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

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Review: Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, Her Majesty's Theatre

You’re terrible, Muriel. Terribly underwhelming, that is.

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Lifetime achievement award for Patricia Cornelius at Green Room Awards

Just weeks after winning US $165,000 (AUD $234,000) in the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama, the Melbourne playwright has been honoured…

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Chamber music supergroup assembled for Mozart’s momentous Gran Partita

Performing chamber music requires musicians of the highest calibre – sensitive, intuitive and virtuosic. Omega Ensemble searches Australia to discover…

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Sam Strong will leave Queensland Theatre to support wife's career

After four successful years at the helm, Strong is putting the career of his wife, Katherine Slattery, first as she…

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$80,000 federal funding for theatre’s 50th anniversary

The 50th anniversary of the SBW Stables Theatre in Kings Cross has been supported with a federal grant to Griffin…

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Exit interview: Geordie Brookman, State Theatre Company SA

Brookman looks back on the challenges and highlights of his term as Artistic Director after seven years at the company’s…

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Australian audio comedy series snapped up by the BBC

A half-hour narrative sci-fi comedy series originally crowdfunded for digital download will soon air on BBC Radio 4.

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Contemporary narratives from the Kimberley, WA

The Art Gallery of Western Australia is leading the way in the curation and presentation of contemporary Aboriginal art as…

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It’s Bangarra’s 30th anniversary and the whole country is invited

Australia’s premiere Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance company celebrates 30 years with an ambitious tour taking in every state…

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Celebrating 120,000 years of First Nations art in Australia

From the dynamism of Bangarra and individual artists like Dorothy Gabori, to the large-scale works in festivals and art centres…

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