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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Love Never Dies

REGENT THEATRE: Magnificent staging and strong performances can’t hide the hollow heart of Lloyd Webber’s latest musical monolith. Three stars.

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New Art Club - Big Bag of Boom

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL: Contemporary dance is ripe for satire, which is exactly what these UK choreographers turned comedians do…

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The Wau Wau Sisters' Last Supper

THE FAMOUS SPIEGEL GARDEN: US burlesque duo Adrienne Truscott and Tanya Gagne leave no sensibilities unruffled in this delightful cabaret…

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A Behanding in Spokane

MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY: Playwright Martin McDonagh’s confronting black comedy shocks and entertains in equal measure.

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Don Parties On

MTC: David Williamson’s sequel to his most famous play reunites his major characters some 40 years later.

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Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

SYDNEY FESTIVAL: Cornish company Kneehigh Theatre return to Australia with their acclaimed production THE RED SHOES.

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Hume unveils her second Sydney Festival program

SYDNEY FESTIVAL: John Malkovich, Paul Kelly, Philip Glass, and Emmylou Harris are among the hundreds of artists performing in Sydney…

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My Name is Rachel Corrie

FORTYFIVE DOWNSTAIRS: The controversial play about a peace activist killed on the Gaza Strip in 2003 is coming to Melbourne.

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A Krakouer of a show

DECKCHAIR THEATRE: Reg Cribb’s multi-award-winning story about the footballing Krakouer brothers returns for a national tour.

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Shining a light on Vivid Sydney

OPINION: When is an arts festival not an arts festival? When it’s a giant advertising campaign.

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