Rick White News

'Raiding The Rock Vault' and 'Raiding The Country Vault'--two of the most successful shows and brands in Las Vegas and Branson, Missouri, respectively--will be launched as worldwide concert tours in 2019. The show's producers, 'Sir' Harry Cowell and Simon Napier-Bell, have announced that touring dates are now being booked for America, Canada, the U.K., Europe, Japan and South America. On top of this, the two impresarios reveal that plans are now in the works for 'Raiding The Latin Vault' and 'Raiding The Metal Vault' in 2019/2020.

Millikin University announced on Oct. 11 that it will break ground on its new Center for Theatre and Dance in 2018 with plans to open the building in fall 2020. The $25 million facility will include a convertible theatre in addition to well-equipped studios, classrooms, design labs and public spaces for the School of Theatre and Dance. The innovative facility will house all areas of study within the nationally recognized School. The architectural partner of the project will be the Decatur, Ill., firm BLDD.

Acclaimed theatre director and Adelaide Festival Joint-Artistic Director, Neil Armfield, will direct the premiere of renowned English playwright David Hare's latest work I'm Not Running at the prestigious National Theatre in London next year.

Sydney Theatre Company is inviting applications from Australia's talented playwrights for the 2017 Patrick White Playwrights' Award and expressions of interest for the Patrick White Playwrights' Fellowship. The prizes are designed to benefit both emerging and established writers and have a total prize pool of $32,500.

Sydney Theatre Company tonight unveils its 2018 Season, Kip Williams' first as Artistic Director.

Melbourne Theatre Company today announced the inaugural writers-in-residence as part of its $4.6 million NEXT STAGE Writers' Program.

Patrick White's bizarre play, THE HAM FUNERAL is given new life in the intimate space of Griffin Theatre's SBW Stables.

Andrew Bovell, one of Australia's foremost playwrights, is the new STC Patrick White Playwrights' Fellow, it was announced tonight, 26 May 2017, at a special event at Sydney Theatre Company (STC) as part of the Sydney Writers Festival.

Sydney Theatre Company has released the judges' shortlist of five plays in the running for the 2016 Patrick White Playwrights' Award which will be announced with a rehearsed reading of the winning play at The Wharf on Friday 26 May 2017 at 7pm. The winner of the prestigious Patrick White Playwrights' Fellowship will also be announced at the event.

" 'Member when you were smart? Year six, start of high school, you know, fractions, Pythagoras's thing, all that? One day, just like that, ya got dumb, made yourself dumb, like that was more attractive."

Energised with Melbourne's urban intensity and cultural diversity, Melbourne Talam by Rashma N. Kalsie is a vibrant new play that puts our city's contemporary social issues centre stage.

Following on from the recent critical acclaim of her direction of The Trouble with Harry at The Seymour Centre, the unstoppable, multi-award winning Kate Gaul is next turning her hand to direct Patrick White's gothic comedy, The Ham Funeral - one of the most challenging and legendary plays in Australia's theatrical history! 

MopHead Productions is pleased to present the world premiere of Melita Rowston's Between the Streetlight and the Moon at the Kings Cross Theatre for a limited season from May 5.

Sydney Theatre Company shares Griffin Theatre Company's acclaimed 2015 production of The Bleeding Tree by Angus Cerini, with new audiences at The Wharf from 9 March to 8 April 2017. The original cast of Paula Arundell, Airlie Dodds and Shari Sebbens are reunited with director Lee Lewis, designer Renee Mulder, lighting designer Verity Hampson and composer Steve Toulmin to remount this "great and complex production" (The Australian).

Jessica Arthur has been appointed Sydney Theatre Company's new Richard Wherrett Fellow, succeeding Paige Rattray who vacated the post late last year for her new role as Associate Artistic Director at Queensland Theatre. The Richard Wherrett Fellowship is a career pathway opportunity for emerging and developing directors.

On Monday, November 21, 2016, Broadway Dreams will host its annual New York City Showcase - the organization's cornerstone programming event that affords select students the once-in-a-lifetime chance to turn their dreams into realities as they perform for key industry professionals.

Sydney Theatre Company's latest Rough Draft, Lethal Indifference, culminates in a free, one-off showing on Friday 18 November at 6.30pm in Wharf 2.

Sydney Theatre Company is inviting applications from Australia's talented playwrights for the 2016 PatRick White Playwrights' Award and PatRick White Playwrights' Fellowship. The prizes are designed to benefit both emerging and established writers and have a total prize pool of $32,500.

Ruben Guthrie is Brendan Cowell's brutally honest and acerbically wicked play about one man's relationship with booze, love, family, redemption and being taken to AA by his mum. What happens when those around you just won't let you quit drinking?

Ruben Guthrie is Brendan Cowell's brutally honest and acerbically wicked play about one man's relationship with booze, love, family, redemption and being taken to AA by his mum. What happens when those around you just won't let you quit drinking?