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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Huckleberry: A Musical Adventure (Chapel Off Chapel)Set in 1895 when Mark Twain lectured in Australia, Huckleberry: A Musical Adventure is a re-imagining of Twain’s masterpiece for the 21st Century and turns gender and racial stereotypes on their head. Four actors create six roles and sing fourteen original songs in Chris Wall...

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).A Very Kransky Christmas (Alex Theatre St. Kilda)Cloistered in the old rickety family house in their hometown of Esk in Queensland, the musical sisters’ traditional Christmas festivities have until now been shrouded in secrecy. For this very special season they let you into their world of egg nog, panty-hose and painted chokos...

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Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Pins And Needles Carolyn and Fay have both been happily heterosexually married for most of their adult life. But it’s never too late for exploration... right? A heartfelt, humorous look into love, lasagne, and that tingling feeling of forever growing up. For more information visit    https://melbourne.eventful.com/events/pins-...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).80 Minutes No Interval (Theatreworks)Louis is a failing novelist, which wouldn’t be the case if he’d stop messing with tense and obscuring narrative. He used to be a theatre reviewer, and he’d still be doing that if a red box hadn’t been invented that writes perfect reviews. His girlfriend would still be around if he’d stopped...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Lamb (A New Play with Songs) (Red Stitch Theatre)From multi-award-winning playwright Jane Bodie, and featuring original songs by Mark Seymour (Mark Seymour and the Undertow, Hunters and Collectors), Lamb is the story of one family on an Australian sheep farm, over generations – the guilt of those who left; the lost desires of...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).The Celebrating Whitney Houston ShowWhitney Houston is one of the best-selling music artists of all-time, with 200 million records sold worldwide. Join us for an 11 piece Melbourne show group starring TILARNI as Whitney, presenting the story of Whitney Houston with narrative, visuals and of course the music. The show includes...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Twelfth Night (MIC production)Mistaken identities, love triangles and elaborate pranks – Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy comes to the stage in a dazzling new production by one of Australia’s most acclaimed directors, Simon Phillips (Macbeth, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the Musical), featuring music by Kate Miller-Heid...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Just a Couple of Song and Dance MenTake a trip down memory lane with Just a Couple of Song and Dance Men, a lively, quirky and toe-tapping tribute to the Hollywood performers of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Sharing its name with the 1975 vinyl album by Fred Astaire and Bing Cosby, revisit the amazing dance routines and memorable s...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Next Move 11Chunky Move presents Next Move 11 featuring two new works choreographed and performed by company dancers Lauren Langlois and Joel Bray. In an absurd vision of a future that’s hurtling towards us, Lauren Langlois and James Vu Anh Pham present physicality as the last frontier of what it means to be human. A hybrid of...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).School of Rock The Musical Based on the iconic, hit movie, this irresistible new musical follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn an extra bit of cash by posing as a supply teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight –A pupils into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping mind-b...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Astroman (MTC)Step back in time to the 80s. Gary Ablett has just signed with Geelong. Cyndi Lauper blares through the stereo. And for gifted young teenager, Jimmy Djalu, the local video arcade is the place to be over summer. His mum knows better than anyone that Jimmy is a special kid with the world at his feet, but will he ev...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).A Gentleman’s Guide to  Love and MurderA Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder is the hilariously funny musical about Monty Navarro, a penniless clerk who discovers he is ninth in line to be Lord D’Ysquith, the Earl of Highhurst. But when the D’Ysquith family dismiss Monty’s claim, all eight family members in line to be Earl, sur...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Songs for Swingin’ LoversSongs For Swingin’ Lovers! by Lachlan Graham and Amelia Homes is a memoir of love, lust, and regret set to Frank Sinatra’s title album and illustrated through song and dance. Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! explores the ‘concept’ that lives within the album. It doesn’t take place in any particular setting b...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).One and The OtherThese circus luminaries combine classic stunts, ascerbic truths, and audacious acts in a wonderfully exposing and messy celebration. Circus Oz, Legs on the Wall, desoxy, Cirque du Soleil, RetroFuturismus and Die Roten Punkte… these performers have done it before. Watch them dodge yet another curve ball. Wince...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Re-Member Me Dickie Beau might never get to play Shakespeare’s tragic prince—so the award-winning lip-sync fabulist has transformed into a human mix-tape, channelling recordings of the great historical performances of theatre’s most famous role. Seance meets documentary in this wry voyage “re-membering” the ghosts of Hamlet pa...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Suddenly Last Summer (Red Stitch Actors Theatre)Savagely poetic and provocative, Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer is a nightmarish contemporary masterpiece. This is Sebastian’s garden, a place where the line between truth and lies, sanity and insanity are blurred. Welcome to the eerie Garden District, filled with Venus...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).NINE The Musical From the romantic streets and canals of Venice, comes the exquisite and captivating story of NINE The Musical.  The spotlight is on famed Italian film director Guido Contini who is suffering debilitating writer’s block, while facing a marriage breakdown in the middle of having a mid-life crisis. At the age of...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).LexiconDaring, seductive and utterly contemporary, Lexicon is a celebration of the past, present and future of circus—a world of magic and laughter inhabited by quiet misfits and furious poetry. It’s been 250 years since Philip Astley dreamed up the circus ring and along the way created modern circus as we know it. Now the UK’...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).On Broadway Celebrating everything that is Broadway, On Broadway features some of the most iconic Show-tunes of all time! From Rogers & Hammerstein to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Rent to West Side Story, A Chorus Line and everything in between. On Broadway is guaranteed to have you dancing in your seat and singing in the shower...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Madiba The MusicalThe powerful and uplifting Madiba the Musical is a soul-stirring celebration of the visionary leader Nelson Mandela. The epic show pays tribute to the charismatic icon and activist whilst exploring the struggles, racial conflicts and divisions behind his unyielding crusade for reconciliation in South Africa....

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).TrusteesIn a major policy shift, the government has announced a moratorium on funding for performing arts organisations Australia-wide. The Trustees of Melbourne’s fictional Lone Pine Theatre Company gather to assess the damage—but what dark clouds might rise from the ashes? Amid the chatter and outrage and belligerence of pub...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).AmbushedAmbushed is a new Australian musical. At the centre of this poignant, comical and uplifting musical is Angela. Angela is a single mother with two children. Her daughter Kat is a confident, strident young woman starting university whilst her son Tom is deeply reflective and unsure of the world outside the home. Angela f...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Ich Nibber DibberNatalie Rose, Mish Grigor and Zoë Coombs Marr sure talk a lot of shit. First loves, bowel movements, birthing moans and the global financial crisis: they tackle the messy issues, and it’s all on tape.post are an acclaimed collective known for fiercely intelligent and entertaining theatre. In this colossal act...