Category: Features

June 25, 2026 / Features

Belinda Bromilow: Wrangling butterflies, families and phones

Belinda Bromilow sprang into the world’s imagination wrangling butterflies. Such was the impact of the Sydney actor’s performance as the eccentric Aunt Elizabeth (whose hobby was training butterflies) in Stan’s series The Great that she’s been mobbed by fans from an airport in Zimbabwe to a restaurant in Portugal. Created…

May 22, 2026 / Features

Paula Arundell: The intoxicating power of commanding a stage alone

Has someone been kidnapping actors? You settle in your seat in a theatre where six or eight actors routinely fill the stage, and find… just one? And for the next 100 minutes? One-actor plays may be as old as theatre, itself, but their frequency has suddenly radically increased. The list…

April 19, 2026 / Features - Archive

Nancye Hayes: 65 years of doing what she loves

As a five-year-old, Nancye Hayes had an epiphany when she saw the musical Annie Get Your Gun. “I knew then exactly what I wanted to do,” she says. “I kept saying to my mother, ‘When I grow up, I’m going on the stage’. She’d just sigh and say, ‘Oh, that’ll…