Sydney Festival 2017 Program Announced

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Sydney Festival 2017 is comprised of 150 events, 73 of which are free. 454 performances will take place across 46 venues, featuring 1021 artists from 15 countries. With 16 world premieres, 9 Australian premieres and 14 Australian exclusives, summer in Sydney is not to be missed.

Direct from Broadway, the Australian premiere of is an award-winning and technologically ground-breaking work from UK Company, directed by .

From internationally renowned UK company, and , directs Shakespeare's in Russian.

Winner of the Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, is new musical directed by Simon Philips featuring original music from (Crowded House).

Music headliners include and . Other highlights include a special Sydney Opera House concert to mark the 50th anniversary of Australia's 1967 Indigenous rights referendum.

is a series of events and exhibitions celebrating Sydney's Indigenous heritage and reawakening local language.

Hyde Park's much loved festival hub is doubling its free offering and features a variety of circus, comedy, contemporary music and cabaret acts, headlined by male burlesque/cabaret outfit,

In Sydney's famous outdoor venue The Domain, crowd favourites and return.

Coming to Sydney Festival as an Australian exclusive, is a joyous monochromatic installation of 1.1 million recyclable white balls by US design studio .

Artist co-curates the first major exhibition of '  artworks, painted during his incarceration at Bali's Kerobokan jail. responds to powerful artworks spanning two centuries from exhibition
A spotlight on Canadian artists includes  from ; 's ; from ; and from .

Contact:

Jessica Keirle
Publicity Manager
+61-2-8248-6525 / +61-438-805-109
jessica.keirle@sydneyfestival.org.au