Bookings open for the 2025 Sydney Fringe Festival including free events

• Tickets are on sale for the Sydney Fringe Festival, which runs from September 1-30.
• More of the events will be announced closer to the date.
• It’s the 12^th year of the Sydney Fringe Festival, and there are some new collaborations with the Canberra Theatre Centre and Merrigong Theatre Company.

Sydney’s quirkiest and most unique festival has opened early bird bookings for the first highlights of its 2025 program.

The Sydney Fringe Festival – known for its avant-garde and mind-boggling performances – will be taking over the city from September 1-30.

It’s the 12^th year of the Sydney Fringe Festival, and there are some new collaborations with the Canberra Theatre Centre and Merrigong Theatre Company.

Showcasing the best of Sydney’s independent theatre-makers, festival staple Made in Sydney presents two incredible contemporary works across two weeks at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists. 

Multi-award-winning theatre maker, writer and actor Charlotte Otton brings her darkly comedic one-woman show I Watched Someone Die on TikTok about the unsettling experience of navigating today’s digital hellscape; and Māori artist Daley Rangi will present their show Takatāpui, a deeply personal exploration of their lived experience of gender, sexuality and culture.  

For the first time, Sydney Fringe is teaming up with Canberra Theatre Centre’s NEW WORKS program to present Made in Canberra at PACT. Delivered straight from the nation’s capital, this week-long program includes an inventive dance experience SUPERPOSITION by Gabriel Sinclair and Jazmyn Carter informed by principles of quantum mechanics and incorporating a continually evolving soundscape; and the Sydney premiere of actor and playwright Christopher Samuel Carroll’s thrilling solo performance The Cadaver Palaver: A Bennett Cooper Sullivan Adventure. 

Presented in collaboration with Merrigong Theatre Company’s MERRIGONGX, the inaugural Made in Wollongong program will feature local independent works including The Cardinal Rules, an innovative eulogy inspired by actor, theatre-maker and clown Rose Maher’s Catholic upbringing; and new musical work Dear Diary by Kay Proudlove, taking audiences on a journey through a collection of intimate and vulnerable stories and songs. 

Featuring a diverse lineup of boundary-pushing shows from the international Fringe circuit, the Touring Hub finds it home once again at New Theatre in Newtown. Highlights include prolific Singaporean playwright and performer Jo Tan’s one-woman show King. A tour de force performance examining stereotypes, gender construction, and discrimination, the work tells the story of a public relations executive who decides to attend an office party in the guise of a man.

Joining the program is leading Danish performance company Himherandit Productions’s electrifying, high-intensity dance work Mass Effect exploring physical endurance and group dynamics; spooky, all-ages fantasy adventure Shadow Necropolis, featuring cinematic Japanese shadow puppetry; and Melbourne-based emerging theatre collective Pummel Squad’s madcap work of self-discovery Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Following on from last year’s critically acclaimed Drink Rum With Expats, UK Fringe icons Sh!t Theatre are back with Or What’s Left Of Us, a heartwarming new show on folk music and grief. 

Chinese-Australian writer, comedian, and food enthusiast Jennifer Wong returns to Hurstville Entertainment Centre with her sell-out show FEAST, as well as the brand new FEAST (Baked Edition); and Hurstville Plaza will come alive for Fringeville, celebrating the local flavours and creativity of Southwest Sydney.  

There is a range of free events, and for some performances, tickets start from $20.