[1] Premiering many of their works at the Performance Space, Sydney, they toured the UK, Europe and Hong Kong.
[4][5] The core of the group were performers John Baylis, Andrea Eloise, Clare Grant, Nigel Kellaway, and Chris Ryan.
[6] The group combined elements of performance art and experimental theatre in their work.
[7] Along with the work of the Wooster Group and Forced Entertainment,[8] The Sydney Front were cited as Anglophonic examples of postdramatic theatre in the English edition of Hans-Thies Lehmann's Postdramatic Theatre, 2006.
[9] In 1999 John McCallum, theatre critic in The Australian, wrote "The Sydney Front is still Australia's most influential contemporary performance company, although they disbanded in 1993".