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

Features

How improvised is improv?

Improvisation plays a key role in many art forms, but how much of what we is see is truly spontaneous?

Features

How to work with conservative communities

From Benalla to Mandurah, communities can be resistant to change. The solution is to listen to their concerns.

Career Advice

The essential skills of a great producer

Can't act, can't sing, can raise money? Sorry but that is not the recipe for a great producer.

News

Vale Phil Motherwell

The Pram Factory actor, who also appeared in such classic films as Mad Max and Monkey Grip, has died aged…

Features

The art we’re not seeing

Performing artists and companies from Europe, the UK and North America still dominate our touring stages: do we have a…

News

Festivals fight for independence

Festival directors around the country have reacted with concern to the proposed merger of Adelaide Festival and the Adelaide Festival…

News

Unveiled: Tasmanian International Arts Festival and David Lynch

A rebranded arts festival embraces all of Tasmania, a major retrospective announced for QAGOMA, and Here Lies Love pops up.

Features

Regional festivals: community is key in an increasingly crowded market

From Castlemaine to Tennant Creek, regional arts festivals are flourishing, and maintaining a community focus is paramount to their success.

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From harbour to spire: Arts Centre Melbourne’s new CEO

After 11 years at Sydney Opera House, Claire Spencer is getting her head around a new set of budgets, venues,…

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Merger fears fester in Adelaide

A mooted merger between the Adelaide Festival and the Festival Centre would fundamentally change the city's arts ecology.

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