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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Inspire60: Max Delany

The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s new Artistic Director & CEO tells us what he finds inspiring about his work.

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Regional voices ignored by regional arts inquiry

A Parliamentary Inquiry into access to media and the arts in regional and rural Australia failed to hold public hearings…

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Winners announced at NSW Premier's Literary Awards

A total of $305,000 was awarded across 13 prize categories on Monday night at the State Library of NSW.

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Who are the new guard?

Among the gloom of last week there’s a bright note: some companies have received multi-year organisational funding for the first…

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Risk taking needs to happen in the board room

In the old model artistic directors came up with risky ideas and boards applied brakes. But smart governance likes a…

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Shock and anger as sector responds to funding crisis

The news that 62 organisations have lost operational funding has sent shock waves through the Australian arts community and its…

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Government spends $12 m in mysterious Catalyst windfall

Another 45 successful Catalyst grants were quietly announced on Friday but no one knows where the money is coming from.

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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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