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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New Tasmanian literary prize announced

The new $10,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript will be presented to an emerging Tasmanian novelist.

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Adelaide Fringe Cultural Fund awards $30,000

Companies from Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide have been awarded $10,000 each in the Fund’s inaugural grants round.

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UK artist seeks Australian opportunities

The opportunity to remount his critically acclaimed one-man show is not the main reason Scottee has returned Down Under.

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Rethinking the work experience paradigm

Work experience with arts organisations is in demand but creative companies do more than provide desk-space for envelope-stuffing.

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Death of a Salesman parody shut down after legal threats

‘Cease and desist’ letters from the Arthur Miller Estate have forced the early closure of the Melbourne Fringe production.

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Many worlds in one: State Theatre Co SA’s 2015 season

Classics by Beckett, Pinter and Lawler rub shoulders with new Australian works in Geordie Brookman’s third season as Artistic Director.

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Queensland Ballet benefits from Suncorp profit

Financial corporate Suncorp, which posted a $730 million profit after tax in FY2014, is spending some on arts.

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Ten Days on the Island changes name and focus

The biennial state-wide festival will henceforth be known as the Tasmanian International Arts Festival.

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Art in the raw

The work presented at This is Not Art is risk-taking, experimental, and sometimes unfinished – and that's what makes it…

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The art of football

With the AFL and NRL grand finals almost upon us, we examine the allure sport holds for artists across all…

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