Ten must-see shows at Sydney Festival

On the eve of the 2015 festival, here are our hot tips as to the shows you absolutely shouldn’t miss in this year’s program.
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Image: Yana Alana via www.sydneyfestival.org.au

First held in 1977, the Sydney Festival has grown into a lively celebration of the city’s cultural life; the embodiment of Sydney’s creative spirit. Though it no longer features a ‘Festival of Sydney open golf tournament’ (one of the highlights of the second Festival in 1978 according to the Australian Women’s Weekly), this year’s Festival nonetheless features a daunting 179 events across 25 venues, both indoors and outdoors, making all the more difficult to decide what to see.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts