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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On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments and resignations. Photo depicts a parkour jumper mid-leap, framed above a shipping container against a grey sky.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

A long-serving Artistic Director steps down, new Board appointments, and a Chief Conductor’s tenure is extended in this week’s wrap…

The light installation 'Karla Bidi' will run for the duration of Perth Festival 2025. Six people stand with their backs to the camera beneath a starry sky, on the banks of the Swan River. A bright beam of light rises from the riverbank into the sky before them.
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Responding to and celebrating place: Perth Festival’s 2025 program revealed

Anna Reece discusses some of the highlights of her first Perth Festival as Artistic Director.

Brink Productions' 'Looking for Alibrandi' is sure to resonate with STCSA audiences. A young woman in a school uniform sits beside an older woman and a white cloth-covered table. Tomatoes sit on the table in front of them and rain down around them.
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State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2025 season: from Parliament House to Broadway

Mitchell Butel’s final season as STCSA Artistic Director ranges from black comedy to heartfelt First Nations storytelling, with a dollop…

Stephen Rea in 'Krapp's Last Tape', one of many international productions in the 2025 Adelaide Festival. The lugubrious, lined, character-rich face of Irish actor Stephen Rea, who sits at a table bearing an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape recorder.
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Adelaide Festival 2025 brings the world to South Australia

An array of international acts join First Nations artists and Australian companies for the 40th Adelaide Festival.

Arts sector appointments are covered every week in ArtsHub's On the Move column. A low-angle photo of a skateboarder skating past autumn leaves on a quiet, tree-lined street.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Arts leaders move on from a peak body, a major gallery and the Adelaide Festival Centre in this week’s round-up…

Composite: Spanish conductor Conductor Lucía Marín
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So you want my arts job: Conductor

If you are intuitive, passionate, generous and able to understand a piece of music as a whole, perhaps conducting is…

'A Modern Murder' at Sydney Festival is sure to be a 2025 program highlight. A blonde woman in a short-sleeved red dress and red hat smiles flirtatiously from the dock in an old-fashioned courtroom. A swarm of photographers and radio-men crowd around her.
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From true crime to post-colonialism: Sydney Festival launches its 2025 season

Olivia Ansell’s final Sydney Festival as Director grapples with big questions and has factored the cost of living crisis into…

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WAAPA to benefit from $30 million philanthropic partnership

A $30 million, 25-year partnership between Edith Cowan University and the Minderoo Foundation will help outfit WAAPA’s performance spaces at…

The Patrick White Literary Award for 2024 has been award to Melbourne poet Π.O. Photo depicts a grey-hair Greek-Australian man of advancing age looking into the camera impassively.
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Greek-Australian poet Π.O. wins 2024 Patrick White Literary Award

A champion of performance poetry and spoken word as well as his fellow poets, Π.O. has been honoured for his…

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments. The photo shows a runner's feet and legs, with his feet caught in mid-air as he runs.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

ArtsHub's weekly round-up of comings and goings in the Australian arts sector.

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