Delivered in partnership with the Sydney Fringe Festival in 2025, Parramatta’s Lit, a festival within a festival, is an exciting program celebrating the writers, poets, zinemakers, playwrights, publishers, bookclubs, booksellers and literary organisations of Parramatta.

What's On

1 - 12 September 2025 Parramatta's Lit & Riverside Theatres Presents

Orko

Presented by Nautanki Theatre, “Orko” is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello by Saurabh Bhattacharya.

Tuesday 2 September 2025 Parramatta's Lit & Riverside Theatres Presents

Write Here, Write Now

A high-energy playwriting experience where playwrights write in different venues across Parramatta, generating scenes, sketches and short plays in a few hours.

Wednesday 3 September 2025 Parramatta's Lit & Riverside Theatres Presents

Mixed Lolly Bag

Mixed Lolly Bag is a pick-n-mix selection of the amazing talent at Outloud, with a lineup of young and emerging writers sharing poetry, songs, and short stories.

Thursday 18 September 2025 Parramatta's Lit & Riverside Theatres Presents

The Leftovers

Jules is grieving. After a mental breakdown, she flees to Byron Bay to start a garden.

Friday 19 September 2025 Parramatta's Lit & Riverside Theatres Presents

Peacock

Two sisters will have to learn to face the lies they tell to others, and the lies they tell to themselves – as their worlds unravel around them.

Saturday 20 September 2025 Parramatta's Lit & Riverside Theatres Presents

The Good Woman

In Blacktown, Maryam Zahid dared to organise a women-only night.

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    Riverside Theatres acknowledges the Dharug people who are the traditional custodians of the land of Parramatta. We pay our respects to the elders past and present of the Dharug nation and extends that respect to other Aboriginal people visiting this site.