Isolated at home waiting for your billy to boil? MSO invites choral singers to perform Banjo Paterson’s famous bush-ballad for a special ANZAC Day commemorative video.

While the support has been welcomed, many fear it falls far short of what is needed for the industry to survive the COVID-19 crisis.

Small to medium companies who missed out in the Australia Council for the Arts’ latest Four Year Funding for Organisations round take stock in the midst of a crisis.

The Australian director, whose distinguished career crossed television, film, theatre, opera and ballet, has died at the age of 89.

The Golden Globe winner will perform in a world-wide live streamed reading of Lyle Kessler's play Orphans, presented by Sydney's Red Line Productions.

John Bell, Mitchell Butel and Julia Zemiro are among the artists speaking out on social media to ask the Government to #CreateAustraliasFuture

Opera Australia's Il Viaggio a Reims, the musical Come From Away, and the musical play Barbara and the Camp Dogs were among the winners.

The new streaming initiative has already presented nine concerts in its first fortnight, with plenty more to come.

The composer, who is the second ever winner of the $5000 biennial award, will have her work performed by the Australia Ensemble.

While new funding has been allocated for some, all companies will face cuts of 30 percent over the next 12 months.

“We're fighting for our survival,” says Richard Tognetti, as the shut-down of live performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic forces ACO musicians to broadcast content from in-home studios.

The Bell Shakespeare Shorts Festival is open to Australian primary and secondary students.