Overview
If your pockets are feeling a little lighter after Christmas shopping and many end-of-year celebrations, you're in luck. Sydney Festival has today announced it's offering $31 tickets to 34 of its shows — so you don't need to forgo your culture and art fix come January.
And you don't need to lineup for these cheap tickets, either. Sydney Festival has teamed up with TodayTix, an app aiming to make theatre affordable for all, for its 2020 Tix For Next to Nix program, which lets you snag two $26 tickets (plus $5 booking fee per ticket) to a same-day performance.
A limited number of cheap tickets are available from 9am–midday (or until sold out) on the morning of the show via the TodayTix app. This means, you can snag the cheap tix on your phone — from the comfort of your bed.
The cheap tickets will be available every day throughout the festival — which runs from January 8–26 — for cabaret shows, circus, live music and theatre. Highlights from the Tix For Next to Nix program include Joan Didion's The White Album, which sees the author's 79 essays brought to life on the stage; a comedy by First Nations theatre companies Ilbijerri and Te Rēhia called Black Ties; a 30-year revival of Aboriginal stage musical Bran Nue Dae; a futuristic performance by avant-garde musician Holly Herndon; and family-oriented circus piece Air Play.
Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined
Discounted shows also include a reboot of seminal 70s Aussie cabaret Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined and supernatural theatre Night Parade of One Hundred Goblins, which leads you through the AGNSW's new Japan Supernatural exhibition.
The catch is that to 'unlock' the Tix For Next to Nix tickets, you'll need to share a post about TodayTix on your social media. But, with some of these tickets going for upwards of $100, it's a share we're more than willing to make. Set your alarm.
TodayTix is offering $26 tickets (plus $5 booking fee each) to Sydney Festival shows every day from 9am January 8–26. You can download the app for iOS and Android. To find out more about Tix For Next to Nix, head to the Sydney Festival website.
Image: Air Play by Florence Montmare.