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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Music really doth hath charms to soothe a savage breast

Heart disease, depression and anxiety may be alleviated by listening to the right composers, a UK study has found.

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Here they are! NPEA draft guidelines released

The Federal Government has released guidelines on how it will spend the money it has taken from the Australia Council…

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How to get your work into international festivals

Jonathan Holloway, Artistic Director in-waiting of Melbourne Festival, describes his programming vision and offers advice for artists hoping to be…

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Theatre broadcasts a vital link for isolated audiences

Streaming productions out into the regions offers companies much more than just audience development opportunities.

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New age markets for classical music

Are meditation, mindfulness and therapeutic audiences the next growth market for the classical music sector?

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Getting political: David Berthold’s debut Brisbane Festival

Explorations of race, colonialism and the environment are among the many connecting threads running through the 2015 Festival program.

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MTC touts a major's support for S2M

The MTC Board has bought into the conflict between majors and S2M sector with a diplomatically-worded statement emphasising the relationship…

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Cheap tickets for opera first-timers

The Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation has gifted $1.5M to Opera Australia for a new access program in Sydney and…

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Sofie Laguna wins 2015 Miles Franklin Award

Former YA author awarded $60,000 in prize money for a book described as ‘an extraordinary novel about love and anger’.

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How to create a digital archive

Dusting off your archives and putting them online may seem like a good idea, but how exactly is it done?

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