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

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The timeless joy of anti-fashion

Finnish fashion and textile house Marimekko makes art for the everyday; its designs are celebrated in a new exhibition at…

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On the job learning accelerates artistic careers

From coast to coast, early and mid-career artists are benefitting from attaching themselves to festivals and arts organisations.

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Review: The Great War at Adelaide Festival

The horrors of the Western Front are evoked in miniature and to haunting effect, in this uneven but technically striking…

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Review: Thyestes at Adelaide Festival

Simon Stone’s breakthrough production now feels like something of a museum piece.

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Review: In The Club at Adelaide Festival

STCSA commissioned Patricia Cornelius to write about football and sexual misconduct. The result is a powerful piece of theatre.

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Additional $1 million a year promised for South Australian artists

A bipartisan promise to increase grants funding for artists has been made by the major parties in the lead up…

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Choreographic competition is about more than just awards

The Keir Choreographic Award features public programs as well as a choreographic competition, and provides a snapshot of the contemporary…

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Tracey Spicer and Sue Maslin discuss where next for #metoo in Australia

Screen producer Sue Maslin and journalist Tracey Spicer discuss the #metoo and #timesup campaigns, and where next for the fight…

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Eight artists receive 2018 Australia Council Awards

Eight recipients have been recognised by the peer-nominated Awards, which recognise and celebrate significant contributions to the artistic and cultural…

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Cross-border collaboration encourages art song evolution

A regional conservatorium and a capital city theatre have joined forces to bring the art song tradition into the 21st…

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