Your summer festival.24 days, over 130 events.
Be wowed
From Festival exclusives to blockbuster must-sees.
Treat the kids
Family-friendly entertainment for the summer holidays.
Do it on a shoestring
Free and affordable events for summer
Discover new music
From around the world, these artists are your future frequencies.
Hear the classics
Music from the contemporary and classical Canon.
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A tale of fame, fortune and danger
Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1 Theatre
$49 - $129 + BF
A wonderland of art and play for kids
Pier 2/3
$23 + BF
History is told by victors. This story is told by the vanquished
Sydney Town Hall
$89 – $119 + BF
Epic, unpredictable, world-class circus
Riverside Theatres
$49 – $89 + BF
A political Greek tragedy for the 21st century
Roslyn Packer Theatre
$69 – $119 + BF
Sublime, explosive dance from Stephanie Lake
$69 – $109 + BF
The true crime story of Shirley Beiger
Darlinghurst Court House
$69 – $129 + BF
The iconic singer plays hits from his technicolour songbook
Sydney Opera House
$59 – $139 + BF
Celebrating Sydney’s great storyteller, with Elena Kats-Chernin
$59 – $89 + BF
Curated by First Nations hip-hop group 3%
Barangaroo Reserve
FREE
Trapeze talent sky high
Palm Grove, Darling Harbour
Weaving together our hopes for the future
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
A full-swing festival takeover by the water
Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
Artmaking and paving paths for Asian Australian storytelling
$15 + BF
A gathering space for talks, workshops and performances
Time and space explored in a Thirsty Mile artist takeover
Step up and take your leap of faith
$49 + BF
A bubblegum pop cabaret with heart
A brand new comedy disco musical by Vic Zerbst
ATYP, The Rebel Theatre
$37 – $68
An evening of music, performance and handsome harbour views
Yoga and blissed-out beats in the Colour Maze
Celebrate Summer with Peruvian Nights at the Australian Museum
Australian Museum
A celebration of Australia's brilliant women
$49 – $79 + BF
A queered Filipino ghost story by Justin Talplacido Shoulder
Carriageworks
$59 + BF
A royal treat for opera lovers and newcomers
$79 – $389 + BF
Sonic clusters and chaotic energy collide through sight and sound
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Street and club culture in full force
Bell Shakespeare, The Neilson Nutshell
Let your imagination run wild
The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
Celebrating stories and sharing connections
Bankstown Arts Centre
12 nights of free live music and DJs
Moonshine Bar
Night-time art-making, talks and live music
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
A time-travelling tapestry tracing centuries of song
ACO On The Pier
$79 – $89 + BF
Examining artistic perspectives and multimedia responses to water
$25
Language, loss and reclamation
$39
Sex, secrets and a city of lies
Belvoir St Theatre
$56 – $97 + BF
The new star of soul’s Australian debut
City Recital Hall
$79 + BF
Barnstorming circus for all ages
The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland
$69 + BF
Jazz, electro-funk and R&B with irresistible grooves
$39 – $49 + BF
Honouring the trailblazers of the National Black Theatre
$25 + BF
Sharpen your street dance moves with Azzam Mohamed
Sydney Dance Company, Neilson Studio
A Punjabi-Australian star on the rise
$39 + BF
There's a suprise around every corner
Exploring the hidden worlds of young people
An intimate aural experience in the iconic garden
Wendy's Secret Garden
Explore street dance elements with Azzam Mohamed
Surreal visions, extraordinary sounds from Omega Ensemble
Indulge in the rich essence of Spain
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
$58 – $190 + BF
The favourite starlit concert returns
The Crescent
Reimagining classics from the king of neo-soul
Fast-moving choreographic fun with Stephanie Lake
$30 + BF
Exhilarating, form-bending French jazz
$49 – $59 + BF
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of a masterpiece
$69 – $99 + BF
First Nations relationships to urban space and architecture
Chau Chak Wing Museum
Vibrant Latin jazz
$49 – $69 + BF
Honouring Country through dance, installation, planting and story
The Studio Theatre at Bangarra
A boundary-breaking dance celebration
Parramatta Town Hall
From Bach and Haydn into our own century
A sumptuous audio-visual experience and song cycle
Paying tribute to a trailblazer, alongside fresh album material
A spectacularly immersive concert-installation hybrid
$65 – $125 + BF
The East London troubadour subverting British folk
The art-rock band and PNG musicians reunite
Spiritual jazz, electronica and dub from Bristol’s finest
An all-encompassing showcase of multiculturalism in Sydney
Australian National Maritime Museum
Lush jazz from local favourites and special guests
$59 – $69 + BF
A call to action from the Murrawarri-Filipino rapper
Plunge to the depths of the Earth
$150
A waterfront welcome with live performances
Wonderment awaits in this interactive underwater world
Bondi Pavilion
Celebrating the Kamilaroi and Tongan artist’s sophomore album
Theatre with a hard twist
The R&B sensation makes her Australian debut
Fall hard for Australia’s new synth-pop queen
$29 + BF
The bard of Redfern returns to the stage
$85 + BF
A hilarious musical about childish grown-ups
A requiem for Eurydice
$49
A chaotic nexus of wheels, dance and parkour
Seymour Centre
They're just saying what you've already been thinking
An immersive Wild West fantasy
$35 + BF
Sonic rhythms and responses to the moving body
Exploring Bach's celestial themes
Jazz-folk magic from a Ukrainian rising star
A club night celebrating the Detroit home of house
A dazzling celebration of Darwin, drag and Tina Turner
Ethereal Icelandic art-pop
Taut, tumultuous rock from one of our country’s best
Groove with Sydney’s best-kept music secret
Unusual crimes, trials and stories from Sydney's underworld
State Library of NSW
Surreal humour and cyber futurism
$35
Australia’s first retrospective of the celebrated surrealist
A contemporary exhibition interrogating the importance of water
Embracing multiculturalism and co-existence through art
A season of immersive sound and video art
forumprojects gallery
An exhibition 3,000 years in the making
$23 – $43
Ecstatic celebrations play out across seven monolithic screens
A major career survey of one of the most significant painter of a generation
$28 + BF
A major installation celebrating local stories and culture
Bundanon
$18
Honouring a long lineage of shell artists
A conversational, Pacific-led call for climate justice
Artspace