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

Queensland Ballet’s 2025 season dominated by safe works from the company’s past

After funding constraints led to the abrupt resignation of its last Artistic Director in August, Queensland Ballet’s 2025 season is…

Richard Watts

Nov 26, 2024

A publicity image for ACT Hub's 2025 season opener, 'Mojo' by English playwright Jez Butterworth. A dark-haired young man with fair skin holds a sword in front of his face. One side of his face is stern and impassive, the other side shows his eye and mouth wide open, as if shouting.

ACT Hub, Canberra’s home of indie theatre, reveals 2025 season

A new festival of Australian works, a contemporary Irish classic, musical theatre and Macbeth feature in the ACT Hub’s recently…

Richard Watts

Nov 26, 2024

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.

ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

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

Richard Watts

Nov 26, 2024

'Back to the Future: The Musical', original Broadway cast. A young man leaps into the air while playing an electric guitar, accompanied by a blaze of sparks.

Back to the Future: The Musical set for 2025 Sydney premiere

Based on the 1985 film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J Fox, the Olivier Award-winning musical opens in…

Richard Watts

Nov 25, 2024

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly wrap of Australian arts sector appointments. The photo depicts a line of ballerinas training en pointe, showing their feet and shoes in close-up.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings, including appointments at Sport for Jove, WASO, Geelong Arts Centre…

Richard Watts

Nov 25, 2024

This week’s arts news and trending topics. The image depicts a plastic orange megaphone against an orange background.

This week’s arts news and trending topics

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

Richard Watts

Nov 22, 2024

Eileen Kramer in the forthcoming Sydney Festival production 'AFTERWORLD'. A 110-year-old woman holds her hands to her veiled face.

Vale Eileen Kramer

The iconic Australian dancer and choreographer has died aged 110.

Richard Watts

Nov 20, 2024

$3,880,000 over two years has been allocated to 12 small to medium companies in a new pilot program from Creative Australia. The photo is a close-up of multiple Australian $100 notes laid out and overlapping one another.

Creative Australia trials $3.88 million program to support small to medium sector

An additional $3,880,000 investment over two years from the Federal Government will support 12 small to medium companies across the…

Richard Watts

Nov 20, 2024

Opera Queensland's 'La Cenerentola (Cinderella)' is the centrepiece of the 2025 Brisbane Bel Canto Festival. A fair-skinned young woman wearing an exaggerated wreath of flowers on her head stands with shoulders bared against a floral background.

From bohemia to the outback: Opera Queensland launches its 2025 season

In-demand international coloratura soprano Sumi Jo goes bush for Opera Queensland’s Festival of Outback Opera in 2025.

Richard Watts

Nov 19, 2024

Guy Simon is pivoting from acting to being an Assistant Director, and speaks about the experience for ArtsHub's 'So you want my arts job?' series. An Aboriginal man with black hair and brown eyes gazes steadily into the camera.

So you want my arts job: Assistant Director

If you are willing to be an extra set of eyes and ears for the director, working as an assistant…

Richard Watts

Nov 18, 2024

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