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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

On the move: ArtsHub's weekly round-up of arts sector comings and goings. An aerial view of waves breaking against the shore, the white foam in stark contrast to dark rocks.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings, including changes at Bleach Festival and ILBIJERRI.

Richard Watts

Oct 14, 2024

The hero image for Corrugated Iron Youth Arts' 40th anniversary program, Futures Collide: a photograph of a teenaged boy in sunglasses and 1980s fashion, overlayed with fluorescent pink and green.

Past and present collide as Corrugated Iron Youth Arts celebrates 40 years

Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, or ‘Corro’ as it is often known, celebrates its 40th anniversary throughout October.

Richard Watts

Oct 11, 2024

A young man with brown floppy hair, Arthur Hull.

Performance review: Flop, Trades Hall

Celebrating the blood, sweat and talent invested in Broadway’s least successful musicals, Arthur Hull more than delivers the goods in…

Richard Watts

Oct 11, 2024

This week’s arts news and trending topics

Our weekly wrap of arts news and reviews from around the country, and the stories you may have missed.

Richard Watts

Oct 11, 2024

A publicity image for 'Troy', one of seven productions in Malthouse Theatre's 2025 season. A multi-racial cast of seven, including men in skirts and women in tunics reminiscent of ancient Greece, link hands as they struggle across a dramatically lit and smoky battlefield.

Malthouse Theatre eschews naturalism in its 2025 season

Addressing the cost of living and leaning into the theatrical, the Malthouse’s new season promises the epic and the intimate…

Richard Watts

Oct 9, 2024

Dancers Juan Carlos Osma and Alexa Tuzil in a publicity image for West Australian Ballet's 2025 world premiere production, 'Butterfly Effect', choreographed by Alice Topp. A dark-haired, fair-skinned woman wraps her legs around the body of a dark-skinned, partially dressed male dancer. They stand in a field of long grass against an olive-green background.

West Australian Ballet’s 2025 season features world premieres and classic works

A world premiere, full-length work by Australian choreographer Alice Topp is one of the highlights of the West Australian Ballet’s…

Richard Watts

Oct 9, 2024

One Fell Swoop Circus has welcomed the news that the Perry Street, Collingwood training facility will remain a home for circus and physical theatre artists. Two circus artists stand on a blue stage, holding overlapping white ropes. A third circus artist balances on the ropes where they are intertwined.

Circus training centre to open up for sector

One Fell Swoop and Na Djinang among those circus companies looking forward to the appointment of a new site operator.

Richard Watts

Oct 8, 2024

Stuart Maunder, Artistic Director of Victorian Opera.

Sondheim’s Follies and Boojum! revival feature in Victorian Opera 2025 season

Artistic Director Stuart Maunder discusses his 2025 season, which includes chamber opera, a lavish musical and a new opera for…

Richard Watts

Oct 7, 2024

On the move is ArtsHub's weekly wrap of arts sector appointments and resignations. A black and white photo depicts a shirtless young man splashing through water as he runs along the beach.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

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

Richard Watts

Oct 7, 2024

This week's arts news headlines and most read ArtsHub stories. A bearded man with glasses and wearing headphones shouts or sings beside a wall: the wall's peeling pain looks like a cartoon speech bubble.

This week’s arts news and trending topics

Our weekly wrap of arts news and reviews and the stories you may have missed.

Richard Watts

Oct 4, 2024

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