DAWN CHORUS

5:30am SYDNEY BEACHES

Few places can match the splendour of Sydney's beaches at sunrise. Add the angelic voices of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and you have a very special Festival event.

THE WAR OF THE ROSES - PART 1

1:00pm SYDNEY THEATRE AT WALSH BAY

The Sydney Theatre Company Actors Company presents The War Of The Roses, an audacious epic of language and history. Joining the cast is STC Co-Artistic Director Cate Blanchett, on stage in Australia for the first time in almost five years.

BEING HAROLD PINTER

2:00pm BELVOIR ST THEATRE

BELVOIR STREET THEATRE: Wild, anarchic theatre at its purest. Scenes from Pinter's plays and extracts from his Nobel Prize speech transform into a harrowing account of real life in Europe's last dictatorship.

FESTIVAL FIRST NIGHT - JANUARY 10

2:00pm FESTIVAL FIRST NIGHT

Join us for an epic, all-embracing celebration of our Festival and our city this January 10. The Festival explodes onto open-air stages, with major international artists from all over the world kicking off three weeks of inspiration, jubilation & perspiration.. and it's ALL FREE!!

THE WAR OF THE ROSES - PART 2

7:00pm SYDNEY THEATRE AT WALSH BAY

The Sydney Theatre Company Actors Company presents The War Of The Roses, an audacious epic of language and history. Joining the cast is STC Co-Artistic Director Cate Blanchett, on stage in Australia for the first time in almost five years.

BEING HAROLD PINTER

8:00pm BELVOIR ST THEATRE

BELVOIR STREET THEATRE: Wild, anarchic theatre at its purest. Scenes from Pinter's plays and extracts from his Nobel Prize speech transform into a harrowing account of real life in Europe's last dictatorship.

MOVIES IN THE OVERFLOW

8:30pm THE OVERFLOW, SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK

Sydney Olympic Park is offering a fabulous range of free films under the stars this January.