x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Theatre First

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

arts performing arts

All Episodes

3:09

222. My Dearworthy Darling (The Malthouse Theatre,...

Theatre First ·

2019/08/08

My Dearworthy Darling (The Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)In modern-day Australia, a marriage is pulled apart by mistrust, paranoia, and violence. A woman breaks apart in the turmoil.In medieval England, a woman has mystic visions. The patriarchs write them off as female madness, but she knows her truth. These visions allow her to be heard—maybe even to connect across centuries.In My Dearworthy Darling, threads that run through history are woven into a tapestry. As the strands draw ever

en

3:23

221: The Ghetto Cabaret (fortyfivedownstairs,...

Theatre First ·

2019/08/08

The Ghetto Cabaret (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia)Any night could be their last performance. Danger, disease, and betrayal surround the Jewish musicians, singers, dancers, acrobats, opera and theatre performers thrown together and trapped in the Ghettos of WWII. But their fear is transformed into art as they try to create meaning out of the terror and chaos around them.Full of Yiddish songs unheard for decades, The Ghetto Cabaret is provocative and challenging, revealing the black

en

4:23

220: Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production...

Theatre First ·

2019/08/06

Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company, Melbourne, Australia)It’s the height of the jazz age, the roaring 20’s, and small-town girl Millie Dillmount has just arrived in New York City, ready to make her dreams come true.Millie’s plan is simple: find a job as a secretary for an eligible bachelor, and then marry him. It doesn’t take long for Millie’s “thoroughly modern” plan to go awry. Her conniving landlady Mrs. Meers plots to kidnap Millie’s best friend Dorothy and sell her into slavery.

en

3:29

219: Price Check The Musical (The Alex Theatre....

Theatre First ·

2019/08/03

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 219Price Check The Musical (The Alex Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)Price Check! is a new Australian musical comedy in 2 acts, exploring the lives of 5 diverse characters in a suburban Melbourne supermarket. Mr Butler is a well-paid profit hungry store manager with a bitter divorce and a bad dance routine. Narelle Sims is a middle-aged widowed checkout chick slowly working her way through the junior shelf

en

3:14

218: Blackrock (EbbFlow Theatre Co,. Melbourne,...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/30

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 218Blackrock (EbbFlow Theatre Co., Melbourne, Australia)Blackrock is an Australian beachside working-class suburb where the youth surf by day and rave by night. Desperate to impress, Toby hosts a party at the local surf for his 18th birthday. It is unsupervised with alcohol flowing freely.The following morning, it is revealed that 15-year-old Tracy Warner was killed at the party. As details of her death

en

4:18

217: Fifty Words (Lab Theatre, Melbourne Australia)...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/27

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 217Fifty Words (Lab Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)Adam and Jan are alone together for the first time in almost 10 years. Without the buffer of their nine-year-old son (who is away at his first-ever sleepover) Adam’s attempt to seduce his wife before he leaves on business the next day begins a suspenseful nightlong roller-coaster ride of revelation, rancour, passion, and humour that explores a modern-day

en

3:24

216: This Wide Night (Green Light Theatre, Melbourne,...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/25

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 216This Wide Night (Green Light Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)On her release from prison, Lorraine heads straight to Marie's. On the inside they used to share everything, but the friendship that once protected them now threatens to smother the fragile freedom they have found.Please be aware that this play contains strong language and adult themes and is not appropriate for children.For more information

en

2:50

215: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/21

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 215A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia)Following a sold-out premiere season in 2016, Sentient Theatre’s stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic essay returns. Breathing new life into the history of women and literature, this production features four performers as aspects of Woolf’s mind in conversation with herself and the audience.Today, with campaigns such

en

4:22

214: Come From Away (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne,...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/20

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

en

3:59

213: Shakespeare In Love (Melbourne Theatre Company,...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/19

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

en

4:58

212: Pomona (Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne Australia)...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/19

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

en

4:58

211: Bring It On, The Musical (Australian touring...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/18

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

en

3:21

210: Autocannibal (Theatre Works, Melbourne,...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/18

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

en

2:32

209: Krapp's Last Tape (fortyfivedownstairs Theatre,...

Theatre First ·

2019/07/05

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,

en

4:16

208: Solaris (Malthouse Theatre) (review)

Theatre First ·

2019/07/05

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

en

4:38

207: A Little Night Music (Victorian Opera) (review)

Theatre First ·

2019/07/01

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

en

3:13

206: Wake In Fright (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne,...

Theatre First ·

2019/06/27

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

en

4:27

205: Storm Boy (MTC, Melbourne Australia) (review)

Theatre First ·

2019/06/22

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

en

4:11

204: Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street...

Theatre First ·

2019/06/22

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 204Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (40th Anniversary Production)The pre-eminent leading man of Australian musical theatre, Anthony Warlow, is joined by one of Australia’s best-known stage and screen performers, the incomparable Gina Riley, as the pair join forces in this spectacular re-imagined concert version of the musical thriller SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.For more

en

3:35

203: Puttin' On The Ritz (Australian and UK Tour...

Theatre First ·

2019/06/19

Puttin’ On The Ritz (Australian and UK Tour 2019) (review)With a full supporting cast of west end singers and dancers.The spectacular American production of PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ first toured the UK in 2014, where it broke box office records on its first time in front of a British audience. Since then the show has toured around the globe playing to sell out houses.PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ takes you on a musical journey with wonderful music from three legendary composers, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and

en

381 results

Similar Podcasts

Start The Breakthrough Full Audiobook Now, Thriller Fans!

thebookvoice.com

Get Hooked On The Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook Experience!

thebookvoice.com

西四五条

主播郑捕头

Podcast Patapoe

0d0a

On Mic Podcast

Jordan Rich