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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Melbourne venues unite to host inaugural Festival of Live Art

Arts House, Theatre Works and Footscray Community Arts Centre will join forces for a major new collaboration in March 2014.

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White Night: synchronised swimming to street art

The dusk til dawn event returns in expanded form in 2014, with 11 all-night precincts featuring bands, projections and tattoo…

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Local creativity helps revitalise Queensland communities

Five new towns will participate in an initiative which to date has engaged over 70 artists and 10,000 audience members.

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Alumnus bequeaths Old Masters to University of Sydney

A generous donor has donated $500,000 and bequeathed an additional $5 million and a collection of Dutch Old Masters.

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Summer hots up for queer artists

Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Melbourne’s Midsumma have revealed their festival line-ups for 2014.

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Olympian cabaret artist scores crowd-funding gold

The Australian diver’s campaign to raise funds for his inaugural cabaret show made over $5000 in six hours.

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Losing our Independents

Brisbane’s Metro Arts brings down the curtain on its annual Independent season, claiming the word no longer has relevance.

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WTF? Brisbane Powerhouse celebrates the art of collaboration

Local productions feature alongside works from the USA, Ireland, New Zealand and Korea at the World Theatre Festival 2014.

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QLD’s youth arts orgs dig in for a fight

The state’s youth arts sector is presenting a united front following Arts Queensland’s recent funding cuts.

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From robots to pop music: 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows announced

Ten mid-career artists have each been awarded $160,000 over two years.

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