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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Six Degrees revamp VCA's Grant Street Theatre

Formerly home to student performances, Grant Street is set to become Melbourne’s latest destination bar.

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Do we need a National Indigenous Theatre?

The new conversation about a National Australian Theatre has a feeling of deja vu for Indigenous performers who have long…

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Chunky Move commissions are unstoppable

Three dance talents present their latest choreographic works in this triple bill commissioned as part of the Next Move program.

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Young performers grapple with mortality and manhood

A new series of forums presented by St Martins Youth Arts Centre explores young people’s thoughts about death and masculinity.

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NICA and Flying Fruit Flies join forces to strengthen circus sector

The two national schools have signed a Memorandum of Understanding designed to strengthen career pathways for circus students.

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Turner biopic delights at Cannes

Mike Leigh’s new film about the English landscape painter has delighted critics at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Arts in special education receives boost in WA

Sensorium Theatre has received $202,000 funding for multi-sensory arts projects created for young people with special needs.

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Community radio spared the axe

$17.7M funding for the community broadcasting sector confirmed in the 2014 Federal Budget.

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Hayloft set to make a splash with refugee comedy

The award-winning company’s first production since relocating to Sydney is a black comedy about the politics of border protection.

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Roger Hodgman likes As You Like It

The director’s new production of Shakespeare’s life-affirming comedy for Black Swan stars an entirely West Australian cast.

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