Stage & Stream – Streaming Theatre & Cabaret May 1st

Stage And Stream Links – Fri 1st – Friday 8th May

Sunday 3rd May

• SUNDAY SONNETS
  A fortnightly reading of William Shakespeare’s timeless poetry, to be read by an incredible ensemble of actors, based in both Australia and overseas in a joint live feed. Directed by Sam Haft.
  11am AEST – Free
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/events/1344454095751292/
• MUSICAL MUGWUMPS
  Each week a new musical for artists to perform is announced. Artists volunteer to be part of the read/sing-through and on Sunday nights these brave performers go live for a non-rehearsed, full run through of the show! 
  7pm AEST – Free
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/MusicalMugwumps/
• AFTERNOON TEA WITH BOOFF
  Booff (Clint Bolster) is not your usual afternoon tea host. This clown with a twist is live every Sunday enjoying tea with artists, actors and performers from around Australia. Guests this week include circus star Mr Gorski, internationally recognised artist and journalist Bec Mac, and The X-Treme Brothers direct from Las Vegas!
  3:30-4:30pm AEST – Free, please donate.
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/clint.bolster
• AS YOU LIKE IT – STREAMED SHAKESPEARE
  The sixth (congrats!!) live-streamed, video conference staged reading of Shakespeare’s is As You Like It, directed by Jamie James Colette.  This collective of  Australian indy artists has been getting a reputation for thoroughly entertaining zooms, and the recent attention has been well-deserved.
  2pm AEST – Free, please donate. 
  FACEBOOK –  www.facebook.com/StreamedShakespeare/

Monday 4th May

• LIGHTS UP ON THE ARTS: HOME DELIVERY
  James Cutler and Joshua Robson Productions announce Lights Up On The Arts: Home Delivery! A concert created and designed to shine a light on our Arts industry and support performers whose livelihoods have been impacted by the COVID-19 arts shutdown. The team has express permission to use Stephen Schwartz’s catalogue and it’s an incredible line up of artists from around Australia!
  7pm AEST – Free, please donate
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/joshuarobsonproductions
• BRAVE NEW ROUGH & READY – BRAVE NEW WORD
  The first week of submissions to Sydney’s indy storytelling darlings, Brave New Word, were an eclectic and exciting round of shortform stories. There’s a new round every week and this week will centre around the theme ‘nostalgia’. Start every night with a quick story from great Australian thetare makers.
  6pm (Daily) AEST – Free
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/BraveNewWordTC/
• THE STORY CHUNDER WITH MATT YOUNG
  Matt’s weekly live event was performed at Brisbane’s BackDock Arts. Every week a new lot of storytellers spew forth their most entertaining stories for your delight or disapproval. Join host Matt Young (TBS’s WRECKED, original Australian cast of THE PRODUCERS) for the livestream then listen to his podcast on Spotify, iTunes, Twitch or where ever you listen to podcasts.
  7pm AEST – Free, please donate.
  INSTAGRAM – www.instagram.com/thestorychunder
• KIDS STORYTIME WITH HANNA CONDA
  Join Sydney Drag Queen, Hannah Conda, each Monday to listen to this weeks’ chosen childrens book.
  2.30pm AEST – Free
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/hannahconda13

Tuesday 5th May

• TAIKOZ
  Australia’s pre-eminent drum performance company has been sharing clips from their production Seven Flowers as a teaser before a future live stream of the full show. The clips are little pockets of wonderful – just the thing to kick off a Tuesday.
  On-Demand – Free, please donate
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/TAIKOZfan/
• CORONAVLOG
  From humble beginnings in Schiermonnikoog (an unpronounceable village in Holland), to being seen by over one million viewers in theatres, TV and online, Jan van de Stool, is no stranger to fame. But she has always ‘kept it real’ by presenting self-help workshops at her local Munudji Scout Hall in Woy Woy, where, over the years, she has helped, literally, tens of people. Using her psychological insight, musical therapy exercises and psychic powers, Jan unwraps the weekly #Coronavirus news, in an attempt to help tens more people around the world through this difficult period.
  On-Demand – A$1.98
  VIMEO – www.vimeo.com/ondemand/coronavlog
• HOME THEATRE ARTS
  This online collective record a zoom group performance every week and host a global weekly watch party every Tuesday.
  7pm AEST – Free
  http://tiny.cc/HomeTheatreArts

Wednesday 6th May

• THE GREAT ILLUSIONIST
  Discover the enchanting tale of a young boy who longs to be an illusionist, in this story within a story. A tale of daring and willpower, the importance of a good assistant and of course, a white rabbit! Captivate the whole family with live music, impressive illusions, magical puppetry and marvellous tricks.
  On-demand from 4pm
  www.sydneyoperahouse.com
• SLAY LIVE
  Sydney’s Universal Club – Each week witness some of Sydney’s fiercest drag talent compete to win what’s in the coveted SLAY BOX! Hosted by Carmen Geddit & Charisma Belle.
  9pm AEST – Free
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/events/1377796425756504/
• ART CENTRE MELBOURNE’S BIG NIGHT IN
  Arts Centre Melbourne, one of Australia’s most important artistic hubs for more than 35 years, has teamed up with John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra to present a weekly live digital show every Wednesday at 7pm. Special guests, great chat, top performers!
  7pm – Free – Please donate
  www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/

Thursday 7th May

• GOLD – HOPE NEW WORKS
  This new musical from Jess Newman and Richard Lindenfelzer is the latest development from  the Hope New Works initiative. GOLD is a coming of age adventure about dark obsessions, local legends, and what happens when we seek validation outside of ourselves. The contemporary pop/rock score is infused with country/western and Americana to show how the past and the present collide in everyday yet unsuspecting ways. Musical influences include bluegrass, Americana and contemporary pop/rock.
  7pm AEST – Free – Please donate
  www.hopenewworks.com
• THE RICHARD P DICK VAN JOHNSON SHOW
  Australian cabaret and performance artist Duckie L’Orange has been making wacky, interactive and terribly fun shows for over a decade, and she’s been seen everywhere from the Sydney Opera House to the Ufafabrik Germany. Now based in Berlin, Duckie is back as Richard P Dick Van Johnson in a live-streamed late night/early morning chat show featuring infamous special guests in music, comedy and weirdness, weekly.
  Thursdays 6am AEST / Wednesdays 10pm CET – Free
  YOUTUBE – www.youtube.com/duckielorange
• SURRY HILLS LIVE
  The City of Sydney chipped in to create and promote local live gigs in the suburb’s pubs through this program, and now these gigs are gone, they’ve moved them online. Evening shows will be streaming through March.
  7.30pm AEST Thursdays – Free
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/surryhills.live
• COUCH READINGS
  Thornhill Theatre Space are presenting live-streamed couch readings of Australian works on Thursdays. This week’s play is My Director by Emma Dawson, a ridiculously silly workplace dramedy, featuring a ruthless Personal Assistant, a mysterious Head of Technology, and an eccentric, aristocratic Director.
  8pm AEST – Free – available on demand after
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/ThornhillTheatreSpace

FRIDAY MAY 8TH

• GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES – RED LINE PRODUCTIONS
  Featuring Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Rose Byrne, AACTA and Helpmann Award winner Ewen Leslie and ARIA-award winning musician John Butler, Red Line is amping up the streaming theatre stakes yet again. This one-off, worldwide livestream will also support Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp), Support Act, Actors Benevolent Fund and Steppenwolf Theatre Company
  8:30pm (New York EDT) / Saturday 9th May 2020 at 10:30am (Sydney AEST) – Ticketed
  www.facebook.com/redlineproductionsoz/

AUS/NZ ON-DEMAND & REGULAR

• LITTLE LUNCH ONLINE – ARTS FRONT
  Little Lunch Online is a chance to check in and connect with each other while we grab a quick bite of lunch, or a morning coffee for folk in the West. It’s a quick 30 minute window to share ideas and resources, and plan our actions in responding to the pandemic, the climate crisis and whatever global emergency awaits us next. A perfect midday stopping point for artists and arts professionals.
  Daily, Midday AEST – Free
  www.artsfront.com/event/37103-little-lunch-online-llol
• CABARET ON THE COUCH
  Performer/Writer Nikki Aitkin is live streaming her podcast from Melbourne with a special guest every week. Tune in and find out what happens when the lashes come off.
  On-Demand – Free
  www.nikkiaitken.com/cabaret-on-the-couch.html
• FROM OUR HOUSE TO YOURS
  The Sydney Opera House’s new digital initiate launches new content daily from Wednesday to Sunday every week. From symphony performances to panel discussions with leading writers, and archival from incredible forecourt shows – it’s going to be just as varied as the house itself. Click over to see what’s on screen this week.
  On-Demand – free
  www.sydneyoperahouse.com/digital/season.html

EDUCATION / ACTIVITES

• Poetry In Action – this NFP touring company has brought their popular education program online to stream into homes and classrooms. There are 4 performances in line with curriculum for Years 5-12. Visit www.poetryinaction.com.au for more info.
• Storyville Live – Storyville’s in-school program sends performers to read much-loved storybooks to children. For the next couple of weeks they’ll be trialling live storytime via Facebook, and it’s well worth it for those with little ones at home. 11am and 3pm AEST daily – free www.facebook.com/theStoryville/
• Slingsby by Request – South Australian theatre company Slingsby has created an online resource of live performances in line with curriculum. The first work is Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner, adapted for the stage by Nicki Bloom. Teachers and home-teachers should check out this great new resource.  www.slingsby.net.au/slingsby-by-request/
• Audioplay – This is unlike any other activity out there at the moment. An immersive play experience for kids (ages 6-12) where they download an audio story in which they play one of the characters using ordinary household items for props. Creative play just got so much better! www.audioplay.me
• Stage Door
  Is an online theatre and performance training program by Q Theatre. This series includes a variety of workshops for creative people of all ages, skills levels and needs. Participants attend a weekly workshop across an 8-week term to learn new skills and work towards a new performance outcome. Each workshop will run via Zoom and Google Classrooms and will allow you to start out, step up, ignite, accelerate or access and build on new performance skills, keeping you connected and collaborating in these unusual times.
• Shake & Stir Interact
  Since 2006, shake & stir drama classes have been a regular extra-curricular activity adored by tens of thousands of students, and now their latest program has moved online. Each week, your child will engage with a carefully-planned, professionally-produced and, most importantly, super-fun 30 minutes of creative play, at home. We’re talking drama activities and performance-based games that will get them acting and keep them active. www.shakeandstirinteract.com.au
• ATYP Online
  Australian Theatre for Young People have brought made their drama programs virtual just in time for term 2. A selection of their regular programs will be facilitated live each week via Zoom and Google Classroom. Participants will work with a skilled ATYP tutor and classmates in an interactive online space from the safety of their homes. It’s just one of several programs teachers and home teachers should discover. www.atyp.com.au
• Patch Theatre
  Patch Theatre has been making shows for 4–8 year old children and their families from our home in South Australia since 1972. In our nearly 48 years, Patch has made 110 much loved theatre works and performed to over 1.8 million children around the world. They’re posting regular updates to arts activities for little ones online, and via Facebook and Instagram. www.patchtheatre.org.au/activities
• Polyglot Theatre
  Children’s theatre makers Polyglot have developed a series of new arts activities that will keep young ones busy and thinking during creative play. There’s heaps of fun stuff to explore and if you don’t have kids we highly recommend doing them anyway because a) they’re fun and b) home-grown hilarity is needed right now. www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-at-home/
• Riverside Theatres
  Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres has always had a fantastic education team and resources to match – and now a directory of teacher resources from past performances is available on their website. There’s also a super-handy (and HUGE) listing of other online resources that teachers and parents should not miss. www.riversideparramatta.com.au

INTERNATIONAL

• BERLINER FESTSPIEL
  Get set for a weekend of theatre pleasure – six productions shown as recordings-on-demand for 24 hours each.  They might start at 4am AEST but since you have some time to watch, you can enjoy when you like (for a limited time) English closed captions available.
  On-Demand, Limited Time – Free
  www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/berliner-festspiele/programm/on-demand/tt-virtuell-auswahl.html
• GIFT – GATESHEAD INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THEATRE
  Three days of contemporary theatre and performance delivered online. A carefully curated festival that aims to connect audiences and artists from across the globe in real-time theatrical encounters, one-on-one experiences, workshops & panel discussions.
  April 30th – May 3rd – On-demand
  www.giftfestival.co.uk
• CRONGTON KNIGHTS – PILOT THEATRE
  This critically-acclaimed production, created in collaboration with Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Derby Theatre and York Theatre Royal, will be streamed online for free until May 9th. Based on the novel by Alex Wheatle and adapted by Emteaz Husain, the production mixes music, beatboxing and storytelling, to tell the stroy of six young people who head out on a crusade across a housing estate.
  On-Demand – Free
  YOUTUBE – www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2DIlzz73w
• TWISTED – THE UNTOLD STORY OF A ROYAL VIZIER
  From the creators of ‘A Very Potter Musical’ and ‘Holy Musical B@man!’, comes ‘Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier.’ Hop on your flying carpet, because this musical parody retells the classic tale of Aladdin… from the villain’s point of view! Closed captions available.
  On-Demand – Free
  YOUTUBE – www.youtube.com/watch?v=-77cUxba-aA
• THE PRESENT – GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
  The first work to be produced from Geffen’s Stayhouse initiative – a live, virtual, interactive theatrical experience. The Present, written and performed by magician Helder Guimarães and directed by Oscar nominee Frank Marshall.
  Previews May 7-13, Opening Night May 14
  www.geffenplayhouse.org/stayhouse/
  
• ALAN CUMMING – LEGAL IMMIGRANT
  Alan Cumming is many things to many people – renaissance man, style icon, social activist, bon viveur – but to himself he is a story-teller and provocateur for hire. His bawdy, bold and thoroughly fun cabaret filmed at Joe’s Pub can be streamed free for a limited time thanks to New York’s Public Theater.
  On-Demand – Free, please donate
  YOUTUBE – www.youtu.be/msyQQc1OtS8
• INSTITUTE – GECKO 
  Institute is a visually captivating, emotionally driven performance, which openly invites its audience to consider what it means to care. This international hit scored 5 star reviews everywhere it toured and this is your chance to catch it. Physical theatre at it’s finest.
  On-Demand – Free, please donate
  YOUTUBE – www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYR9XmYR2s&feature=youtu.be
• FRANKENSTEIN – NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
  Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternate the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation.
  On-Demand until May 8th – Free
  YOUTUBE – www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDq1XzCY0NIOYVJvEMQjqw
• EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE – YORK THEATRE ROYAL
  This epic 2017 production was a community collaboration that invited 150 performers and a choir of 80 to produce a suffragette story that is just what we need right now – inspirational and delightfully affirming.
  On-Demand from 7th – 31st May (UK) – Free, please donate
  YOUTUBE – www.youtu.be/yT34ZmtAqak
• RAGE – B.DANCE
  Taiwan’s B.Dance Company’s Rage was inspired by the eponymous crime novel by the Japanese writer Yoshida Shuichi. This is a powerful all-dance presentation from choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai.
  3rd May – 10pm (CST/GMT+8)
  FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/B.DANCE.com.tw/
• THE MIDNIGHT GANG – CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE
  David Walliams’s The Midnight Gang, adapted by Bryony Lavery with music and lyrics by Joe Stilgoe, premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2018, directed by Dale Rooks. This inventive tale of fun, friendship and the importance of kindness, about a gang of children who each night escape from their hospital beds to make their dreams come true, is adapted from David Walliams’s biggest-selling children’s book of 2016.
  On-Demand from 30th April – Free, please donate
  www.cft.org.uk
• LOVE’S LABOURS LOST – DEAFINITELY THEATRE
  Deafinitely Theatre’s production of  Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost performed in British Sign Language at The Globe Theatre.
  On-Demand – Free, please donate
  YOUTUBE – www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfpDiwcCJo
• WASTED – SOUTHWARD PLAYHOUSE
  Through the lens of a rock documentary, Wasted gives an access-all-areas account of the struggles, heartbreaks and triumphs of the three Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and their brother Branwell. Brought up in a remote, poverty-stricken town in Yorkshire, without money or opportunity, they fought ill-health, unrequited love and family feuds to write some of the most celebrated literature including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
  On-Demand – Free, please donate
  www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
• QUARANSTREAM – NORMAL AVE
  New York’s Normal Ave are paying two playwrights every week a micro commission to write a 10-minute play to be performed and directed by professional artists. Works go live 8pm EST but can be watched on-demand after via Facebook. Now into week 3, there’s already lots to explore here!
  On-Demand – Free, please donate
  www.normalave.org/quaranstream
• THEATRE IS THE CURE
  A pay-what-you-can theatre event, with all proceeds distributed to the artists. 15 Playwrights write one original monologue each. 15 Directors are matched with a script and one of 15 Actors to rehearse via video, culminating in a live-streaming event.
  Every Friday (USA) at 6.30pm PDT and Saturday 12.30pm Sydney – Free
  FACEBOOK LIVE – www.facebook.com/events/1417131878461230

ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES

• GRANT WRITING WORKSHOPS – AUSPICIOUS ARTS
  Auspicious Arts is hosting two workshops on-demand that can help artists prepare grant applications from Moonee Valley Council and the City of Yarra – it’s a great time to sharpen our skills in this department if you have the headspace. www.auspicious.com.au/noticeboard/
• ANTIPODES THEATRE COMPANY
  Antipodes Theatre Company is excited to introduce their first ever WINTER DEVELOPMENT RETREAT for new work and bold ideas! Each project that is chosen will receive a minimum stipend of $250 and additional virtual support. All work and genres considered. This retreat will provide support to writers, directors, and actors through virtual workshops, readings, mentoring and more from 17-28 June, 2020. Anyone interested should visit antipodestheatre.com/retreat for more info and fill out an Expression of Interest Form by 8 May, 2020.
• BROWN’S MART BUILD UP 
  BUILD UP is Brown’s Mart’s seeding and development program. Projects can be for research or creative development of new projects by Independent Theatre artists working and living in the top end of the NT. These projects are for any stage of development and are designed to support a fertile environment for the creation of new
  NT theatre. For 2020, and in response to the COVID 19 pandemic, Brown’s Mart will offer 3 new BUILD UP opportunities. 2 more rounds, with applications closing on the 18th May and 15th June. Full details at www.brownsmart.com.au
• NAVA ADVOCACY PROGRAM
  The National Association for the Visual Arts is running free weekly workshops designed to foster better skills for arts advocacy for both artists and arts workers. The first workshops was on April 22nd, but there are many more to enjoy – let’s build resilience and skills together! Details at www.visualarts.net.au/nava-advocacy-program-weekly-workshops-registration/
• CIRCUS ARTS HUB
  Circus Arts Hub are bringing their best and brightest online for a series of panel discussions for Circus arts performers. See the full line up and register at www.thecircusartshub.com/events
• ADELAIDE FRINGEVIEW
  The Adelaide Fringe team have been working hard to find a way to directly support artists during the crisis, and applications are now open for the pilot of an online, digital Fringe experience. Artists are invited to register a video as a Fringe event. In the spirit of Fringe they’re open to all genres. It is free to register as an artist and take part in the pilot, with Fringe waiving all registration and artist ticketing fees to make it available to everyone. And this will eventually be a ticketed event! Get all the details here.
• BRAVE NEW ROUGH & READY
  Sydney indy favourites Brave New Word Theatre Co are inviting artists to take part in a new project. Brave New Rough & Ready is an open access, weekly invitation to tell a story from your own home and have it featured on their networks. There are very finite guidelines that make participation easy, and a weekly theme to inspire you. Seven performances will be showcased weekly. Get all the details on their Facebook page.
• MOOGAHL LIVE
  Indigenous arts maker Moogahlin Performing Arts are calling out for performing artists for a series of Facebook takeovers. These could be anything from solo concerts, dance workshops, comedy sets, acting masterclasses, spoken word performances, and more. Deadly artists, step on up. www.moogahlin.org/moogahl-live
  Catch previous episodes of Mooghal Live on their facebook page here.
• THORNHILL COUCH READINGS
  Ryan Thornhill’s new streaming project is seeking actors and writers for their ongoing streaming project. Check out their Facebook page or email thornhilltheatrespace@outlook.com to get involved.

• MAY 9 – TEN WAYS TO SURVIVE LIFE IN QUARANTINE – PERTH AT HOME THEATRE CO
  10 Ways to Survive Life in a Quarantine is full of handy solutions, from putting on a musical with your dog, to becoming an announcer for a made-up sport, to falling in love with an inanimate object. Hey, we promised handy solutions – we never said they wouldn’t be strange. Whether or not you’re inspired to take up origami and squirrel observation, this flexible new play written by Don Zolidis especially for actors to perform online is sure to bring a laugh to anyone who finds themselves unexpectedly indoors. Closed Captions available.

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