2023 OLD FITZ LINEUP
1 - 12 AUGUST
After a critically-acclaimed sell out season in 2022, THEY TOOK ME TO A QUEER BAR returns for a limited season. Part play, part celebration and inspired by Sydney’s Queer lineage, Tommy Misa shares stories from the past and present and offers hope for a collective Queer future.
19 -23 APRIL
What are the points of connection that are unique for the queer community?
Built from a tapestry of intersecting stories of the queer disabled experience, New Balance celebrates the intimacy and surprising universality of the experience growing up on the outside. In doing so, Bryant and Palackic interrogate and constellate the moments that formed and hurt us in equal measure.
9 MARCH - 1 APRIL
COLLAPSIBLE is a funny and furious new work about navigating a world that cares so much about you keeping it together, it doesn't notice you falling apart.
This coming-of-age comedy-drama explores identity, anxiety and what it means to be ‘real’. Coated in comedy and complete with Buzzfeed quizzes, COLLAPSIBLE is a contemporary nosedive into the phenomenon of disassociation. It’s a work for anyone who has ever tried to write a truthful cover letter.
3 JUNE — 1 JULY
Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. A steamy and shocking landmark drama, often hailed as one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century.
11 - 16 APRIL
Two new works by choreographers Jenni Large and Chloe Leong.
20 - 21 FEBRUARY
She is the enigma of Kings Cross, now Ayesha will reveal all!
For just 2 nights only, King's Cross local and Les Girls Legend Ayesha (and her two dogs) take to the Old Fitz Stage for an intimate retrospective on her extraordinary life. Hosted by another Legend, award winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist Louis Nowra.
5 SEPTEMBER - 21 OCTOBER
Fifteen years after collaborating on The Rocky Horror Show, internationally acclaimed powerhouse director Gale Edwards finally reunites with legendary performers Paul Capsis and iOTA for an unhinged and searing reimagining of Ionesco’s absurdist masterpiece, THE CHAIRS.