Sydney Fringe Festival 2026 program includes a free street party
New South Wales’ largest independent arts festival returns this August, bringing more than a month of theatre, comedy, music, dance, cabaret, circus and more to Sydney.
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Sydney Fringe Festival 2025 was one for the record books, posting the highest ticket sales and largest number of participating artist’s in the festival’s 15-year history
Sydney Fringe Festival had a record-breaking year in 2025
It’s official: Sydney Fringe Festival 2025 was one for the record books, posting the highest ticket sales and largest number of participating artist’s in the festival’s 15-year history. Across September, the Sydney Fringe’s $15 flash sale accounted for more than 6,000 tickets sold in a single day. But Fringe’s success was a month-long affair, breaking
Review: Naughty, and whole lot of fun – Something Wicked sums up Sydney Fringe Festival 2025
Sydney Fringe Festival dimmed the lights on its 2025 outing this weekend – but it’s already being hailed as one of the best.
6 Sydney Fringe Festival highlights you can still get tickets for
It’s the last week of Sydney Fringe Festival, with the brunt of the experimental event folding up the end of this month. And what a month it’s been, bringing in a tremendous amount of daring stage shows, saucy cabaret and immersive art with hundreds of events loading up the 2025 program. There’s been a lot
Review: Scientology The Musical — see it before the lawyers move in
When a show has “see it before we get sued” in its performance description, it’s hard not to be intrigued. But this show is about Scientology, the so-called religion better known for its Hollywood A-list members… and for litigation. George Glass, actually a trio self-described as an “art rock band” from Adelaide, confronts the controversy
Review: ‘A Succulent Chinese Musical?!’ puts meme humour in a headlock
Turning memes into musicals is a pointed comment on how absurd life has been since “going viral” became a household phrase. And yet here we are, at the Sydney Fringe Festival, seated in Darlinghurst’s beautiful Eternity Playhouse while the life of “notorious crim” Jack Karlson is cleverly retraced with as much theatricality and laugh-out-loud humour
Review: Nun Slut is Sydney Fringe Festival’s most blasphemous satire. Just don’t tell Barnaby Joyce
I went to see Nun Slut, a blasphemous comedy that is one of this year’s most-talked about shows at the Sydney Fringe Festival.
Sydney Fringe Festival is BACK and we got a preview of some of this year’s hottest acts
The Sydney Fringe Festival has officially returned, and we got a sneak peek at some of the highlight acts, at the brand-new venue. Read on to find out more.
Sydney Fringe Festival 2025: Your guide to all precincts
Sydney Fringe Festival may be a way off yet, but we’ve got our first glimpse at this year’s program. Returning for its 16th year, the festival will expand north of the bridge for the first time and Western Sydney is even more present across the program. With an estimated 490 events taking place at more
The 10 best shows at Sydney Fringe Festival this year
The daring, dazzling and at times dangerous Sydney Fringe Festival is back for another year of eccentricity, oddball mayhem, playfully slick performances, and alt-comedy. Sydney is the midst of great chance, investing heavily in its longstanding arts festivals and really leaning on creatives to help move this city into the next phase, beyond its beauty
