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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip has been to the theatre and she’ll be telling us about that in her Perth roundup, before introducing her local guest artists, Shannon Yujnovich from The Lester Prize for portraiture which is on the hunt for young artists… Then, at Theatre Works , they have a brand new building in their back stage area and a brand new show – The Three S...

Sadly, we’re without Elena Vereker this month, but she’ll be back on deck in April for our regular Adelaide round up… So, our first guest this week is trans playwright Eva Rees who’s new psychological thriller, Djuna is about to open as part of Darebin Speakeasy… Then, it’s a bumper edition of Screens & Streams… …starting with Sian Mitchell w...

Here we are in March already, and Steph Speirs is here with the Theatre Network Australia round up and an introduction to our TNA Member of the Month – a former TNA regular on Behind the Scenes – Tessa Leong … After that, Susie Dee is back for a chat – this time about THREE different show’s she directed…  Rodeo Clown and I’m With Her at HotHouse The...

Ahead of this year’s International Women’s Day , Behind the Scenes presenter Chris Thompson sits down with one of the country’s most respected and prolific theatre directors Susie Dee. In addition to reflecting upon the long struggle of women artists to gain equal footing with their male counterparts, particularly in areas of artistic leadership and decision making, Susie chats a...

Our first Darwin round-up for the year is also a chance to meet our new Darwin Correspondents. Yes, that’s right – not one but two correspondents who’ll be sharing the role (which makes sense considering they’re sharing the CEO role at Brown’s Mart !)…  so, say hello to Yvette Walker , new CEO and Artistic Director… and Liz Rogers , new CEO and Gene...

Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is first up this week which means it must be our first catch up with what’s on in Perth for the year…  PLUS our first chance to meet a local guest artist – this month it’s the Blue Room Theatre’s Executive Director Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa … Then, even though the Midsumma Festival is done and dusted, one of its exhib...

Technically, tonight should be our first Adelaide segment for the year…  but our Adelaide correspondent Elena Vereka from Insite Arts is in Melbourne. Why? We’ll find out when I catch up with her… in person for a change…  (ps… here’s a clue !)   Then, it’s St Kilda Festival time again and that’s a good reason to chat with City of P...

Theatre Network Australia ’s Co-Executive Director Josh Lowe is kicking off our first TNA spot for 2025 AND introducing us to the first TNA member of the Month for the year – it’s theatre maker, performer and producer Jeremy Goldstein who’s Theatre Works show Truth to Power Café is part of this year’s Midsumma Ferstival … …and speaking of Midsumma...

On the first show of each month, Behind the Scenes welcomes the Theatre Network Australia Member of the Month. For the February 3, 2025 show, the TNA Member of the Month was theatre producer and performer Jeremy Goldstein who talks about his Midsumma Festival show Truth to Power Café which has already been performed sixty times in eight different countries welcoming eight hundred participan...

We start the year in Seattle where we catch up with Marilyn Raichle who, for those with long memories, was last on the show in 2018 speaking about an exhibition called The Art of Alzheimer’s which included works by her mother Jean. Well, now Marilyn’s written a book about her ‘care partner journey’ with Jean and others. It’s called Don’t Walk Away: A Care Partne...

It’s our final Behind the Scenes Summer Special for the start of 2025 and this week we’re trying out a bit of a different format for our usual Screens & Streams segment. Generally, in that spot on the first week of every month, Marc Gracie joins us to review current movie and streamer releases. But, because this is a ‘special’ edition, we’re changing the focus fro...

On our second summer special for 2025, you’ll meet two fabulous Sydney based singer/songwriters – Ella Haber and Cinta - who sometimes tour together, often sing backup vocals for each other and, not surprisingly, are very good friends. They both have new albums – Cinta’s album Worth Control came out late last year and Ella’s album Through Blood Like Kin, will be out l...

We kick off our first summer special for 2025 with a visit to Toronto in Canada (where it is most definitely not summer). There we’ll find our first guest. RJ Martine is the founder of Joyslam  - Canada’s premier Aboriginal funk rock recording project. At the end of last year, RJ was a guest on the December 16 episode of Behind the Scenes… if you missed it, all is not lost...

It’s that time of the year again, when we review the movies and streamers we’ve seen on our big and small screens – not just the ones we talked about on Screens & Streams but many more that we couldn’t fit into the show. As always, Marc Gracie joins Chris Thompson to talk about our favourites, our disappointments and the releases we’re looking forward to in 2025....

Our last regular show of the year is always also our Christmas show – HoHoHo… and so tonight. we’re looking at some events coming up in January and February which might just make excellent last minute Christmas presents… We’ll chat with Simon Myers to hear what gigs are coming up at MEMO Music Hall in ST Kilda… We’ll chat with Melissa Doecke to find out...

How does a dancer and choreographer end up as both a doctor and a highly successful music event promoter? Best we ask The Sound Doctor , David Corbett when he drops in for a chat. How many artworks can you see at Linden New Art’s annual Postcard Show and how can you get an audio described tour of the exhibition? Best we ask Linden New Art Curator Hamish Sawyer . How do you capture the magic...

Kim Marriot leads the Monash Assistive Technology and Society Centre at Monash Uni and has an ongoing interest in the way data visualisation can be sued by people who are blind or have low vision. That’s why there’s a chapter about it in the book he’s just written – The Golden Age of Data Visualisation: How Did We Get Here?   Meanwhile, in Japan, singer/songwriter Laur...

Our final Theatre Network Australia Member of the Month for 2024 is…  TNA itself – and we’ll look back over the achievements of the year with Erica McCalman, Josh Lowe, Steph Spiers, Lauren Swain, Christian Schooneveldt-Reid, Wen-Juenn Lee and, of course, Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez … Then, Theatre Works’ final show for the year is Skating in the Clouds and its writer, Clare Mendes will tell us what kind o...

First up tonight, Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart is here for the very last time…  she’s moving on…  so we say farewell as she tells us about the 2025 programme she’s leaving behind… Then, I drop in on Next Wave where Jacina Leong and Frances Robinson can tell us about their exciting new strategic plan… Meanwhile, the Bendigo Brass Band and the Bendigo Chorale are joining forces for a spectacular Ch...

Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is here for our final Perth round up of the year… plus, of course, her final local guest artist for the year – Ricky Arnold , Executive Director of Art on the Move … Then, I’m down on the banks of the Birrarung/Yarra River with author Dr Judith Buckrich to talk about her new book which, of course, is all about the Birrarung/Yarra Meanwhile, at ArtsHouse...

Elena Vereker from InsiteArts is here for our final Adelaide round up of the year… plus, of course, her final local guest artist for the year – prolific and eclectic playwright Verity Laughton … Then, Australia’s first and only environmental festival – the Mountain Festival - is about to kick off near Mt Macedon and its founder and Director Sonia Orchard will tell us what’s in the programme… Meanw...

Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here for our November Theatre Network Australia segment. She’ll catch us up on the This Is How We Do It report into the working trends of the independent performing arts sector – before introducing us to the TNA member of the Month – dancer, choreographer and founder of Bonnie Curtis Projects – Bonnie Curtis . Then a bit of music from Oscar nominated, BAFTA Award winning comp...

We’re back at the Koorie Heritage Trust for the start of this week’s show, walking and talking once again with Curatorial Manager Gail Harradine , this time through the Spirit of the Animals exhibition… After that, we’ll meet Communications Manager and Performer Madeleine Magee-Carr from WIT Theatre who are soon to open their new play First Love is the Revolution… Meanwhile, it’s Melbourne Queer F...

Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip gets us going tonight with her wrap up of what’s been happening in Perth before she introduces her local guest artist… writer, director, designer, producer and actor Sreekanth Gopalakrishnan from the Great Indian Theatre Company who are soon to open his new play Crimson Gully … Then, if you were listening to Melbourne Fringe Creative Director Simon Abrah...

Elena Vereker from InSite Arts is back this week with her round up of what’s been happening in Adelaide…  and, of course, a local guest artist for us to meet – this month it’s record producer, musician, installation artist and DJ, Moutaiz Al-Obaidi better known to his fans as Motez … Then, another four Melbourne Fringe artists are here for our third week of Fast Fringe… this week we meet… Acclaime...