Theatre First

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 ever find the courage to reach for the stars?Directed by Helpmann award-winning director Sarah Goodes (The Children, A Doll’s House, Part 2), Astroman is playwright Albert Belz’s irresistibly funny and heart-warming tale of family and friendship. Starring Elaine Crombie (Black Comedy), Nicholas Denton (Wild), Kamil Ellis (Macbeth), Tahlee Fereday (Fallen), Tony Nikolakopoulos (Wentworth) and Calen Tassone (Red Dog) with Tony Briggs (The Sapphires) as Associate Director, this world premiere is the ultimate love letter to the 80s.For more information visit  https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/season-2018/astroman/ 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 #astroman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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, surprisingly start dying from unnatural causes! This dastardly plot has been created to feature a single virtuoso performer as the D’Ysquith family; quadruple Helpmann Award winner Mitchell Butel stars in these eight roles.Between murders, Monty is trying to woo Sibella Hallward until he finds himself drawn to the young Phoebe D’Ysquith. With looks like his, he could get away with murder!Starring Chris Ryan (King Kong) as Monty, with Nancye Hayes (Brigadoon), Alinta Chidzey (Curtains) and Genevieve Kingsford (Brigadoon).For more information visit http://www.theproductioncompany.com.au/gentlemansguide/ 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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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 but is more an expression of the themes and trends within each track. With a cast of four world-class professional dancers and one Sinatra rich singer, it explores the themes of love, lust, lies, and regret amongst many others. The album itself was originally strung together in 1956 with an idea of young love in mind and all the songs had an expression of swing to them. The cast together with the rich five-piece band paint an overarching picture to all the ebbs and flows the classic album has to offer.Featuring the hit songs, Old Devil Moon, I’ve Got You Under My Skin and You Make Me Feel So Young. This production takes you back in time, awakening your senses to the glorious sounds of Frank Sinatra whilst drawing you into the tangled web of life that this album represents.For more information visit https://chapeloffchapel.com.au/show/songs-for-swingin-lovers/ 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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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 as old wounds are reopened. Comically candid and slightly alarming, this duo performs like they have nothing to lose.One and the Other tells the story of Sue Broadway and her not so helpful assistant Debra Batton.For more information visit http://lamama.com.au/2017-autumn-program/one-and-the-other 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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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 past and stumbling upon the remarkable story behind the greatest Hamlet almost never seen—because no recording exists, except in the memories of those who were there.For more information visit https://www.festival.melbourne/2018/events/re-member-me/#.W8ceRGgzaUk 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 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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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 flytraps, subversive secrets, and broken hearts.The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable, Sebastian, has died while on vacation with his rebellious cousin Catharine. What the girl saw that day last summer was so horrible that she is presumed mad and locked away in an asylum to keep her mouth shut.As time goes on, Catharine’s ravings about Sebastian’s sexuality and fate become so transgressive that his dear mother Violet decides that locking her away isn’t enough. She calls in an aspirational young Doctor to have the girl lobotomised and cut out her hideous story for good.A thrilling examination of legacy, sanity, and sexuality, this Southern gothic melodrama will cut straight through the heart with its visceral imagery and erotically charged symbolismFor more information visit https://redstitch.net/gallery/suddenly-last-summer/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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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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 40, Guido must call on the nine closest and most powerful women in his life to put him back on the road to success and happiness. NINE The Musical is a rich tapestry of everything Broadway, with knockout power songs, captivating choreography and a deeply moving story that makes you think about your life and the people in it.For more information visit https://www.stageart.com.au/ninethemusical Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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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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’s leading large-scale contemporary circus company has taken that pivotal moment as the springboard from which to launch their latest spectacle.An experience like no other, audiences are placed nose to nose with international artists who have perfected their craft in ways nobody else has managed.For more information visit https://www.festival.melbourne/2018/events/lexicon/#.W8KMR2gzaUk Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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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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 for weeks to come.Featuring 8 rising stars of the Musical Theatre world and a live 3 piece band!Director: Leanne MarslandMusical Director: Stephanie Lewendon-LoweFor more information visit https://chapeloffchapel.com.au/show/on-broadway/ Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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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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.The show about destiny and desire springs to life with vigour and heart, and looks to forgiveness beyond the hate.It is a story of forbearance, passion and hope in the fight for a brand new world of modernity and freedom. With its pulsating African dance, strident and haunting drama, stunning visuals and inspiring songs, Madiba the Musical is a unique theatrical experience to lift our spirits.For more information visit https://madibamusical.com.au Theatre First RSS feed:   https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean 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 #madiba #madibathemusical  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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