Backstage

Manuel Stark Santos

Manuel Stark Santos from West Side Story joins Regina Backstage to talk about growing up dancing in the US to making it big on Broadway in New York to landing in Sydney to dance on the Handa Opera Stage.  What a treat!

Opera Australia's production opens on the 22nd March, 2024.

 

 

Van Badham

Van Badham joins Regina Backstage to talk about A Fool In Love for Sydney Theatre Company.

Badham said, “The greatest Australian virtue is our readiness to laugh at ourselves. What an honour it is to let loose the local sense of humour on a classic farce like Lope de Vega’s La dama boba, in which an aspirational scheme to marry off an heiress comes so spectacularly undone.

Van Badham is a writer, critic, trade unionist, feminist, activist and occasional broadcaster, an internationally award-winning theatremaker and one of Australia’s most controversial social commentators.

Anita Heiss

Anita Heiss joins Regina to talk about her adaptation of the play TIDDAS - on at Belvoir theatre.

Tiddas- Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books, lovers, and the jagged bits of life in between. Dissecting each other’s lives seems the most natural thing in the world and honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other everything, don’t they?

Dr Anita Heiss AM is a proud member of the Wiradyuri nation of central New South Wales and one of Australia's most prolific and well-known authors publishing across genres including non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial fiction and children's fiction

Leigh Sachwitz

Leigh Sachwitz is the founder and leading creative director of  flora&faunavisions.

She is an award winning creator and visionary, and the mastermind behind the content that will be displayed across 23 LED screens for Opera Australia’s The Ring Cycle.

Her work spans across immersive experiences, exhibitions, music stages, theatre and opera performances, fashion shows and art installations. Leigh has characterised a unique style through design in space and time.

 

Thomas DeAngelis

Thomas De Angelis is a playwright, theatre maker and researcher. 

He joins Regina Botros to talk about the operatic odyssey of a lifetime; the site-specific pastiche opera TRACK WORKS will take centre stage at Sydney’s iconic Mortuary Station in all its historical splendour (November 21 – December 19).

 

 

Tom Conroy

Tom Conroy joins Regina Botros to dive into The Master and the Margarita on at Belvoir Theatre.

Tom’s credits for Belvoir include Tell Me I’m Here, My Brilliant Career, Ghosts, Jasper Jones, Mortido, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Small and Tired. Find out more here.

Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Jane joins Regina to talk Malvolia (yes a twist on the role) in Twelfth Night for Bell Shakespeare.

Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. Currently Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance, Jane is an expert on Greek drama and theories of performance, and has taught at Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, and La Trobe universities.

Twelfth Night opens at Sydney Opera House 26th October 2023 until 19 November.

 

Thomas Campbell and Betty Is a Butcher

Thomas Campbell joins Regina Botros to talk through the inspiration for Betty Is a Butcher for Sydney Fringe.

Five characters, five reasons to live, an odyssey towards death.  A collage of memory, these characters jostle for existence in a theatrical phantasmagoria

A Siren Theatre Production, directed by Kate Jane Gaul.

 

Chris Mitchell and The Marvellous Elephant Man the Musical

Chris Mitchell joins Regina Botros to see the spectacle of this Sydney Fringe show at the Speigeltent.

The Marvellous Elephant man the Musical.

The story of the “Elephant Man” has been told in many books and in the famous David Lynch film starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins.

The co-director of this production Chris Mitchell takes us into this new musical production, the inspiration and the exploration.

 

Chris Mitchell is a Melbourne-based entrepreneur, major art grant recipient, graduate of 16th Street
Actors Studio and founding partner of the brand-new Northcote Theatre. He is also an accomplished filmmaker, with award-winning short films and featurettes screened at international festivals including Fantastic Fest, Snow Dance, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Tokyo International Short Film Festival and many more. The venue he founded and creatively directed - Red Bennies - won multiple Melbourne Fringe awards, including best venue, and served as an Australian hub for global artists.

Kerri Glascock Sydney Fringe 2023

Kerri Glasscock Sydney Fringe Festival Director joins Regina to talk about what's hot this Sydney Fringe Festival.

So much to see - catch the hot tips - here!

 

A month of delicious, unfiltered, utterly unbelievable performance performances, where literally anything could happen. 

Spread across every inch of the city, from Parramatta to Hurstville, the Western Harbour, the CBD, and the Inner-East festival gardens. No matter where you find yourself at The Fringe, we guarantee an unforgettable experience that will stay with you long after the festival ends. Get a variety of performance of every genre that defy convention and challenge your expectations.  

Where else can you see HUNDREDS of world premieres made in your backyard? Or if you are a visitor popping by our beautiful city, what better way to get to know the true Sydney?  

Leave your expectations at home this September as together we paint the town PINK and create the vibrant, experimental, expressive, playful, and diverse Sydney we dream of all year round.  

 

Fun FUN Fun!