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Sydney festival 2016

2016 Sydney festival

9 September 2016

  • Kate Miller-Heidke in The Rabbits.

    I love theatre and I’m blind. Here’s how that works

    Ria Andriani
    Ria Andriani became blind at the age of five as the result of glaucoma. Thanks to tactile tours and audio descriptors, it hasn’t stopped her enjoying theatre

27 January 2016

  • Ephemeral City Barangaroo<br>The Ephemeral cardboard city is pulled down at Barangaroo this afternoon on the final day of the Sydney Festival, Australia Day Tuesday 26th January 2016. Photograph by Mike Bowers Guardian

    Cardboard city: Sydney festivalgoers demolish giant creation – in pictures

    It took weeks to create and just minutes to destroy. The ‘Ephemeral City’ in Sydney featured a series of mammoth cardboard constructions built by visitors to the Sydney festival. The community project was hauled down on Tuesday before festivalgoers stomped the artwork into the ground

25 January 2016

  • Simon James Phillips

    Exit Ceremonies review – two glorious and infuriating new pieces for organ

    Australian composers Simon James Phillips and Austin Buckett show there’s still more to the pipe organ than fugues and The Phantom

24 January 2016

  • Mexrrissey concert at Enmore theatre on 23 January

    Mexrrissey review – Morrissey songs get a joyous Mexican makeover

    Latin-infused versions of Morrissey songs aren’t lost in their Spanish translation, but smartly manage to honour the originals and take the audience for the ride

22 January 2016

  • Joanna Newsom performs at the Sydney Opera House

    Joanna Newsom review – unadulterated magic at Sydney Opera House

    A virtuoso on both piano and harp, the singer brings an electric charge to a stormy Sydney night

20 January 2016

  • Djuki Mala dancers

    Djuki Mala review – playful Yolngu dance numbers from cheeky YouTube stars

    Arnhem Land troupe formerly known as the Chooky Dancers turn tradition on its head with thrilling interpretations of Michael Jackson, Gene Kelly and Barry White

15 January 2016

  • Cut the Sky dress rehearsal

    Cut the Sky review – angry and political story told through dance and theatre

    Multi-faceted, fast moving, political and dark, Marrugeku’s latest work gives an Indigenous perspective to climate change

10 January 2016

  • Wayne Coyne, lead signer of the Flaming Lips, performs during a free music event – part of Sydney Festival – in the Domain, Sydney, Saturday.

    The Flaming Lips review – sound issues fail to burst Wayne Coyne’s bubble

  • A free music event – part of Sydney Festival – held in The Domain, Sydney, Australia, on 9 January 2016. Flaming Lips headlined this year's festival, on the festival's 40th anniversary. Photo by Jonny Weeks for The Guardian

    The Flaming Lips light up Sydney festival – in pictures

9 January 2016

  • Franz Woyzeck (Felix Knopp) and Marie (Franziska Hartmann) from Woyzeck at Sydney festival 2016.

    Woyzeck review – a feverish look into the mind of a madman

    Georg Büchner’s 175-year-old story of working-class hardship and sexual rage takes on new resonance in contemporary discussions around family violence

8 January 2016

  • Alan Cumming

    Alan Cumming: 'Being more vulnerable and authentic is part of my journey'

    The performer returns to cabaret for a series of shows in Melbourne and Sydney. While they may be sappy, he tells Van Badham, they will also be funny

6 January 2016

  • Indigenous songwriter Kev Carmody

    'Bloody oath': Kev Carmody on politics, Paul Kelly and music industry battles

    At his friend Paul Kelly’s urging, the revered Australian songwriter revisited his unreleased songs – and the result is not so much an album as an avalanche

4 January 2016

  • Kate Miller-Heidke in The Book of Sand. Playing at Sydney festival in 2016, The Book of Sand is an interactive song cycle inspired by the theme of ‘infinity’ in Jorge Luis Borges’ stories.

    Kate Miller-Heidke: opera's former 'bratty upstart' tackles a tragic Australian story

    The Rabbits co-creator and star on the challenge, ‘as a whitey’, of staging the Shaun Tan-John Marsden story of colonialism, and the ‘huge onus’ to do it justice

28 December 2015

  • Avant-garde American theatre artist Robert Wilson in 2011.

    Robert Wilson: the art my generation produced won’t be seen in 50 years

    Avant-garde theatremaker on the genius of Lady Gaga and why contemporary artists such as Marina Abramović will become a ‘footnote’ in history

4 August 2015

  • Performance of Desdamona (reworking of Shakespeare's Othello by Toni Morrison, directed by Peter Sellars) features Malian singer/songwriter Rokia Traore (left), Fatim Kouyate and Bintou Soumbonou (vocals) and actress Tina Benko (sitting) at the Barbican Hall, London, on 18 July 2012. Photo by Mark Allan

    Peter Sellars: Shakespeare wasn’t racist, he was an 'unbelievably subtle' writer

    With upcoming Melbourne and Sydney performances, the director of Desdemona, and its lyricist Rokia Traoré discuss working with Toni Morrison
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