This week Deborah Jones settles down with a glass of wine to enjoy Finnish National Ballet's A Midsummer Night's Dream, San Francisco Ballet's Romeo & Juliet, and the Mariinsky's Sleeping Beauty.

The Audience Outlook Monitor predicts 78% will attend as often as they did pre-COVID-19, but only 22% will return as soon as restrictions are lifted. Smaller venues are most likely to attract audiences in the near future.

Simone Young, tenor Paul Tabone, and Royal Ballet stars Leanne Benjamin and Steven McRae are among the Australians appearing in live streamed performances to support the Tait Emergency Relief Fund.

The Australia Council for the Arts has announced $5.2 million in project grants to artists, groups and small to medium arts organisations, as well as a further $1.8 million in grants through its Resilience Fund.

Arts Centre Melbourne CEO Claire Spencer discusses the support the Arts Wellbeing Collective is giving performing arts workers during the coronavirus crisis, and the path to reopening theatres.

This week Deborah Jones explores ADT's digital program ADAPT, the documentary about the making of the RNZB's The Piano – the ballet, and Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale.

This week, for your digital viewing, Deborah Jones recommends New York City Ballet's Concerto DSCH by Alexei Ratmansky, and Liam Scarlett's Swan Lake.

The converted railway works is Australia’s largest multi-arts centre and COVID-19's biggest arts scalp to date.

Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa's Fully Sikh took home three awards in this year's ceremony, presented by presented by Artist Relief Fund WA.

Though this year’s Festival won’t go ahead, Shun Wah will helm an online program of events exploring Australia’s relationship to Asia through the arts.

Deborah Jones explores Alexei Ratmansky's Cinderella created for The Australian Ballet, and also recommends Bangarra's Bennelong among streaming options.

We will use the support to run a new series of weekly columns highlighting some of the gems among the plethora of arts material now available online.