Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

Richard Watts's Latest Articles

2024 in review: arts headlines. A digital image showing 2024 sinking into the ground and 2025 atop it.
Features

That was the year that was: 2024 in review

Flip back through the pages of 2024 with our annual round-up of the year's arts headlines.

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly summary of arts sector appointments and departures. The photo depicts a barefoot Asian woman in a dynamic contemporary dance pose. She is barefoot, her back arched, her head tilted back and her arms raised.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our final round-up of Australian arts sector appointments, departures and related comings and goings for 2024.

This week’s arts news and trending topics. An abstract artwork shown on a laptop screen.
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This week’s arts news and trending topics

Our weekly wrap of arts news and reviews from around the country, highlighting the stories you may have missed.

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Q&A

What I’ve learned: Mitchell Butel

Mitchell Butel believes the best way to learn about being an Artistic Director is to become an Artistic Director.

ArtsHub's On the Move column is a weekly round-up of career comings and goings in the Australian cultural sector. The photo shows four planes at an air show, each climbing in different directions against a blue sky and leaving smoke trails behind them.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of comings and goings in the Australian cultural sector.

Sterling Notley and Matt Hogan in Canberra Youth Theatre's production of 'Work, But This Time Like You Mean It'. Two young men, both dressed in red and white shirts and black pants, sit in a pit of yellow balls against a red wall. One boy holds the other in his arms; both are shouting or screaming.
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Canberra Youth Theatre takes drastic steps to ensure its survival

The long-running company will not stage any productions in 2025 and is also cutting back and consolidating its training programs…

Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured are the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of Orpheus & Eurydice.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.

Asia TOPA's newly announced Nightlife program is a dynamic blend of performance art and club culture. A person wearing a fringed cowboy hat, facemask and fringed and laced-up dress poses dramatically, arms raised, before a culturally diverse crowd of young adults.
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Pop-up clubs and performance art announced for Asia TOPA’s Nightlife program

Returning after a five-year hiatus, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts reflects the many ways people now experience culture, including…

Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz (right) in rehearsal with the Circa ensemble. A shaven-headed man in black-framed glasses and black clothes gesticulates as he explains something to a group of shirtless men and women in dark green dresses in a rehearsal studio.
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Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz receives ISPA Distinguished Artist Award

Lifschitz joins the likes of Taylor Mac, Robert Lepage, Laurie Anderson and Pina Bausch in receiving the accolade from the…

On the Move is artsHub's weekly summary of Australian arts sector appointments and resignations. The photo is taken from the perspective of a car's driver on a freeway, speeding towards the dawn.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of comings and goings in the Australian arts sector.

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