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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

Mitchell Butel in the rehearsal room for STCSA's 2024 production 'The Questions'. Butel is a fair-skinned man aged 54, clean shaven and with neatly styled short brown hair. He wears a brightly-patterned jumper and is sitting at a table, leaning forward to smile for the camera.

What I’ve learned: Mitchell Butel

Mitchell Butel believes the best way to learn about being an Artistic Director is to become an Artistic Director.

Richard Watts

Dec 20, 2024

ArtsHub's On the Move column is a weekly round-up of career comings and goings in the Australian cultural sector. The photo shows four planes at an air show, each climbing in different directions against a blue sky and leaving smoke trails behind them.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

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

Richard Watts

Dec 16, 2024

Sterling Notley and Matt Hogan in Canberra Youth Theatre's production of 'Work, But This Time Like You Mean It'. Two young men, both dressed in red and white shirts and black pants, sit in a pit of yellow balls against a red wall. One boy holds the other in his arms; both are shouting or screaming.

Canberra Youth Theatre takes drastic steps to ensure its survival

The long-running company will not stage any productions in 2025 and is also cutting back and consolidating its training programs…

Richard Watts

Dec 13, 2024

Asia TOPA's newly announced Nightlife program is a dynamic blend of performance art and club culture. A person wearing a fringed cowboy hat, facemask and fringed and laced-up dress poses dramatically, arms raised, before a culturally diverse crowd of young adults.

Pop-up clubs and performance art announced for Asia TOPA’s Nightlife program

Returning after a five-year hiatus, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts reflects the many ways people now experience culture, including…

Richard Watts

Dec 10, 2024

Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz (right) in rehearsal with the Circa ensemble. A shaven-headed man in black-framed glasses and black clothes gesticulates as he explains something to a group of shirtless men and women in dark green dresses in a rehearsal studio.

Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz receives ISPA Distinguished Artist Award

Lifschitz joins the likes of Taylor Mac, Robert Lepage, Laurie Anderson and Pina Bausch in receiving the accolade from the…

Richard Watts

Dec 9, 2024

On the Move is artsHub's weekly summary of Australian arts sector appointments and resignations. The photo is taken from the perspective of a car's driver on a freeway, speeding towards the dawn.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

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

Richard Watts

Dec 9, 2024

Darwin Symphony Orchestra will tour the Northern Territory in its 2025 season. The photo looks down on the orchestra, arrayed around a podium as a middle-aged man in a suit conducts. The photo is taken from above and to the side, so that we can see the strings section, a harpist, percussionist and other Orchestra members.

Darwin Symphony Orchestra to tour Territory-wide in 2025

The DSO’s 2025 season will see Jonathan Tooby’s last hurrah as Artistic Director/Chief Conductor, but not before the Orchestra undertakes…

Richard Watts

Dec 6, 2024

Samuel Gaskin in the 2025 Midsumma Festival production 'HONŌUR'. The New Zealand born musician poses dramatically, hands raised and face painted, against a colourful backdrop.

Midsumma and Mardi Gras programs ensure a queer summer ahead

Asexual comedy, drag kings, lesbian drama, trans theatre and in-your-face gay cabaret feature in the programs of Sydney and Melbourne’s…

Richard Watts

Dec 3, 2024

Uncle Archie Roach and Aunty Ruby Hunter have been immortalised in bronze in Fitzroy’s Atherton Gardens. The photo shows the two statues standing closely together and smiling.

Uncle Archie and Aunty Ruby honoured with Fitzroy statues

Bronze statues of the two singer-songwriters were unveiled at the Atherton Gardens on Saturday.

Richard Watts

Dec 2, 2024

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings. The photo shows a plane in flight, high above the clouds, focusing on the plane's wing at evening and the last glow of sunlight in the darkening sky.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of comings and goings in the Australian arts sector, including new trustees, a new Chair, balletic appointments…

Richard Watts

Dec 2, 2024

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