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

South Australian Greens Senator and arts spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young, centre, together with Greens candidate for the Federal seat of Adelaide, Mat Monti (left), and Katie McCusker, the Greens candidate for Sturt (right).
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Australian Greens launch new arts policy, make explosive allegations regarding Creative Australia’s CEO

Creative Australia’s CEO Adrian Collette "misled" the Senate Estimates hearing on Tuesday according to the Greens’ arts spokesperson Senator Sarah…

Richard Watts

Feb 28, 2025
Creative Australia CEO Adrian Collette AM. A middle-aged, fair-skinned man with a shaved head, and wearing glasses and a blue suit, smiles at the camera.
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Australian Pavilion may be empty at Venice 2026; no resignations forthcoming

CEO Adrian Collette and Board Chair Robert Morgan will not be resigning, despite the damage caused by Creative Australia’s abrupt…

Richard Watts

Feb 26, 2025
On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly wrap of the Australian arts sector's appointments and resignations. The photo shows a male dancer dancing en pointe.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments and resignations from across the country.

Richard Watts

Feb 25, 2025
GRIT Productions' 'BITE' at The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe. A sex positive circus-burlesque-cabaret. The phto depicts a female-identitying performer pol-dancing, but the pole is untethered and the performer is using circus skills as as pole-dancing skills to create the scene.
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Cabaret review: Bite, The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe

A queer 'spiegeltent style' cabaret celebrating sex positivity in the face of growing homophobic hate globally.

Richard Watts

Feb 22, 2025
Arts news watch is ArtsHub's summary of the week’s trending arts sector hot topics. A photo of a blue eye in a green and blue pained face.
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Arts news watch: this week’s trending topics

Keep your eye on what’s happening in the sector with our weekly summary of the most-read arts news stories on…

Richard Watts

Feb 22, 2025
A scene from A Daylight Connection's 'A Nightime Travesty' at Malthouse Theatre for Asia TOPA 2025. Two Aboriginal women dressed as airline stewardesses stand on a blue-lit set as bloody rags fall from above. Behind them at stage right stands a sexy, shirtless, Aboriginal actor playing Death; at stage left, two musicians are visible.
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Theatre review: A Nightime Travesty, Malthouse Theatre, Asia TOPA 2025

A ferociously funny, controlled yet chaotic Blak vaudevillian comedy that pulls no punches and decapitates its prisoners.

Richard Watts

Feb 21, 2025
'Swingers – The Art of Mini Golf' has been announced as the first event for RISING 2025. The photo is a close-up of someone wearing glamorous high heeled shoes, standing on a fake putting green. Their right foot rests on a golf ball and they are leaning on a mini golf club. The dramatic space of the Flinders Street Station Ballroom is visible in the background.
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Swingers have their moment to shine at RISING 2025

The first event for Melbourne’s winter festival RISING has been announced: a playable art exhibition celebrating the game of mini…

Richard Watts

Feb 19, 2025
On the Move is ArtsHubs weekly round up of arts sector appointments and resignations from around the country. The photo, taken with a slow shutter speed and manual tracking during the 2017 Chicago Marathon, depicts a man using a racnig wheelchair to compete in the marathon. The background of the photo is blurred, conveying the speed with which the three-wheeled wheelchair is propelled.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments from across the country.

Richard Watts

Feb 18, 2025
Keep your eye on this week's top arts news stories with ArtsHub's arts news watch column. Photo depicts a woman in a white sleeveless dress standing amidst the bright green leaves of a tree; her face is obscured by a giant cartoon eye.
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Arts news watch: this week’s trending topics

We report it – you read it. Keep your eye on this week's top arts news stories.

Richard Watts

Feb 15, 2025
A scene from Shaun Parker & Company's 'KING' depicting seven shirtless male dancers, some with fists raised threateningly, others pointing accusingly, at an eight dancer who lies prone and protesting on the stage.
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Dance-theatre critique of toxic masculinity, 'KING', invited to Belgrade Dance Festival

Shaun Parker and Company’s ‘KING’ tours to Serbia next month, with Australian triple-threat dancer, actor and singer-songwriter Keiynan Lonsdale now…

Richard Watts

Feb 14, 2025
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