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

A scene from 'Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show' at Brisbane Festival, featuring an array of performers dressed in colourful designs posing on a catwalk, surrounded by seated audience members.
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Festival review: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show, South Bank Piazza

This semi-autobiographical stage show exploring the French fashion designer’s life and career is visually splendid but, ironically, lacking in theatrical…

A publicity image for Belvoir's 2025 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. A dark-haired woman in a purple jacket, a red-haired woman in a period dress, and a dark-haired young man in a ruffled shirt and frock coat look towards the camera. Golden glitter showers down around them.
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Grief, hilarity, classics and culture are celebrated in Belvoir’s 2025 season

Artistic Director Eamon Flack has launched a season of nine plays for Belvoir’s 2025 subscription season.

A large ship sails under a bridge at sunset. arts sector appointments.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings.

Four figures dressed like cowboys emerge from a yellow-lit haze. A woman kneels in the foreground over a backpack. This is a scene from the 2024 production of NORPA's 'Wildskin'. Photo: Kurt Petersen.
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From proscenium arch to place-based: reimagining Wildskin

Adapting an existing work for an entirely new setting is not without its challenges, but overcoming such challenges leads to…

Diana Glenn. A smiling middle-aged woman with a brown crop and wearing a short sleeved pink shirt, with an AFTRS lanyard stands in front of green foliage.
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Diana Glenn on the screen business course that’s training ethical, entrepreneurial leaders

After a 30-year acting career, Diana Glenn has changed how she works and thinks thanks to the Master of Arts…

The Sydney Opera House Shop could soon be stocking your work thanks to the annual Uncovered retail program. The photo depicts a woman walking towards the door of the Sydney Opera House Shop, through which a range of retail objects can be glimpsed.
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Creativity uncovered: bespoke Australian designs sought for Sydney Opera House Shop

Applications are now open for Sydney Opera House’s annual Uncovered program: an opportunity for local artisans and designers to connect…

A render of Laak Boorndap, the new urban garden being built as part of the Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation.
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New urban garden, Laak Boorndap, revealed for Melbourne Arts Precinct

Situated on an elevated deck, the 18,000 square metres of parkland will provide a quick, accessible and safe connection from…

A carefully staged and rather camp photograph of two men dressed in white and lounging on a white couch. A statue of a golden lion sits beside one of the men, who are the stars of Sydney Festival's 'Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera'.
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What happens in Vegas comes to Sydney Festival: Siegfried & Roy opera set for world premiere

A new chamber opera about Las Vegas magicians Siegfried and Roy has been announced as the centrepiece production of the…

A muscular person, naked from the waist up and facing away from the camera, dances on a reflective floor. He wears a long white dress which swirls out around him and contrasts dramatically with the black background and dark, polished floor. The image illustrates On the Move, a weekly column detailing Australian arts sector appointments and resignations.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings.

Dancer/choreographer Luke Murphy, looking sweaty and slightly dishevelled, holds an old-fashioned alarm clock up to one ear, in a scene from the dance-theatre production Volcano. He wears a dark suit jacket over a grey coat, and stands in front of a background of dingy wallpaper to which sheets of blank paper are pinned.
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Festival review: Volcano, Brisbane Powerhouse

On a glassed-in stage, two men reenact their memories in an endless loop – but what if those memories aren’t…

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