Best YELLA Podcasts (2026)

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Mehhma Mahli and Fitz Happens 29:59

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2M ago29:59

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In this episode, we dive into Fitz Happens — a bold new initiative by New Ghosts Theatre Company designed to launch and raise funds for their Playwright Fund. This unique monologue showcase, part of the company’s Mainstage program, brings together five original 10-minute monologues inspired by the haunting theme: “Home is Where the Haunt Is.” We ex…

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Gabrielle Scawthorn and Matilda Ridgeway and The Edit 16:33

3M ago16:33

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In this episode of Backstage, Regina Botros speaks with Gabrielle Scawthorn, the writer and director of The Edit, and Matilda Ridgeway, one of its powerhouse performers. The Edit, now on stage at Belvoir, is a sharp, provocative work born from Gabrielle’s deep dive into the world of reality television. Drawing on countless interviews, the play expl…

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Joseph Althouse in Whitefella Yella Tree 16:18

3M ago16:18

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In this episode of Backstage, Regina Botros sits down with Joseph Althouse, the Pertame and Tiwi actor captivating audiences in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Whitefella Yella Tree by Dylan Van Den Berg. Set in the early 19th century, Whitefella Yella Tree is a tender and devastating love story between two young Aboriginal men, Ty and N…

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Alex McClintock - 24 Hours in Kings Cross 29:59

4M ago29:59

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Photographer Alex McClintock joins Regina Botros on Backstage to talk about his latest collaboration with audio documentarian Mike Williams: 24 Hours in Kings Cross, a genre-bending live documentary showing at Sydney Fringe Festival. Captured over a single sleepless day, the show is a gritty, glamorous tribute to Sydney’s infamous red-light distric…

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Mayu Iwasaki and The Face of Jizo 17:14

4M ago17:14

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Regina Botros sits down with actor Mayu Iwasaki, who stars as Mitsue in The Face of Jizo at the Seymour Centre. This poignant play, written by Hisashi Inoue, explores the emotional aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing through the eyes of a young librarian and her father’s ghost. Mayu shares her journey into producing this play and the role, plus the …

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Welcome to The AI Odessey 0:34

5M ago0:34

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Welcome to the AI Odessey! AreAre you stucked? Wanna know more about AI, how to make money with AI, or wants to know anything about AI so as to stay in the track and get the very best of this digital world with the help of AI? Join us as we explore the Odessey of AI

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Beyond the Boilerplate: The Human Skills AI Can't Replicate 2:49

5M ago2:49

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In this episode, we go beyond the code to explore what truly makes a great developer. As AI takes on the tedious, boilerplate tasks, we'll discuss the critical human skills that remain indispensable—from problem-solving and system design to user empathy and collaboration. Discover how to leverage AI to free yourself from the mundane and focus on th…

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AI & Full Stack: The Future of Code or Just a Better Tool? 2:14

5M ago2:14

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Will AI take over the tech world and make developers obsolete? In this episode, we dive deep into the real impact of AI on full-stack development. We’ll explore why AI won't replace serious developers—only the "unserious" ones. Discover how AI can be a powerful partner for building faster, smarter, and more creative solutions by handling the repeti…

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Nick Schlieper on Grief is a Thing with Feathers 24:04

5M ago24:04

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In this episode, Regina Botros sits down with legendary lighting and set designer Nick Schlieper to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, now playing at Belvoir Theatre. Co-adapted by Schlieper alongside Simon Phillips and Toby Schmitz, this theatrical reimagining of Max Porter’s acclaimed verse novel dives dee…

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Peter Evans Takes on Coriolanus 30:12

6M ago30:12

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Peter Evans, Artistic Director of Bell Shakespeare, talks with Regina Botros about his new production of Coriolanus as well as, how he came to be the Artistic Director of the company. One of Shakespeare’s least performed and most politically charged plays, it's staged at the Neilson Nutshell Theatre at Wharf 2/3—Bell Shakespeare’s home. Evans has l…

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Jessica Arthur Talks Koreaboo 22:16

6M ago22:16

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In this episode, Regina Botros speaks with Jessica Arthur, director and dramaturg of Koreaboo, a bold new work for Griffin Theatre Company. Currently the New Work Associate - Artist Development at Malthouse Theatre, Jess has held key creative roles at Sydney Theatre Company, including Resident Director (2019–2022), Directing Associate, and Richard …

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Pamela Rabe on Beckett’s Happy Days 26:21

7M ago26:21

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I’m joined by one of Australia’s most celebrated actors—Pamela Rabe. With a career spanning decades, Pamela has earned acclaim across stage and screen, and is also a respected stage director. Her versatility shines through in a wide range of genres—from musicals and comedies to powerful dramas. You may have seen her in unforgettable productions suc…

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Alex Berlage - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 13:12

7M ago13:12

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In this colourful episode, Regina Botros is joined by the talented Alexander Berlage, the award-winning director and lighting designer, to dive into his dazzling new production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Hayes Theatre. How do you take a cult Almodóvar classic and reimagine it for the stage? Alex shares the creative journey …

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Jess Fuchs and Sex Jokes For Women 17:00

8M ago17:00

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🎙️ Regina Botros in Conversation with Jess Fuchs On this episode, Regina chats with the brilliantly chaotic Jess Fuchs about her upcoming comedy festival show, Sex Jokes for Women. Jess is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer, actress — and self-proclaimed forgotten middle child. Known for her razor-sharp wit and unfiltered storytelling, she’s b…

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Tom Gleisner 15:50

9M ago15:50

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Tom Gleisner joins Regina Botros to talk about his musical Bloom, playing at Sydney Theatre Company. He's an Australian comedian, television presenter, producer, director, writer, occasional actor and author. Gleisner currently hosts Network 10's Have You Been Paying Attention?.By Regina Botros

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Izabella Louk 15:22

10M ago15:22

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Izabella joins Regina to talk about her play These Youths Be Protesting a finalist for the 2024 Martin Lysicrates playwriting award. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meets Don’t Look Up, this new Australian play is a comedy about climate change, about the chaos of youth and how these intersect with the campaign trail of a federal election. The production w…

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Lucy Clements 10:02

10M ago10:02

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Lucy Clements joins Regina Botros to talk about her latest show Iphigenia in Splott at Old Fitz Theatre and her position as the Artistic Director of the theatre space. Lucy is the Founder, Managing Director and CEO of New Ghosts Theatre Company Inc, and the Artistic Director of the Old Fitz Theatre. She specialises in the creation and presentation …

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Keegan Joyce - No Love Songs 18:18

10M ago18:18

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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 Melbou…

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Tom Wright and Picnic at Hanging Rock 28:32

10M ago28:32

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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 talen…

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Alana Valentine and her new work Nucleus 21:10

11M ago21:10

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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 C…

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Shiv Palekar in 4000 Miles 20:10

11M ago20:10

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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 …

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Patrick Kennedy 12:16

11M ago12:16

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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…

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Brendan Cowell 15:52

12M ago15:52

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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 nigh…

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Priscilla Jackman and The Cost of Living (back catalogue) 20:05

1y ago20:05

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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 multidisc…

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Silia Kapsis and Eurovision on tour Sydney 2024 3:10

1y ago3:10

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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 …

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Senhit at Eurovision on tour Sydney 2024 3:31

1y ago3:31

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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 fur…

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Matt Day 17:08

1y ago17:08

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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 …

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Dean Bryant 15:55

1y ago15:55

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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 …

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Kate Britton Liveworks Festival 22:50

1y ago22:50

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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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Di Smith & Katrina Foster 24:19

1y ago24:19

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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…

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Jack Symonds 20:11

1y ago20:11

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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 …

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Merlynn Tong with Golden Blood 15:30

1+ y ago15:30

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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 al…

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Lucinda Gleeson 18:24

1+ y ago18:24

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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 t…

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Jules Billington 15:52

1+ y ago15:52

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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.By Regina Botros

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Dalisa Pigram 28:40

1+ y ago28:40

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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 …

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Lizzie Schebesta 20:29

1+ y ago20:29

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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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Ode to Isaiah Walsh with Ben Chapple and Austin Hayden 16:31

1+ y ago16:31

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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 dr…

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Joseph Twist 28:47

1+ y ago28:47

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Joseph Twist joins Regina Botros to talk about Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan for Opera Australia. Joseph is a composer and musician and straddles film music and concert music arenas, crosses genres from ancient vocal music, opera, contemporary orchestral music, jazz, music theatre and cabaret. He has a long list of awards working with Moby, on …

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Emma Diaz 18:07

1+ y ago18:07

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Actor Emma Diaz joins Regina to talk about her role in Never Closer on at Belvoir Theatre. Emma Diaz is an actor and producer based in Sydney. A graduate of WAAPA Acting, her theatre credits include Blessed Union (Belvoir), The Great Divide (Ensemble), On The Beach (Sydney Theatre Company), The Crucible (Sport for Jove), Hamlet (Bell Shakespeare), …

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Emma Whitehead 14:58

1+ y ago14:58

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Emma joins Regina Botros to talk about the Australian premier of SHOOK. Emma is a director, creative producer, and performer from London, UK, grateful to be living and creating work on unceded Bidjigal land. She is the founder and artistic director of experimental company Lost Thought. Shook is playing at the Substation at Qtopia in Darlinghurst. L…

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Thomas ES Kelly 28:15

1+ y ago28:15

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Thomas ES Kelly joins Regina Botros to dig into his work SILENCE playing at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Unwrapped season, dedicated to uncovering extraordinary creatives. SILENCE pulls the Treaty conversation out from under the rug and slams it back on the table. Funny, irreverent and reverberating with power, this is contemporary dance a…

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Sarah Giles 33:29

1+ y ago33:29

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Sarah joins Regina to talk about how she has paved her way in as a director and the things that interest her. As well as her latert production No Pay? No Way! on at Sydney Theatre Company. Sarah Giles is an award-winning opera and theatre director. Described by Limelight Magazine as one of Australia’s most thoughtful theatre-makers, she has a passi…

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Manuel Stark Santos 20:20

2y ago20:20

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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.By Regina Botros

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Van Badham 29:54

2y ago29:54

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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…

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Anita Heiss 14:33

2y ago14:33

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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…

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Leigh Sachwitz 30:30

2y ago30:30

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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 performan…

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Thomas DeAngelis 24:20

2y ago24:20

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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).…

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Tom Conroy 16:11

2y ago16:11

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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.By Regina Botros

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Jane Montgomery Griffiths 17:47

2y ago17:47

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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…

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Thomas Campbell and Betty Is a Butcher 19:14

2+ y ago19:14

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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.…