Backstage

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 Aus...

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 Aok...

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 tri...

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...

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 uncer...

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” (Sy...

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...

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 Fonz...

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, traditi...

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-of...

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 Bluey, in Hollywood as well as his own music. It's such a treat to talk with him a...

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), and so many more

She is in Belvoir's production of NEVER CLoser set during the confli...

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. Locked up in a dangerous youth offenders’ institution, teenagers Riyad and Cain trade ...

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 as you haven’t seen it before. This is one not to miss!

Thomas E.S. Kelly is a prou...

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 passion for comedy and opera and has directed over 25 productions for companies inclu...