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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Council endorses Melbourne arts blueprint

The Arts Strategy 2014-17 aims to support Council’s vision for a bold, inspirational, sustainable and creative city.

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Competitions compete in fairness stakes

Only five of the 14 arts competitions win five stars out of five for fairness to artists in an Arts…

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Comedian Rik Mayall dies aged 56

Tributes flow for the anarchic star of The Young Ones and Blackadder.

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Monocultural media inspires circus critique

The latest production from Westside Circus is inspired by the trend of young people resorting to surgery to look more…

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Regional dance companies join forces for Threefold

This new triple bill is the result of a unique collaboration between Tasdance and Dancenorth.

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Opera Queensland recruits 384 new singers

The company’s newest members range from active servicemen and a singing sparky, to an 86 year old great-grandmother.

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Digitising dance works for posterity

Sydney Dance Company is creating a visual archive of the works of choreographer Graeme Murphy, its former Artistic Director.

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Darwin’s diversity takes centre-stage

German theatre company Rimini Protokoll will put a human face to Darwin's unique demographics at this year's Darwin Festival.

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Australia’s first Indigenous opera set for Adelaide debut

The score for soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham’s labour of love will be performed by the Adelaide Art Orchestra.

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From The Castle to the MTC

The team behind the the media satire Frontline take to the stage with satirical attention to the political spin doctors.

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