The 2017 Festival features 150 events, almost half of which are free. The Festival’s program was recently unveiled by Wesley Enoch, the Festival’s new and first indigenous Artistic Director at the State Theatre on 26 October 2016.
Big ticket items …
Tom Wait’s and Kathleen Brennan’s music and lyrics performed by a glorious band and sung by the talented actors of the Thalia Theatre, Hamburg is what I took most away from this exciting Sydney Festival production. Much of the music …
Since 2004 Circa has been creating powerful works of circus art that blur the lines between movement, dance, theatre and circus. Under the direction of Yaron Lifschitz the dynamic trio of two male and one female acrobat use everything at …
Sydney Festival has announced that Wesley Enoch as the incoming Festival Director for a three-year tenure from 2017-2019. He will take the reins from Lieven Bertels, who completes his term in 2016, marking the Festival’s 40th anniversary.
Wesley is currently …
This Theatre Des Bouffes Du Nord production combined a quirky Chekhov one act play with classical French comedic theatre techniques along with powerful classical music to bring off a great night’s entertainment.
The quality of the musicianship was superb – …
LONG GRASS tells the story of living rough in Darwin, and mixes traditional Aboriginal mysticism with the harsher realities of indigenous life. The show touches on many issues facing the Aboriginal community there: unemployment, domestic and alcohol abuse, and it …
What happens when you collide a world class exponent of the nonverbal with an educated audience of festival goers? If tonight’s performance of TABAC ROUGE is any indicator, there are those who huffily and noisily walk out during the performance …
Archie Roach’s concert, CREATION, opened at Sydney Festival’s fabulous The Aurora, a Spiegeltent style construction. It was a pleasure to hear this iconic performer singing and telling his memorable stories in such a stunning location.
Children feature prominently in the …
“Fifty is my first, Nothing is my second, Five just makes my third, My fourth a vowel is reckoned.”
Bring your children to Sydney Opera House to see this world premiere production delivered in a manner that is well beyond …
January is a lazy languid time in Sydney, so it’s slightly unfair that the art lover’s idylls should be rudely interrupted – but in the best possible way – by the massive feast of cultural events that is the Sydney …