Online Arts Guide
May 5, 2020Watch all of your favourite ‘ARTS & CULTURE’ programs on ABC iview. All the best programs from ABC TV on all your devices and all available to watch for free.
On Arts iview from Friday May 1, you can stream productions by Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company. Highlights include Bangarra’s breakthrough production Ochres (originally staged in 1995), STC’s dreamlike production of Michael Gow’s Away, and all of the Handa Operas on Sydney Harbour. Seven productions go online May 1, four more on May 8 and another four on May 15, and the roll-out will continue through to the first week of June.
The Australian Ballet perform Romeo and Juliet
From May 1-15, you can stream this production of Prokofiev’s ballet, choreographed by Graeme Murphy.
This week is your last chance to catch master choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s Cinderella, set to Prokofiev’s score and created specially for The Australian Ballet.
Fran Lebowitz in Conversation
Resurfaced as part of Sydney Opera House’s weekly digital program, this talk from the 2018 All About Women festival features the legendary writer, cultural commentator and New Yorker in conversation about her life, her home city, cultural nostalgia, and the world at large. Sharp is the word.
STC Virtual
This series by Sydney Theatre Company features bite-sized videos made by their artists and former collaborators during lockdown.
Watch Tim Minchin performing a monologue from Hamlet in his living room; Kate Mulvany reading from the opening chapter of Ruth Park’s Harp in the South; and Shari Sebbens performing monologues from seminal Indigenous Australian plays The Seven Stages of Grieving and Stolen.