[1] Numerous actors and writers have appeared and worked at La Mama, including Graeme Blundell, Kerry Dwyer, Jack Hibberd, and John Romeril, all of whom formed the Australian Performing Group.
[1] In 1976, Burstall turned over the day-to-day operations of La Mama to Liz Jones,[3] who remained the theatre's artistic director until 2023.
[6] Burstall was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours.
She died on 14 June 2013, at the age of 87,[1] survived by two sons and their wives, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A 1945 portrait of Burstall by Arthur Boyd is held by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra,[9] while Boyd's pencil drawing, "Betty Burstall with her son Dan" is held by the Art Gallery of South Australia.