In 50-up: The Rewind, a circus cabaret set on the studio floor of Countdown, every performer is over 50. Co-founders Mary Wyer and Hazel Palmer talk ageism, aerials and the not-for-profit they built to give older Australians a way in. At Fool's Paradise, Entertainment Quarter, for Sydney Fringe, 19-20 September.

In The Last Single Girl in Sydney, writer-performer Nikita Waldron plays Poppy, a florist who insists she's fine, she's having fun, and love can't hurt her again. Directed by Maddie Diggins and produced by Peg on a Line Productions, the one-woman show runs 8–12 September at Erskineville Town Hall's Emerging Artist Share House as part of Sydney Fringe 2026.