Backstage

Patrick Kennedy

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 Festival with Eugene Ionesco’s 'The Lesson'.

With over 15 years experience at the heart of arts and culture, Patrick joined Sydney Fringe in 2024. 

Brendan Cowell

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

Priscilla Jackman and The Cost of Living (back catalogue)

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 the last decade, written by former carer turned playwright, Martyna Majok.

Co-director and performer Daw leads an exceptional cast including Philip Quast (STC's Do Not Go Gentle), Kate Hood (Malthouse Theatre's The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man), and Zoe de Plevitz (Netflix's Boy Swallows Universe) in a beautifully rendered four-hander about our need to care, or be cared for, no matter the distance that age, race and disability might place between us.

 

 

Silia Kapsis and Eurovision on tour Sydney 2024

 

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 November 2024. 

Senhit at Eurovision on tour Sydney 2024

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 the Eurovision world tour. 

Matt Day

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 

 

Dean Bryant

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 Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company co-production of Fun Home.

Presented and Produced by Regina Botros

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Kate Britton Liveworks Festival

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. 

 

Di Smith & Katrina Foster

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 changed. But in a revelatory theatrical twist, all roles are performed by older actors who were seventeen many years ago, bringing the experience of age to the dreams of hopeful youths.

Jack Symonds

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 can play anything” (Australian Book Review).