The passionate work that challenges you to feel something

The passionate work that challenges you to feel something

Choreographer Meryl Tankard has joined composer Elena Kats-Chernin to create an ambitious new dance composition called Kairos.

  • byNick Galvin

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Whisked away to another world by mystical beauty

Whisked away to another world by mystical beauty

Tar virtuoso Hamed Sadeghi weaves a subtle spell in his latest work.

  • byJoyce Morgan andJohn Shand
The dangerously ambitious show that makes Cirque du Soleil look tame

The dangerously ambitious show that makes Cirque du Soleil look tame

A broken plank on opening night of Sydney Festival’s highest energy show demonstrates the risky business of being an acrobat.

  • byGarry Maddox
Twin Peaks meets Fawlty Towers:The Sydney Festival show you can sleep through

Twin Peaks meets Fawlty Towers:The Sydney Festival show you can sleep through

The Sydney Festival is taking its audience to parts of the city they have never ventured before – and providing a lucky few with a place to rest their heads.

  • byHelen Pitt
Is there nothing Charlie Chaplin’s grandson can’t do?
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Is there nothing Charlie Chaplin’s grandson can’t do?

James Thierree’s surreal Sydney Festival show is a tour de force for the multi-talented performer.

  • byJohn Shand
The fantastical art duo paying homage to ‘queer saints’

The fantastical art duo paying homage to ‘queer saints’

The fantastical art duo are saluting LGBTQ heroes in their show,Bloodlines.

  • byLenny Ann Low
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Invisible thread unites musicians from across the globe
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Invisible thread unites musicians from across the globe

Dutch composer Louis Andriessen brings together Amsterdam’s Asko|Schönberg Ensemble and Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring.

  • byPeter McCallum andHarriet Cunningham
Charlie Chaplin’s grandson James Thierree on life as a ‘circus freak’
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Charlie Chaplin’s grandson James Thierree on life as a ‘circus freak’

The multidiscipline performer is back in Australia,wanting to make audiences celebrate the chaos of COVID-19 in his new show,Room.

  • byHelen Pitt
Warrior woman Barangaroo inspires new Sydney Festival show

Warrior woman Barangaroo inspires new Sydney Festival show

Artist Brenda L Croft honours warrior woman Barangaroo in a series of portraits scattered around the Sydney Harbour foreshore.

  • byLinda Morris
Dark,unflinching production unmasks serial rapist Don Giovanni
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Dark,unflinching production unmasks serial rapist Don Giovanni

David McVicar’s conception of Mozart’s opera finds nothing of charm or comedy in the behaviour of its chief protagonist.

  • byPeter McCallum
From Matilda to musician:How Montaigne’s career path changed

From Matilda to musician:How Montaigne’s career path changed

Singer Montaigne,also renowned as a Twitch streamer,is tackling a new challenge as part of this year’s Sydney Festival.

  • byHelen Pitt