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

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On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of arts sector appointments. The image shows a woman with long hair jumping in the aur. Her long hair flies up around her and her legs are outstretched. Blue sky and white clouds are visible behind her.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of comings and goings in the Australian cultural sector.

Creative Australia Award recipients Patrick Carter (left) and Amanda Brown (right).
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Creative Australia Awards 2024 recipients announced

Eleven artists were recognised for their contribution to the national cultural story at the Creative Australia Awards ceremony on Thursday…

Auditions for the NIDA Open 2025 Studios program open in December. The photo shows a group of young people in theatre blacks in a rehearsal studio, with the focus on two young women crouched on the floor and gesturing to one another expressively.
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How pre-professional training can transform your passion into a career

NIDA Open Studios courses provide rigorous training for people who are planning a career in the arts or need more…

The late Roz Hervey. A white woman with shoulder length grey hair and dark-framed glasses smiles for the camera. She is wearing a black top and sits before a black background.
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Vale Roz Hervey

Beloved by the Australian arts sector, Hervey chose to leave this life with dignity, on her own terms and surrounded…

A publicity image for 'Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly)' by Kirli Saunders, part of Merrigong Theatre Company's MERRIGONX program in 2025. A First Nations woman in a red dress stands ankle deep in a pool of water, an arid landscape and blue sky visible behind her.
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Merrigong Theatre Company’s 2025 season is its largest ever

A committed development program for local artists, coupled with a range of touring works from around the country, have been…

PJ Williams (left) as Estragon and Christopher Samuel Carroll (right) as Vadimir in The Street Theatre's 2024 production of 'Waiting for Godot'. A bearded man leans against another man wearing a hat, ad hugs him. They are sitting on a rock on stage; a park bench is visible behind them.
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Waiting for Godot: a deep dive into the human condition

A new production of Beckett’s existential masterpiece is now playing The Street Theatre in Canberra.

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments and resignations. Photo depicts a parkour jumper mid-leap, framed above a shipping container against a grey sky.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

A long-serving Artistic Director steps down, new Board appointments, and a Chief Conductor’s tenure is extended in this week’s wrap…

The light installation 'Karla Bidi' will run for the duration of Perth Festival 2025. Six people stand with their backs to the camera beneath a starry sky, on the banks of the Swan River. A bright beam of light rises from the riverbank into the sky before them.
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Responding to and celebrating place: Perth Festival’s 2025 program revealed

Anna Reece discusses some of the highlights of her first Perth Festival as Artistic Director.

Brink Productions' 'Looking for Alibrandi' is sure to resonate with STCSA audiences. A young woman in a school uniform sits beside an older woman and a white cloth-covered table. Tomatoes sit on the table in front of them and rain down around them.
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State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2025 season: from Parliament House to Broadway

Mitchell Butel’s final season as STCSA Artistic Director ranges from black comedy to heartfelt First Nations storytelling, with a dollop…

Stephen Rea in 'Krapp's Last Tape', one of many international productions in the 2025 Adelaide Festival. The lugubrious, lined, character-rich face of Irish actor Stephen Rea, who sits at a table bearing an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape recorder.
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Adelaide Festival 2025 brings the world to South Australia

An array of international acts join First Nations artists and Australian companies for the 40th Adelaide Festival.

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