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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

Eileen Kramer in the forthcoming Sydney Festival production 'AFTERWORLD'. A 110-year-old woman holds her hands to her veiled face.

Vale Eileen Kramer

The iconic Australian dancer and choreographer has died aged 110.

Richard Watts

Nov 20, 2024

$3,880,000 over two years has been allocated to 12 small to medium companies in a new pilot program from Creative Australia. The photo is a close-up of multiple Australian $100 notes laid out and overlapping one another.

Creative Australia trials $3.88 million program to support small to medium sector

An additional $3,880,000 investment over two years from the Federal Government will support 12 small to medium companies across the…

Richard Watts

Nov 20, 2024

Opera Queensland's 'La Cenerentola (Cinderella)' is the centrepiece of the 2025 Brisbane Bel Canto Festival. A fair-skinned young woman wearing an exaggerated wreath of flowers on her head stands with shoulders bared against a floral background.

From bohemia to the outback: Opera Queensland launches its 2025 season

In-demand international coloratura soprano Sumi Jo goes bush for Opera Queensland’s Festival of Outback Opera in 2025.

Richard Watts

Nov 19, 2024

Guy Simon is pivoting from acting to being an Assistant Director, and speaks about the experience for ArtsHub's 'So you want my arts job?' series. An Aboriginal man with black hair and brown eyes gazes steadily into the camera.

So you want my arts job: Assistant Director

If you are willing to be an extra set of eyes and ears for the director, working as an assistant…

Richard Watts

Nov 18, 2024

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of arts sector appointments. The image shows a woman with long hair jumping in the aur. Her long hair flies up around her and her legs are outstretched. Blue sky and white clouds are visible behind her.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

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

Richard Watts

Nov 18, 2024

Creative Australia Award recipients Patrick Carter (left) and Amanda Brown (right).

Creative Australia Awards 2024 recipients announced

Eleven artists were recognised for their contribution to the national cultural story at the Creative Australia Awards ceremony on Thursday…

Richard Watts

Nov 15, 2024

Auditions for the NIDA Open 2025 Studios program open in December. The photo shows a group of young people in theatre blacks in a rehearsal studio, with the focus on two young women crouched on the floor and gesturing to one another expressively.

How pre-professional training can transform your passion into a career

NIDA Open Studios courses provide rigorous training for people who are planning a career in the arts or need more…

Richard Watts

Nov 15, 2024

The late Roz Hervey. A white woman with shoulder length grey hair and dark-framed glasses smiles for the camera. She is wearing a black top and sits before a black background.

Vale Roz Hervey

Beloved by the Australian arts sector, Hervey chose to leave this life with dignity, on her own terms and surrounded…

Richard Watts

Nov 13, 2024

A publicity image for 'Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly)' by Kirli Saunders, part of Merrigong Theatre Company's MERRIGONX program in 2025. A First Nations woman in a red dress stands ankle deep in a pool of water, an arid landscape and blue sky visible behind her.

Merrigong Theatre Company’s 2025 season is its largest ever

A committed development program for local artists, coupled with a range of touring works from around the country, have been…

Richard Watts

Nov 11, 2024

PJ Williams (left) as Estragon and Christopher Samuel Carroll (right) as Vadimir in The Street Theatre's 2024 production of 'Waiting for Godot'. A bearded man leans against another man wearing a hat, ad hugs him. They are sitting on a rock on stage; a park bench is visible behind them.

Waiting for Godot: a deep dive into the human condition

A new production of Beckett’s existential masterpiece is now playing The Street Theatre in Canberra.

Richard Watts

Nov 11, 2024

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