Sydney Fringe Festival Announces 2015 Program

3 August 2015 | 5:24 pm | Staff Writer

More than 300 shows will be on offer across 50 venues throughout this September

Sydney Fringe Festival has released its full program for their 2015 season, running 1 to 30 September. The festival boasts over 300 shows including theatre, music, visual arts, comedy and more across 50 venues in Sydney's inner west. 

The festival spotlights the city's vast arts sector, this year including for the first time a festival village in Erskineville, as well as an array of shop fronts, street activations and pop-up spaces. 

According to this year's director Kerri Glasscock, the 2015 festival is set to focus on different themes every week with the first being 'The Inner City', the second week 'The Festival Heart', the third week 'Family Events' and the closing week fittingly called 'The Last Days'. 

On 6 September, FRINGE IGNITE will be celebrating the beginning of the festival with live music from 3pm till 7pm all along Erskineville Road.

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"Sydney Fringe shines a light on independent work that happens all year around," Glasscock said in a statement. "It aims to pilot big ideas present a diversity of thought provoking content and uncover the constant evolution of the arts in Sydney. We are excited to partner with APRA and the Live Music Office for FRINGE IGINITE and kick the Festival off with an energy and dynamism that characterises what Sydney Fringe stands for.”

Some highlights of the festival include:

Anne Edmonds' show You Know What I'm Like: One of the most promising comedians coming out of Australia right now, Edmonds is coming back again after a critically acclaimed performance at MICF, and is set to impress at the Fringe Festival this year.

2015 Best Stand-up and Best Writing Award recipient at Fringe New Zealand Jonny Potts is coming to town with Loose: A Private History of Booze and Iggy Pop 1996-2015, a performance about drugs, cars and toasted panini. 

Wes Carr presents Here Comes The Sun, a tribute to some of George Harrison's greatest songs, performed alongside tales and anecdotes about Harrison himself.