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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War stories and werewolves star in Blue Room’s new season

Perth’s Blue Room Theatre has revealed its second season for 2014, featuring eight innovative shows by WA theatremakers.

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New survey reveals strengths, weaknesses of live music in regional Victoria

Music Victoria’s new regional survey demonstrates the economic value of performance outside Melbourne.

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Music world mourns Godfather of House

Influential Chicago DJ Frankie Knuckles died on Monday aged 59.

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Making a show that lasts

Can you deliberately set out to create a classic work, or is the creation of a timeless masterpiece more due…

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Classical music to strengthen regional ties

The heads of 11 elite tertiary music schools from across the Asia Pacific region are meeting in Sydney this week.

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Books bound in human flesh found on Harvard’s shelves

You may love libraries, but would you want to spend your afterlife in one?

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False Christs, serial killers, and the dole queue

Australian-made musicals are like buses – you wait for one for ages, then three come along at once.

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Next Wave offers up new narratives and new visions

Next Wave Artistic Director Emily Sexton says the 2014 festival offers up a new way of imagining of the world.

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Collingwood homecoming shifts circus focus

The opening of Circus Oz’s new headquarters in Melbourne will have a flow-on effect to the entire circus sector.

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The yawning gap in Adelaide’s arts ecology

Why does South Australia's theatre sector lack an equivalent of Belvoir, Griffin, La Boite and the Malthouse?

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