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Theatre First Episode 334 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella – Regent Theatre - Melbourne Australia This lush production features incredible orchestrations, jaw-dropping transformations and all the moments you love—the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and more—plus some surprising new twists! Be transported as you...

Theatre First Episode 333 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Dirt – Chapel Off Chapel - Melbourne Australia A Russian and an Australian walk into a bar. Neither are who they say they are. The Victorian premiere of this smash-hit queer thriller, presented by and starring Wil King (ABC/Netflix’s Why Are You Like This, Strangers in Between) and their real-life pa...

Theatre First Episode 331 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). The Return – Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Australia An epic, 250-year story to return home the captive bodily remains of first peoples. Once considered ‘exotic’ trophies of antiquity, the bodily remains of Indigenous men, women, and children served scientific theories of evolution and were prized obj...

Theatre First Episode 331 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Driftwood (The Musical) – Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia Driftwood – The Musical tells the inspirational story of the renowned Austrian/Australian sculptor Karl Duldig and his artist/inventor wife, Slawa Horowitz-Duldig. We follow their lives in pre-war Vienna, Slawa’s ingenious invention of...

Theatre First Episode 330 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Girl From The North Country – Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Australia A universal story about family and love, this award-winning Broadway musical features over 20 songs from legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan including Hurricane, Like a Rolling Stone, To Make You Feel My Love and Forever Young, all...

Theatre First Episode 329 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). The Rise and Fall of the City Of Mahagonny – Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne, Australia Presented by IOpera and Melbourne Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a satirical opera which premiered in Germany in 1930. A modern-day parable and an attack on excess, the eclectic score also draws...

Theatre First Episode 328 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). The Heartbreak Choir – MTC, Melbourne, Australia From the revered playwright behind one of MTC’s most beloved recent hits, The Architect, comes this funny and uplifting celebration of music, friendship and community. A world premiere production, The Heartbreak Choir is a warm-hearted hug of a play th...

Theatre First Episode 327 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Matador la experiencia – Meat Market, Melbourne, Australia Inspired by a tale as old as time, MATADOR is a fiery fusion of burlesque, dance and jaw-dropping circus acts. Set across a fiery Spanish sunset, this is a tale of forbidden love, carnal desires, passion and pain, a tale of a love torn bull &...

Theatre First Episode 326 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Hamilton – Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, Australia Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, HAMILTON has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre. For more information visit https://hamiltonmusical.com.au/me...

Theatre First Episode 325 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Heroes Of The Fourth Turning – Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne, Australia Catholic guilt and US conservative politics are given a whack in the Australian premiere of Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning. The play was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. For more information visit htt...

Theatre First Episode 324 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Happy End – Playhouse Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia Slapstick humour characterises a little staged and decidedly different style of saints and sinners musical. Victorian Opera’s Happy End is set in America in 1919. The storyline sees the Salvation Army come face to face with gangsters. For more i...

Theatre First Episode 323 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). An American In Paris – Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia Once you learn that Robbie Fairchild was a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet you can understand why he glides so effortlessly across the stage in a stellar display as the centrepiece of An American in Paris. For more information visi...

Theatre First Episode 322 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Yentl – Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia An original English and Yiddish adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, Kadimah’s full length play is a lively representation of the spiritual and moral dilemma at the heart of the tale. For more information visit https://www...

Theatre First Episode 321 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Next to Normal – Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia The Tony Award Winning Musical Drama This electric musical drama stars Queenie van de Zandt in the leading role of Diana Goodman, the matriarch of a modern-day family traumatised by loss and the unpredictable effects sparked by her Bipolar diag...

Theatre First Episode 320 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Admissions – MTC, Melbourne, Australia Starring Kat Stewart (Heisenberg) alongside Heidi Arena (Born Yesterday), Simon Maiden (A View from the Bridge), William McKenna (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and Deidre Rubenstein (Shakespeare in Love), Admissions is a scorching satire that holds a mirror...

Theatre First Episode 319 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Nothing – fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia A riveting adaptation of Janne Teller’s award-winning novel, now considered a modern classic. When Pierre Anthon smugly declares there’s no meaning to life, he leaves his ninth-grade classroom, climbs a plum tree, and stays there. To prove to him th...

Theatre First Episode 318 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Phantasmagoria – Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia PHANTASMAGORIA explores the complex relationship between a woman and her violent father long after he has passed away. Briony unearths her father’s childhood experiences in Sri Lanka, his brutal World War 2 history in Burma, migration, alcoholism,...

Theatre First Episode 317 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Tommy – Palais Theatre, Melbourne, Australia An electrifying fusion of theatre and rock ’n’ roll, the Australian premiere of The Who's Tommy is set to blow the roof off Melbourne's rock 'n' roll stomping ground, St Kilda's Palais Theatre. In 1969, The Who's rock opera concept album, Tommy, was a grou...

Theatre First Episode 316 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Stardust + The Mission – Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia Two powerful yet forgotten Australian stories uncovering our past to reveal who we are today. STARDUST tells the story of bandleader and trumpet player Col Brain. THE MISSION follows “Fighting Gunditjmara” man Allan McDonald off to war....

Theatre First Episode 315 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Music – The MC Showroom, Melbourne, Australia Two actors researching a theatre project befriend a seemingly quiet and ordinary man named Adam. In reality, Adam’s lifestyle is carefully planned — a precarious tightrope-walk over his mental illness. Now, Adam’s new friends are at risk of throwing his l...

Theatre First Episode 314 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Death of a Salesman – Hearth Theatre, Melbourne, Australia Rediscover one of the greatest plays of the 20th Century, Arthur Miller’s heartbreaking masterpiece Death of a Salesman, brought to life by an extraordinary ensemble of actors in the intimate setting of fortyfivedownstairs. For more informati...

Theatre First Episode 313 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Grace – Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne, Australia Three women. Three generations. One long weekend in Copenhagen. Emma has finally ‘made it’. She is about to receive the Hans Christian Award – the ‘Little Nobel Prize’ of children’s fiction. With her mother, Beth, by her side to share in the moment, Em...

Theatre First Episode 312 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Fun Home – MTC, Melbourne, Australia Based on Alison Bechdel’s bestselling graphic novel about growing up and coming out, this groundbreaking multi-Tony Award-winning musical arrives in Melbourne following its acclaimed Sydney season. For more information visit https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-ticket...

Theatre First Episode 311 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). I’m Yours Maddy – MC Showroom, Melbourne, Australia Come along with Maddy, a distinguished young Melbourne Performer and Choreographer, in this hour long Burlesque Comedy Cabaret. I’M YOURS, MADDY is a risqué, poetic and sometimes crass love letter to Sex and Dating. Through the old fashioned lens of...

Theatre First Episode 310 Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Touching The Void – MTC , Melbourne, Australia Based on a true story, Touching the Void will transport you to the snow-capped peaks and glacial crevasses of the Peruvian Andes for a jaw-dropping adventure starring Helpmann Award winner Lucy Durack alongside Joe Klocek and Karl Richmond. For more info...