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  • 214: Come From Away (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
    Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 214Come From Away (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)COME FROM AWAY tells the remarkable true story of thousands of stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland, Canada that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.Don’t miss this breathtaking new musical written by Tony® and Grammy nominees Irene Sankoff and David Hein, and helmed by this year’s Tony® winning Best Director, Christopher Ashley with musical staging by Tony® nominee Kelly Devine. Newsweek cheers, “it takes you to a place you never want to leave!”For more information visit  https://comefromaway.com.au/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #musical #comefromaway  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    5 min
  • 213: Shakespeare In Love (Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne, Australia)
    Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 213Shakespeare In Love (Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne, Australia)The Oscar-winning film comes to the stage in a boisterous romantic comedy directed by the illustrious Simon Phillips (Muriel’s Wedding the Musical).For more information visit  https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/season-2019/shakespeare-in-love/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #mtc #shakespeareinlove  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    4 min
  • 212: Pomona (Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne Australia) (review)
    Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 212Pomona (Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)There’s a secret place right inside the concrete heart of the city. Pomona. Nobody knows what’s in there, it’s like a place time forgot. But every day a delivery van arrives and departs. What’s going on in there? Do you really want to know? Or do you simply have no choice?Alistair McDowall’s dark and genre rich horror story is gripping from start to finish. A powerful modern thriller that asks what lies beneath the veneer of contemporary civilisation and what price must you pay to find it.For more information visit  https://bringitonthemusical.com.au/Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #pomona #redstitch  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    5 min
  • 211: Bring It On, The Musical (Australian touring production) (review)
    Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 211Bring It On, The Musical (Melbourne, Australia)Uniting some of the freshest and funniest creative minds on Broadway, BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL features an original story by Tony Award winner, Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q), music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Hamilton), music by Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning composer, Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), lyrics by Broadway lyricist, Amanda Green (High Fidelity), and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical.For more information visit  https://bringitonthemusical.com.au/Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #bringiton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    5 min
  • 210: Autocannibal (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
    Autocannibal (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia)Why do we do things that we know are bad for us?Addiction, obesity, corruption, over-consumption. On all fronts homo sapiens seem to be intent on wiping themselves out through perplexingly myopic decision making.In the aftermath of an apocalyptic social collapse, one person survives – but he’s still hungry…Drawing together elements of circus, performance art, BDSM culture and clowning, AutoCannibal is an experimental new work of solo physical theatre that explores ideas of resource depletion, environmental exhaustion, and social decay through the metaphor of the performer's body.What will we eat when we’ve consumed it all? Ourselves.For more information visit  http://www.theatreworks.org.au/program/autocannibal/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #theatreworks #autocannibal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    4 min
  • 209: Krapp's Last Tape (fortyfivedownstairs Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
    Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 209Krapp’s Last Tape (fortyfivedownstairs theatre)Australian satirist and theatre icon Max Gillies teams with award-winning director and long-time Beckett aficionado Laurence Strangio to present Krapp’s Last Tape – Samuel Beckett’s remarkable duet for solo performer and tape recorder.The comic meets the tragic in this timeless evocation of memory, existence and lost love, as Krapp, now in his 70th  year, prepares for the last annual recording of his aspirations and disappointments. As befits a play about the marking and recording of anniversaries, this production marks the 60th anniversary of its first staging and the 50th anniversary of Max Gillies’ first portrayal of the title role.For more information visit  https://www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/wp2016/event/krapps-last-tape/Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #fortyfivedownstairs #krappslasttape  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    3 min
  • 208: Solaris (Malthouse Theatre) (review)
    Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 208Solaris (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)MYSTERIOUS PLANET. INCOMPREHENSIBLE INTELLIGENCE. GHOSTS OF REGRET.‘Until you experience it,’ said Snow, ‘there’s no point talking about it.’ A cagey comment, but Kris took it in stride. Then, she experienced it.Within hours of arriving in orbit around the mercurial planet Solaris, Kris encounters evasive inhabitants, self-isolating scientists and the ghost of a lover who died long ago.Yes. Here, on the other side of the galaxy, Earth's dead visit. Above an uninhabitable world possessed by a powerful intelligence, the crew are sleepless and lost. They fight with the nature of the planet below, their mission, their own motivations, and the dark horrors of their past that haunt the space station.Could the planet itself be to blame?For more information visit  https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/solaris Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #solaris #malthousetheatre  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    5 min
  • 207: A Little Night Music (Victorian Opera) (review)
    Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 207A Little Night Music (Victorian Opera)If anyone can bridge the gap between opera and musicals, it is the incomparable Stephen Sondheim. With his characteristic wit and indelible musical talent comes the most musical of musicals: A Little Night Music.Over the course of a weekend in the country, an entangled group of worldly characters rekindle lost love, court new liaisons, and flirt with romantic possibilities.Capturing the uncertainties of love with playfulness and heartbreaking accuracy, A Little Night Music resonates with bittersweet wisdom, and speaks to us all.For more information visit  http://www.victorianopera.com.au/season/a-little-night-musicTheatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    5 min
  • 206: Wake In Fright (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
    Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 206Wake In Fright (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Australia)John Grant is well-read, but an outback misadventure strands him—cashless and jobless—in a harsh and remote Aussie outpost, Bundanyabba.So, he makes new ‘mates’: they’re quick with a drink, but with every scull a dark violence lurches forward. Are these blokes fair dinkum, or is there something more sinister at the heart of this little Aussie town?For more information visit  https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/wake-in-fright Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    4 min
  • 205: Storm Boy (MTC, Melbourne Australia) (review)
    Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 205Storm Boy (MTC, Melbourne Australia)In a wild and remote area of coastline on South Australia’s Coorong, Storm Boy and his reclusive father live in a secluded shack, hidden away from the harsh realities of city life. After befriending a local Ngarrindjeri man, Storm Boy discovers three orphaned pelican chicks and decides to take them in. What follows is a remarkable journey of discovery that will change his life forever.For more information visit  https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/season-2019/storm-boy/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews  Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, ACast etc.If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you.#theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #mtc #stormboy #asutralia #australiantheatre #livetheatre  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    5 min

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A companion podcast to Movies First, with all things Theatre related…reviews and more from the world of the live stage. Presented by respected reviewer Alex First