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A fair-skinned woman with curly red hair looks quizzicaly at the camera, one eyebrow slightly raised and a playful expression on her face. She wears a formal black jacket over a light blue blouse, which is unbuttoned, giving her a somewhat devil-may-care attitude. This is Kerri Glasscock, the outgoing Director and CEO of Sydney Fringe Festival.
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What I learned from 12 years at Sydney Fringe Festival: Kerri Glasscock

As she leaves Sydney Fringe to take up the reins as Executive Director of Create NSW, Glasscock shares some of…

An androgynous figure, their head tilted to the left, raises one sardonic eyebrow with the help of a plastic hand pointer on a metal stick. Digitally drawn green lines swirl behind them. The image also features two small sets of cascading tiles bearing the text '404 error message. Try again?'.

Sydney Fringe Festival teases 2025 program with new works from local, interstate and overseas creatives

Taking its lead from the major arts festivals, Sydney Fringe – which last year presented 500 events to 100,000 attendees…

'The Rapture', featuring Cleo Rapture, Miss Peaches, Mama Medusa and Marlena Dali. Four performers standing in low purple lighting striking a pose.
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Performance review: The Rapture, Sydney Fringe Festival

Cleo Rapture returns with a strip circus confessional.

A Middle Eastern man in a green fluro top is holding a slice of watermelon.
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Comedy review: Big Nose Big Dreams, Sydney Fringe Festival

A debut solo show from an Egyptian-Australian writer and comic who avoids the usual diaspora stories.

An Indian man, Delhi Buoy, in a white T-shirt and a black cap is standing with his arms spread out.
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Comedy review: The Racist Immigrants, Sydney Fringe Festival

POC comedians indulge and take a swipe at ethnic stereotypes.

Two people are seated with sheafs of paper between them on a table in 'Two Strangers Walk Into a Bar'.
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Theatre review: Two Strangers Walk into a Bar..., Sydney Fringe Festival

An immersive experience awaits in this participatory production, which invites questions about human connection. 

A long haired young woman in glasses wearing a brown shirt and smiling at the camera.
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Late bloomers: going from corporate to comedy

There are those who are 'born in a trunk' and there are those who spend time in the corporate world…

A colourful group of Sydney Fringe performers, including a drag queen, a puppet and puppeteer and others, pose with the Sydney CBD skyline in the background.
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Active participation an emerging trend at Sydney Fringe 2024

Why just watch an arts event when you can take part in it?

Artists dressed in pink and purple promote their show on a grey street at Edinburgh Fringe.
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Fringe festival furore as state’s US$32 million arts budget vetoed

Fringe festivals have reacted with shock to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ vetoing all arts funding on the basis that some…

Tender. A tangle of naked bodies on a steel cube against a black background.
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Performance review: Tender, the Vault, Sydney Fringe Festival

This circus cabaret hybrid explores a disassembling of gender constructs in its fluid meld of bodies.

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