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
An untold story of the Wild (Wild) West
Sydney Town Hall
$89 – $119 + BF
Barnstorming circus for all ages
Riverside Theatres
$69 – $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
Listening to First Nations voices
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
A royal treat for opera lovers and newcomers
$79 – $389 + BF
A waterfront welcome with live performances
A brand new comedy disco musical by Vic Zerbst
ATYP, The Rebel Theatre
$37 – $68
Wonderment awaits in this interactive underwater world
Bondi Pavilion
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
Celebrating the Kamilaroi and Tongan artist’s sophomore album
ACO On The Pier
$39 + BF
Theatre with a hard twist
The R&B sensation makes her Australian debut
City Recital Hall
$59 + BF
Fall hard for Australia’s new synth-pop queen
$29 + BF
12 nights of free live music and DJs
Moonshine Bar
The bard of Redfern returns to the stage
$85 + BF
A hilarious musical about childish grown-ups
A requiem for Eurydice
Bell Shakespeare, The Neilson Nutshell
$49
A chaotic nexus of wheels, dance and parkour
Seymour Centre
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
They're just saying what you've already been thinking
Sonic clusters and chaotic energy collide through sight and sound
Art Gallery of New South Wales
An immersive Wild West fantasy
$35 + BF
Sonic rhythms and responses to the moving body
Sydney Dance Company, Neilson Studio
$30 + BF
Inspect art under the cover of night
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Exploring Bach's celestial themes
$79 – $89 + BF
Jazz-folk magic from a Ukrainian rising star
$49 – $59 + BF
A club night celebrating the Detroit home of house
A dazzling celebration of Darwin, drag and Tina Turner
$49 – $79 + BF
Ethereal Icelandic art-pop
Taut, tumultuous rock from one of our country’s best
$69 + BF
Groove with Sydney’s best-kept music secret
$59 – $69 + BF
Unusual crimes, trials and stories from Sydney's underworld
State Library of NSW
A bubblegum pop cabaret with heart
A celebration of Australia's brilliant women
A queered Filipino ghost story by Justin Talplacido Shoulder
Carriageworks
Street and club culture in full force
Let your imagination run wild
The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
Celebrating stories and sharing connections
Bankstown Arts Centre
A time-travelling tapestry tracing centuries of song
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
$79 + BF
The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland
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
A Punjabi-Australian star on the rise
There's a suprise around every corner
Exploring the hidden worlds of young people
$15 + BF
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 for one-night-only
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
Exhilarating, form-bending French jazz
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
A call to action from the Murrawarri-Filipino rapper
Plunge to the depths of the Earth
$150
Surreal humour and cyber futurism
$35
Australia’s first retrospective of the celebrated surrealist
A major career survey of one of the most significant painters of a generation
$28 + BF
A contemporary exhibition interrogating the importance of water
A major installation celebrating local stories and culture
Bundanon
$18
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
Honouring a long lineage of shell artists
A conversational, Pacific-led call for climate justice
Artspace