sock puppets embody disco yetis, haunted embroiderers, and grotesque actresses in a collision of performance, music and filmscapes.

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YOU'RE SO SENSITIVE

A semi-autobiographical work about gender transition while growing up in a military household.

Complete with military drill, bubbles, and a giant pig, In this experimental mixed-media solo play Kady Robinson takes you on her journey of self discovery and acceptance.

Bring your sleeping bag and pillow, come share a night.

PACT Centre for Emerging Artists

PYT Fairfield

Studio One UNSW

$35 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 50m 2 - 12 Sep

$25 • Times @ sydneyfringe.com • 60m 3 - 5 Sep

From $22 • 8pm • 50m 23 - 26 Sep

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