The FRINGE WORLD 2025 Program is here and ready to WOW

The FRINGE WORLD Festival 2025 Program Is Here & Ready To WOW! 

Perth’s iconic FRINGE WORLD Festival returns from January 17 to February 16, 2025, ready to blow audiences away! This summer eager punters will be swept up in a dazzling celebration of everything spectacular, fantastical, and unforgettably Fringe.

The sensational 2025 Festival Program has dropped online and is packed with thrilling new acts, fan favourites, and an array of unexpected, exhilarating experiences. Starting today, Fringe Friends get First Dibs exclusive early access, with public ticket sales landing on Thursday, November 21, 2024.

“FRINGE WORLD Festival is all about igniting Perth with creativity and joy,” says Jo Thomas, ARTRAGE CEO. “This year’s program is packed with an incredible variety—from comedy and circus to theatre and cabaret—promising unforgettable experiences for all. We can’t wait to share it with Perth and watch audiences come alive with FRINGE energy!”

Fringe pink will splash across Perth, lighting up stages in 18 Perth Metro councils, stretching from the City of Joondalup to the City of Rockingham and the City of Kalamunda. The City of Perth remains the Fringe epicentre, hosting the largest number of venues and performances in the Festival line-up.

In the city, everyone’s favourite summer playground, The Pleasure Garden, is back with a huge schedule of showstoppers alongside flagship venues, including The Rechabite, State Theatre Centre, The Ellington Jazz Club, The Laugh Resort, His Majesty’s Theatre, and Ice Cream Factory. The suburbs will come alive, with jam-packed programmes on offer at Fremantle Comedy Club, Lyric’s Underground in Maylands, Subiaco Arts Centre and venues across Rockingham.

With over 500 shows on sale, Fringe-goers will be spoilt for choice with incredible acts across comedy, music, circus, dance, theatre, cabaret, and community events. This year’s program includes more than 190 world premieres, 30+ Australian premieres, 80+ State premieres, and over 300 new performances gracing the FRINGE WORLD stage.

Dazzle in awe as Gravity & Other Myths revive their critically acclaimed masterpiece A Simple Space, enjoy a raucous giggle with Thomas Jaspers’ Fountain Lakes in Lockdown: A Drag Parody Play, delight in the anticipated return of David Eriksson with the highly anticipated new show Apple Saucy, revel in the return of Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett, and celebrate new wonderment with Briefs: Jealousss.

Get a belly full of laughs with Thank God You’re Here alum, Luke McGregor’s new show OK, Wow, dive into the hype with international sell-out sensations like Garry Starr: Classic Penguins, and groove with the 3x GRAMMY-winning Soweto Gospel Choir – HOPE.

Elevate your summer with Adelaide Fringe Tour Ready Award Winner, Lewis Major: Triptych, rediscover friendship at Barking Gecko Theatre’s The Quadrangle, get dramatic at FAG/STAG by WA theatre makers, The Last Great Hunt, and explore a cosmic cabaret saloon in Ashton Legacy Productions’ world premiere big-top experience, LASSU.

“Fringe is something that I look forward to every year – it never fails to delight and entertain,” said the Western Australian Culture and Arts Minister David Templeman.“The best bit about Fringe is seeing the city and some of our outer metropolitan areas activated and alive, it is part of what makes summer so special.”

It's set to be a big summer of WOW at FRINGE WORLD Festival 2025, so get ahead of the pack by snagging a Fringe Friends Membership, treating your pals (or yourself) to a FRINGE WORLD Gift Voucher or jumping online and start planning your Fringe Binge today.

FRINGE WORLD would like to thank its Partners for their ongoing support in showcasing the arts in Perth, with special thanks to Principal Supporter Lotterywest and key supporters City of Perth and the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.

View the full FRINGE WORLD 2025 program via the What's On page.