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Backstage

Regina Botros talks with the best theatre makers of our times about their life on and off the stage. Theatre, Dance, Comedy and Performing Arts. Theme music by Dave Wray Image by Tuo

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18:18

Keegan Joyce - No Love Songs

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2025/03/05

Keegan Joyce joins Regina Botros to talk No Love Songs using songs from the real life Scottish musician Kyle Falconer from his band The View.You might have seen Keegan in Rake and Please Like Me. He was also the longest serving 'Oliver' in the history of the production "Oliver!" where Keegan from the age of 12, toured Singapore, Sydney, and Melbourne for over a year. He's done heaps! NO LOVE SONGS is a powerful and uplifting modern love story that packs an emotional punch with beautifully written

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28:32

Tom Wright and Picnic at Hanging Rock

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2025/02/28

Tom Wright joins Regina Botros to talk about his adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock at Sydney Theatre Company.Wright's adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock for the Sydney Theatre Company has received rave reviews. It's an eerie, beautiful, and visionary take on Joan Lindsay's gothic tale. The production, directed by Ian Michael, features a talented cast and combines modern elements with the haunting mystery of the original story. Tom Wright started as a member of Barrie Kosky’s Gilgul Theatre

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21:10

Alana Valentine and her new work Nucleus

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2025/02/20

Alana joins Regina Botros to talk about her new work for the stage Nucleus at the Seymour Centre as part of the Griffin season.Alana Valentine is a librettist, playwright and director. Photo (c) Brett Boardman Gabriel is a nuclear engineer. Cassie is an anti-nuclear campaigner. For nearly thirty years their lives have collided and entwined, with Cassie’s cause dominating public opinion across the decades. But with political change rumbling underfoot, Cassie’s life’s work could yet be undone—and

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20:10

Shiv Palekar in 4000 Miles

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2025/02/17

Shiv joins Regina Botros to talk about how he came to acting and his role in 4000 Miles for STC. Shiv Palekar was born in India, raised in Hong Kong and is now based in Sydney, Australia. Since graduating from NIDA, Shiv has appeared in Counting and Cracking (Belvoir); The Tempest, The Real Thing, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and Disgraced (Sydney Theatre Company); The Sound Inside (Melbourne Theatre Company); The Almighty Sometimes (Griffin Theatre Company); and has toured nationally twice in The

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12:16

Patrick Kennedy

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2025/02/11

Director & Designer Patrick Kennedy joins Regina Botros to talk about THE FLEA at the New Theatre.Hailed as "one of the country’s most fascinating theatre practitioners" (British Theatre), Patrick Kennedy is an Offie Award nominated director and producer recognized as one of the leading European avant garde figures. Originally trained as an acting teacher under the Globe Theatre’s Jacqueline Bessel, Patrick began producing and creating experimental theatre in 2009 at Edinburgh Fringe

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15:52

Brendan Cowell

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2025/01/20

Brendan joins Regina Botros to talk about his latest work Hamlet Camp on at the Carriageworks till the 25th January.A laugh out loud look at acting and the roles that haunt you! Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie, and Toby Schmitz – three stars of Australian stage and screen – come together for the first time for the world premiere of Hamlet Camp, a night of poetry, pith and play. Photo credit: Daniel Boud

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20:05

Priscilla Jackman and The Cost of Living (back...

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2024/12/05

Priscilla Jackman joins Regina Botros to discuss The Cost of Living for Sydney Theatre Company.First broadcast 24th July, 2024. Sydney Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre’s co-production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony-nominated Broadway smash-hit, Cost of Living. Priscilla Jackman (RBG: Of Many, One) and internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Dan Daw (The Dan Daw Show) direct this Australian premiere production of one of the best pieces of new writing to emerge from the US in

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03:10

Silia Kapsis and Eurovision on tour Sydney 2024

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2024/12/04

Backstage at the Enmore Theatre with Regina and Benito, the youngest 2024 Eurovision entrant at 17 years old, Sydney's Silia Kapsis. The biggest live music show on earth is touring for the first time since the Eurovision Song Contest began in 1956, presented by Eurodrama Entertainment, SL. Following concerts in London, Paris and Madrid, EUROVISION ON TOUR brings the Eurovision experience to the fans and will tour to three Australian cities: Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney on 13, 15 and 17

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03:31

Senhit at Eurovision on tour Sydney 2024

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2024/12/04

Senhit talks to Regina and Benito backstage at the Enmore theatre. Known globally as the 'Freaky Queen', Italian-African pop star Senhit’s single ‘Adrenalina’ saw her collaborate with American rapper Flo Rida, who famously performed on stage with her at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. ‘Adrenalina’ has had 18 million streams on Spotify, with a further 3 million Spotify streams of a remix by one of the world's biggest DJs Steve Aoki. Her new album 'Dangerous' has just been released ahead of

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17:08

Matt Day

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2024/11/13

Matt Day joins Regina Botros backstage to talk through the life and times of his character John Reed in Sunday on at Sydney Theatre Company until the 7th December.An Australian work by Anthony Weigh - based on the life and times of Sunday and John Reed and the Heide Circle – the renowned group of friends, lovers, and rivals that ruled Australia’s visual art scene in the 30s, 40s and 50s. It is also the story of the fiery love triangle between the irrepressible Sunday

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15:55

Dean Bryant

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2024/11/05

Backstage with Dean Bryant and Dear Evan Hansen at Sydney Theatre Company. Dean Bryant is an award-winning Melbourne-based director and writer who moves between plays, musicals, opera, cabaret and, most recently, screen. A Little Night Music received the 2024 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Musical and Best Director of a Musical, and Hubris received the award for Best New Australian Work. This follows his reception of the 2022 Sydney Theatre Award and 2023 Green Room Award for his direction of the

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22:50

Kate Britton Liveworks Festival

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2024/10/23

Kate joins Regina Botros to talk about the Liveworks festival highlights and spotlights.Kate Britton is the Aritsitc Producer of the Performance Space, a producer, curator and arts manager with more than 10 years experience in festivals, performance, visual art and public programs, with a focus on cross-disciplinary and queer practices.

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24:19

Di Smith & Katrina Foster

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2024/10/15

Di Smith & Katrina Foster join Regina Botros to talk about Seventeen on at the Seymour Centre. Joyful and profound, Matthew Whittet’s Seventeen tells the story of a group of high school students, experiencing something we all remember well, the last day of school – for ever. Through a fog of stolen alcohol, six teenagers gather in a playground late at night to share the moment in their lives when the past gives way to an uncertain future, and where secrets are spilled, and friendships are

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20:11

Jack Symonds

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2024/10/08

Jack Symonds joins Regina Botros to talk about the production Gilgamesh at the Carriageworks. Jack Symonds is a composer, conductor and pianist, and Artistic Director of Sydney Chamber Opera. He studied composition at the Royal College of Music, London under Kenneth Hesketh and at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he received the University Medal. His stage works represent “a striking and impressive new operatic voice” (Sydney Morning Herald) and he is “one of those performers who seemingly

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15:30

Merlynn Tong with Golden Blood

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2024/09/24

Merlynn Tong joins Regina to talk about Golden Blood.Writer and performer in golden blood - first staged at griffin in 2022 Back to stc from 17th sept at wharf 1 Theatre for STC Originally from Singapore Merlynn is known for her screen roles in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake and ABC’s In Our Blood. Her previous works for the stage, in which she also starred, include her one-woman shows, Ma Ma Ma Mad, the true story of her mother’s suicide, and Blue Bones, a semi—----autobiography of teenage

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18:24

Lucinda Gleeson

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2024/08/08

The gorgeous Lucinda Gleeson joins Regina to talk about the show The Arrogance on at KXT Broadway.Lucinda Gleeson is an actor, director, producer, sometimes lighting designer and most recently the newly appointed Artistic Director of Playback Theatre Sydney. As a director, Lucinda cut her teeth at Tamarama Rock Surfers (TRS), the theatre company that started The Old Fitzroy Theatre. Here she directed the trilogy of Benito di Fonzo plays, the first of which was 'The Chronic Ills of Robert

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15:52

Jules Billington

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2024/07/11

JULES BILLINGTON joins me to talk about The Past is a Wild Party - by Noelle Janaczewska - a SIREN THEATRE Prod. Directed by Kate Gaul.TRASH AND HIGH ART - CENSORSHIP > GAPS AND SILENCES. GIRL ON GIRL SEX.

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28:40

Dalisa Pigram

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2024/07/09

Dalisa joins Regina to talk about Cut the Sky, Marrugeku's latest show. She is an award winning practitioner, co-artistic director of Marrugeku and one of the people behind the concept, as well as a co-divisor, performer and choreographer on this work.Marrugeku is a leading Indigenous intercultural dance theatre company. And this work CUT THE SKY is set in the north of Western Australia, the story follows climate refugees, traditional owners, miners, and more as they navigate a near-future world. A

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20:29

Lizzie Schebesta

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2024/07/04

Lizzie joins Regina Botros to talk about Shakespeare and in particular King Lear a Bell Shakespeare production. She plays Goneril and has been performing and directing the bard's work since graduating from WAAPA.Lizzie Schebesta has worked extensively in Film, Television and Theatre as an actor, director, choreographer.

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16:31

Ode to Isaiah Walsh with Ben Chapple and Austin Hayden

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2024/06/25

Writer and Director Ben Chapple and Director Austin Hayden join Regina to talk abou this new Australian work, on at the Old Fitz Theatre.A dead body has been found in the penthouse of SINGER, an aging pop star in the vein of David Bowie. SINGER’s management team hustle to clean up the mess, but the tragedy has convinced SINGER that he must make drastic changes – to reclaim his lost artistic voice. SINGER must confront the trade-offs made in pursuit of celebrity and purpose. His past haunts him,

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