Sydney Fringe Festival has launched its 2025 offering with over 460 events and more than 2,900 artists set to take over the city in September. 

Spanning four precincts and 10 hubs, the 2025 edition is the first under the watch of SFF’s recently appointed CEO Patrick Kennedy, who brings more than 15 years’ experience to the role. A producer, marketer and founder of UK-based agency We Are I Am, he has worked in the independent sector and on major productions including Mary Poppins, & Juliet and The Phantom of the Opera. 

Artists of the 2025 Sydney Fringe Festival. Photo © Daniel Boud

This year’s program sees the return of audience favourites, an array of new initiatives, and the long-awaited reopening of the Eternity Playhouse in Darlinghurst – now the new home of the Off Broadway Hub. Kicking off with a free street party in The Rocks on 4 September, the festival will span traditional venues in the Inner West and East, Bondi Pavilion, the Eternity Theatre in Darlinghurst, pop-up performance spaces in...