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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Flexibility, foresight and forbearance: mounting a national tour

From regional venues to major performing arts centres, adapting a work for touring requires patience, imagination and homework.

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Dancing Blokes set for Darwin premiere

Dancers Matt Cornell and Joshua Thomson are preparing to reveal their movement-based investigation into the typical Aussie male.

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Microphones become instruments in Transducer

New media artist Robin Fox and Speak Percussion’s Eugene Ughetti have collaborated for this rare, immersive performance.

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Circus in the spotlight at Melbourne Festival

Josephine Ridge’s second Melbourne Festival program reflects the culture and values of the city in which it's held.

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Staying alive: preventing suicide in the performing arts

Performance artists are more than twice as likely to commit suicide as the average person. Now the Australian charity Entertainment…

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Youth circus sector launches national manifesto

The manifesto’s key principles and strategies have grown out of a two-year, sector-wide discussion.

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Violin virtuoso appointed as WAAPA’s Head of Strings

A Canadian educator and recording artist has been appointed as Associate Professor, Classical Performance.

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$200 million fund ‘a landmark for arts philanthropy’

The Packer Family Foundation and Crown Resorts Foundation have jointly announced a new National Philanthropic Fund.

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Live music lobby has 'lost faith' in Planning Minister

Music venues and advocates say they have lost faith in Victoria's Planning Minister Matthew Guy for not protecting live music.

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Chinese acrobats join Fruit Flies for Borderville

A celebration of performance and place marks 35 years of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.

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