Sydney Festival 2010
If you like the weather hot, your options for exceptional theatre, dance, music and film diverse, and the chance to see superstar artists like Al Green, Neko Case and AR Rahman (for nix) then you should know exactly what’s coming around the corner.

Sydney Festival 2010 tickets go on sale today, with a bursting-at-the-seams program led by new Festival Director Lindy Hume.

Note 9 January in the diary now – when you and 250,000+ revellers fill our city’s streets, lanes and parks for Festival First Night.  Expect a theatrical air, and not just on the stages where the likes of ‘the Reverend’ Al Green, The Black Arm Band, Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro and The Manganiyar Seduction will be dazzling. Look to the balconies along Macquarie Street, for performers swinging from trapeze and floating in from the sky.

Dance and Theatre performances are too many to mention, but you might like to start with Happy As Larry, German Director Thomas Ostermeier’s radical retake on Hamlet and an Irish rendition of Giselle.

Outdoor Beck’s Festival Bar pops back up again with a we aim to please line up. For starters, there’s Grizzly Bear, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Severed Heads, View Farka Touré and Camera Obscura.    

In About An Hour (and for $30) you should catch Shaun Parker’s Happy As Larry dance theatre work, laugh at a comedy of politics with Party; and take a magical journey with Hugh Hughes in…360. 

Hard to believe but there’s more events to be announced.  Get planning with the full program here.

Sydney Festival 2010
9 – 30 January 2010
Tickets to Festival events available through ticketing agencies and online from Monday November 9 at 9am.
Image credit: Stephen Oxenbury