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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Between two worlds

Canberra’s Segue Festival aims to strengthen cultural ties between Europe and Australia, providing benefits for artists and audiences alike.

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Doing it again: should you remount your work?

Independent theatre practitioners discuss the challenges and benefits of restaging already successful productions.

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Little Shop of Horrors

‘Feed me!' demands the monstrous plant Audrey II, and so beguiling is this production that you’ll probably want to, just…

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Arts budget 2016 doesn't hurt (much) but doesn't heal

For the arts, the 2016-17 budget is steady as she goes: it neither inflicts major damage nor helps heal the…

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Vale Derek Ives

The Australian circus community is in mourning following the death of clown, rigger and friend Derek Ives on Thursday.

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Vale David Page

The award-winning composer and Bangarra artist in residence has died suddenly aged 55.

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Arts SA funds Edinburgh Fringe push

More than $55,000 in funding has been invested in profile-building for SA artists at the world’s largest arts festival.

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Eastern suburbs provide audience for the West

An increased flow of works and ideas between cultural organisations in Sydney’s east and west is helping to unify the…

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Why we need dance criticism

To preserve ephemeral art forms we need to write about them creatively and exactingly.

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Filling big shoes

When your predecessor has been in the job for many years, making an arts organisation your own has particular challenges.

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