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

Sponsored

A future-focused conversation around disability and inclusion

Featuring keynote speaker S. J. Norman, a First Nations artist of Wiradjuri descent, the full program for Arts Activated 2021…

Sponsored

Wanted: prospective ballet dancers who don’t fit the mould

Auditions for the National Theatre Ballet School are opening soon, and students with a passion for dance from all walks…

News

On the Move: departure from Black Swan, appointment at Bundanon

Keep up to date with the latest movements in the sector.

News

Artist-driven vaccination campaign urges audiences to play a part in pandemic recovery

Victorian audiences are being urged to give the ‘performance of a lifetime’ by getting vaccinated.

Features

Story vs song: juggling the needs of different narrative forms

The narrative needs of theatre and songwriting can differ significantly, so how do you go about fusing them together in…

Sponsored

Dancing across borders: empowering students to become agents of change

A new Master of Dance begins at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2022, offering…

Features

Preparing for a National Arts, Culture and Creativity Plan: Webinar 2

Kate Fielding, CEO of A New Approach, discusses some of the current thinking around the development of a new national…

News

New website coming soon

A brand new ArtsHub will soon be ready for you to peruse, so you’ll notice a small reduction in story…

drag divas at the Darwin Festival
Sponsored

Darwin Festival turns up the heat in 2021

Darwin Festival celebrates First Nations voices, gives young people the microphone, showcases cross-cultural collaboration, and puts on a Top End…

News

Taking art and life to the extremes: The ArtsHubbub episode 15

In the latest episode of our podcast, journalist Jenny Valentish talks about how some people push themselves to extremes and…

1 61 62 63 64 65 229