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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Anywhere goes everywhere

The Anywhere Theatre Festival has ambitious plans for 2017, expanding from a single city to an entire state.

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Arts education cuts leave sector fuming

Plans to cut the number of tertiary arts courses eligible for student loans from 70 to just 13 have shocked…

Features

On thin ice: making a new art form

What happens when the art form you love is cringe-worthy? You remake it in a contemporary manner.

Features

How to make a successful musical

If making a new play is complex and fraught with misadventure, then making a new musical quadruples all those effects,…

Career Advice

Career spotlight: Playwright

Three Australian playwrights reflect on their careers and how they got to where they are today, as well as offering…

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Cultural collisions: music meets architecture

A landmark program explores the genius of pianist Percy Grainger and architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marian Mahony Griffin, and…

Features

Tourette’s Syndrome is a laughing matter

Laughter is encouraged at a stage production which makes theatre accessible for all, while also demystifying an unusual neurological condition.

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Student loans cut to creative courses

Circus arts, acting and jewellery-making will no longer be eligible for student loans as the federal government focuses on higher…

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Arts workers ‘twice as likely’ to attempt suicide

The final stage of an in-depth report into the health and wellbeing of entertainment industry workers makes for sobering reading.

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The unbearable whiteness of being

Recent conversations about mainstage theatre’s lack of cultural diversity have been highlighted by the latest round of 2017 season launches.

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