Richard Watts, Author at ArtsHub Australia

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

On the Move is ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings. A young woman practices slackrope walking.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings.

Richard Watts

Feb 3, 2025

Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. Guitarist, vocalist and co-founder Stuart Braithwaite is second from the left. The photo shows four middle-aged, fair-skinned men reflected in two large wall-mounted mirrors.

Mogwai’s new album 'The Bad Fire' transforms trauma into art

Stuart Braithwaite, co-founder of post-rock titans Mogwai, reflects on the personal pain that helped shape the Scottish band’s 11th studio…

Richard Watts

Jan 22, 2025

On the Move is ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments, comings and goings. The photo is a dramatic depiction of a road at night with trails of red light caused by a car's tail lights.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings.

Richard Watts

Jan 20, 2025

Stephanie Lake Company’s ‘The Chronicles’ is sure to be a highlight of Sydney Festival 2025 and indeed, the 2025 summer festival season generally. The photo shows five dancers of diverse cultural backgrounds holding hands and collectively leaning to the right, while in the fourground, and much more nrightly lit, a male-presenting dancer lies on their back on the stage, holding up a female-presenting dancer with one hand and one foot. Balance upon his raised extremities, the female-presenting dancer has her right leg and right arm raised in a snapshot of dynamic movement.

2025 summer festival highlights for your arts diary: part 1

A hand-picked guide to some of the most intriguing cultural events on offer around the country in January.

Richard Watts

Jan 17, 2025

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly roundup of Australian arts sector appointments. The photo, which is taken from a low angle, shows a joggers feet and legs as they run along a flat stretch of open road.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly roundup of Australian arts sector appointments.

Richard Watts

Jan 13, 2025

A sequence from Tra Mi Dinh’s 'Somewhere between ten and fourteen', which features in Sydney Dance Company's 2025 season. The photo depicts four barefoot dancers in blue coveralls dancing on a blue-lit stage. The dancer on the far left has their legs spread, their right arm raised and their left arm extended horizontally; the dancer on the right, who is the focus of the focus, stands in a half-crouch, her arms extended to the right and her right foot bent so that the side of the foot rather than her sole is touching the stage.

ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the 2025 season announcements you may have missed.

Richard Watts

Jan 8, 2025

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly wrap of Australian arts sector appointments and departures. The photo shows six people silhouetted against a sunset; they are all leaping joyously into the air, their arms raised above their heads triumphantly.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly wrap of Australian arts sector appointments and departures returns for 2025.

Richard Watts

Jan 6, 2025

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

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.

Richard Watts

Dec 24, 2024

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.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

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

Richard Watts

Dec 23, 2024

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

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.

Richard Watts

Dec 20, 2024

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