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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Best and worst companies for gender parity

While balance is improving across the sector, some theatre companies still have overwhelmingly male dominated repertoire.

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MONA to create Truth & Reconciliation Park

Australia is dotted with cenotaphs but the wars on our own soil have gone unrecognised, until now.

Features

The risky business of political theatre

Sometimes derided, in the right hands political theatre can be a powerful call to arms.

Career Advice

Career spotlight: Conductor

Three conductors reflect on the steps that led to their current positions, and offer advice for those following in their…

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Hope for defunded arts courses

A Senate amendment is pressuring the government to offer a reprieve to arts courses which have been excluded from student…

Features

No pathway for disabled actors

If a casting director needs to cast an able-bodied actor to play a disabled character much of the blame lies…

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Dreamland

If these walls could talk – or sing, or dance, or make site-specific theatre – what stories might they tell…

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Start your arts career by being super smart

For students about to graduate from art or drama school into professional life, the time to think about superannuation is…

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Vale Peter Corrigan

The Australian architect and stage designer is remembered as a gifted artist, a great teacher, fiercely intelligent and richly imaginative.

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How to get the most out of your diploma

There’s more to training than getting into the right course; here are some strategies to help maximise your educational opportunities.

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