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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Celebrating the art of the stagehand

Opera Australia will reveal how stage magic happens in an upcoming performance of La Traviata.

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Five women, three men honoured in Australia Council awards

Novelist Kate Grenville, audio artist Madeleine Flynn and theatre director Rosemary Myers are among the eight recipients of the prestigious…

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Richard III

There’s much to like but not enough to love in this intense but uneven Schaubühne Berlin production.

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Wot? No Fish!!

A deeply moving story about enduring love, told through pay packets, doodles, family memories and fishballs.

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Intimate Space

The secret lives of hotel workers and the inner lives of people with perceived disabilities are explored in this new…

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The Secret River

Transposing this stage play from theatre to a quarry under the stars is a masterstroke, giving its story greater resonance…

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Not lost in translation

Funding programs such as Catalyst encourage cross-cultural collaboration, but there’s more than language barriers to consider when embarking on such…

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Beyond the mid-life crisis

Growing older doesn’t have to mean abandoning a career but when your body is your instrument, it does require adjustment.

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Succession planning grows from restructure

Arts organisations need to be flexible and responsive, as do the people who work in them, if they are to…

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The allure of monsters in an age of horror

Trump, terrorism, murder: nightmares dominate the news. So why do we turn to fictionalised villains for entertainment?

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