Theatre First

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 257 Songs for Nobodies  (Arts Centre, Melbourne Australia)  First performed 10 years ago, Songs For Nobodies is a spellbinding one woman play, a tour de force of imagined encounters between five mid 20th-century divas, Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas, and five ordin...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 256 Chicago  (Arts Centre, Melbourne Australia)  Winner Of 6 Tony Awards®, 2 Olivier Awards, A Grammy® Award and Thousands Of Standing Ovations. For more information visit  https://chicagothemusical.com.au/tickets/melbourne/ Theatre First RSS feed:  https://rss.acast.com/theatre -first  Subscribe, rate a...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 255Human Nature: Christmas at The Palms (The Palms at Crown, Melbourne Australia) It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas as Australia’s superstar vocal group Human Nature announce an exclusive Christmas concert season at The Palms at Crown Melbourne. Singing all the Christmas and Holiday classics fro...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 254People Suck (Theatre Works, Melbourne Australia) Jerks, morons, flakes – let’s face it: PEOPLE SUCK. Winner of Best of Toronto Fringe and Patron’s Pick, this irreverent, hilarious and all-too-relatable musical comedy explores the many, many ways in which people are just the worst. Following rave review...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 253Tales of Hoffman Ooh La La (LUX Cabaret Nightclub, Prahan, Melbourne Australia) This is a popular French inspired burlesque take on Offenbach’s famous Tales of Hoffman at LUX - the luxurious cabaret nightclub in Prahan. Our Hoffman is slashed to 90 minutes and infused with French and French inspired po...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 252Apocalypse Meow - Crisis is Born (Malthouse Theatre Company, Melbourne Australia) Get ready for imminent cat-astrophe. Everyone’s favourite Wandering Star returns to glory in the silly season, bursting onto the Merlyn Theatre stage with a sizzling hot band, a swag of satire, childhood dreams and maybe...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 251Photograph 51 (Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne Australia) Rosalind Franklin was one of the great scientists of the 20th Century. In 1952 she used X-ray diffraction photography to examine the intricate structure of DNA, but her trail-blazing work was never recognised. Threatened by her brilliance,...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 250Bright Star (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne Australia) Steve Martin’s feel-good new musical! Inspired by a real event and featuring the Grammy-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love, regret, and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 249Zander’s Boat (Q44 Theatre, Melbourne Australia) At the edge of the sea three Shetland women, adrift on the rhythm of the waves and wind, paint the air with their words as they tell tales of love, death and miracles. Set against the backdrop of Shetland with its’ history of the magical and mystical the...

Theatre First Episode 248Lobby Hero (fortyfivedownstairs,Melbourne Australia) When you can’t trust the law, who can you trust? Four New Yorkers become tangled in a murder investigation when a lobby security guard clashes with his controlling manager, an idealistic rookie cop, and her volatile senior partner during a night of suspense, humour and compromised morality. Oscar-winning writer Kenneth L...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 247Mansion the Experience (Melbourne Australia) Not for the faint of heart, MANSION is fully immersive, dance theatre and circus horror experience, breaking down the wall between performer and audience member, taking audiences on an interactive horror journey of the senses! Built in the 1800s, the Labassa...

Love/Chamberlain (Theatre Works, Melbourne Australia) Courtney Love and Lindy Chamberlain cross paths on a remote highway somewhere in Australia, seeking an elusive Oracle. An unlikely connection ensues, sliding in and out of time with cosmic reverberations of grief and loss.  A series of chance encounters unfold. These extremely different public figures, villified within their own time, meet each...

The End of Eddy (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Australia)PRESENTED BY MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVALThe internationally acclaimed story comes of age on stage. Édouard Louis was put on the world map at just 21 with this devastating true account of growing up gay and poor in rural France. The perpetual grey weather that hung over Eddy met its human counterparts in his alcoholic father, miserab...

Theatre First Episode 244The Nico Project (The Melbourne International Arts Festival,  Australia) Survivor. Muse. Creator. Destroyer.  One of pop culture’s most original female artists, Nico has long remained one of its most enigmatic. After an early career as actor and muse for filmmakers such as Fellini and Warhol, German-born Christa Päffgen blazed onto the American music scene like a meteor. H...

Theatre First Episode 243A Brimful of Asha (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Australia)In this ring it’s son versus mum. We don’t like his odds. Ravi’s parents rolled with the punches when they learned he wanted to be—gasp!—an entertainer.  But unmarried at 27?  This will not stand. Canadian actor, writer and director Ravi Jain’s A Brimful of Asha is the hilarious true story of a man whose Indian-born...

Theatre First Episode 242Riot (MC Showroom, Melbourne Australia)Life is sh*t. There’s a Riot brewing… Or maybe that’s just in Gin’s mind. Either way, it’s f*cked. Either way they’re all f*cked. But not Gin. Gin is ready for it. Oh, she is f*cking ready. For more information visit http://www.themcshowroom.com/event/riot/ Theatre First RSS feed:    https://feeds.megaphone.fm /ivetheatrereviews   Sub...

Theatre First Episode 241Grey Rock (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Australia)In a small village in the West Bank, a former TV repair person secretly builds a space shuttle to reach the moon. Without money or technology—but convinced that curiosity is stronger than gravity—Yusuf works passionately in the backyard shed. When Yusuf’s family and friends discover this unimaginable project, things begin t...

Theatre First Episode 240Control (Red Stitch Actors Theatre)“We keep your memories safe, so you don’t have to.”A heavily pregnant ex-ballerina, a child detective, a bitter puppeteer and a feminist pop princess hurtle towards Mars. The world is watching. Isn’t it? On the eve of a revolution, Nicki and Caroline attempt to gain control over their lives as their A.I. superior, Alex, dances the night a...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 239The Window Outside (Wise Owl Theatre, Melbourne Australia)Written by Belinda Lopez Starring Ian Rooney, Carrie Moczynski, Julie-Anna Evans and Antonia MochanDirected by Liz Connors​Sponsored by the Victorian Seniors Festival, Wise Owl Theatre bring Melbourne and regional Victoria audiences a powerful a...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 238 The Beautiful Game (Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne Australia) From the producers of Blood Brothers, Ben Elton and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning musical The Beautiful Game premieres at Chapel Off Chapel. Set in Northern Ireland in the troubled 1970s, The Beautiful Game tells the story of ordinary p...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 237 Railed (Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Australia) Welcome to 'Railed', a western-themed circus spectacular, combining the trademark physical talents, finely chiseled bodies and hilarious comic timing of the Head First Acrobats. Prepare yourself for when bare-chested circus meets bare-knuckle ba...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 236Private Peaceful (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne Australia)From the author of War Horse comes Private Peaceful, the acclaimed stage version of the internationally best selling novel. A very young World War 1 soldier awaits his court-martial in No-Man’s-Land. As his fate approaches, he relives his life, f...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 235The Other Place (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia)The Other Place is a show about two remarkable, tenacious women who pioneered the world of theatre. It is a work that demonstrates that even in the face of adversity, the bonds of women will shine through. The play highlights the historical power imb...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 234You Look Like Your Father (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia)Based on a true story; an honest, raw and unapologetically relatable tale of fatherhood. Bouncing back and forth over three decades, this new play follows two generations of the same family line, as all involved face the challenges and...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 233Ulster American (Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)A searing comedy on show business post-#MeToo that brilliantly captures the confusion of ‘woke’ men trying to mansplain their positions of power. A talented young female writer, an A-list actor and an ambitious West End director meet to d...