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

Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz (right) in rehearsal with the Circa ensemble. A shaven-headed man in black-framed glasses and black clothes gesticulates as he explains something to a group of shirtless men and women in dark green dresses in a rehearsal studio.
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Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz receives ISPA Distinguished Artist Award

Lifschitz joins the likes of Taylor Mac, Robert Lepage, Laurie Anderson and Pina Bausch in receiving the accolade from the…

On the Move is artsHub's weekly summary of Australian arts sector appointments and resignations. The photo is taken from the perspective of a car's driver on a freeway, speeding towards the dawn.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

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

Darwin Symphony Orchestra will tour the Northern Territory in its 2025 season. The photo looks down on the orchestra, arrayed around a podium as a middle-aged man in a suit conducts. The photo is taken from above and to the side, so that we can see the strings section, a harpist, percussionist and other Orchestra members.
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Darwin Symphony Orchestra to tour Territory-wide in 2025

The DSO’s 2025 season will see Jonathan Tooby’s last hurrah as Artistic Director/Chief Conductor, but not before the Orchestra undertakes…

Samuel Gaskin in the 2025 Midsumma Festival production 'HONÅŒUR'. The New Zealand born musician poses dramatically, hands raised and face painted, against a colourful backdrop.
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Midsumma and Mardi Gras programs ensure a queer summer ahead

Asexual comedy, drag kings, lesbian drama, trans theatre and in-your-face gay cabaret feature in the programs of Sydney and Melbourne’s…

Uncle Archie Roach and Aunty Ruby Hunter have been immortalised in bronze in Fitzroy’s Atherton Gardens. The photo shows the two statues standing closely together and smiling.
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Uncle Archie and Aunty Ruby honoured with Fitzroy statues

Bronze statues of the two singer-songwriters were unveiled at the Atherton Gardens on Saturday.

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings. The photo shows a plane in flight, high above the clouds, focusing on the plane's wing at evening and the last glow of sunlight in the darkening sky.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of comings and goings in the Australian arts sector, including new trustees, a new Chair, balletic appointments…

WASO's Principal 3rd Horn Robert Gladstones and Associate Principal Oboe Liz Chee.
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WASO embraces new venues and new programs in its 2025 season

Despite the temporary closure of Perth Concert Hall, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra shows no sign of slowing down in…

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Queensland Ballet’s 2025 season dominated by safe works from the company’s past

After funding constraints led to the abrupt resignation of its last Artistic Director in August, Queensland Ballet’s 2025 season is…

A publicity image for ACT Hub's 2025 season opener, 'Mojo' by English playwright Jez Butterworth. A dark-haired young man with fair skin holds a sword in front of his face. One side of his face is stern and impassive, the other side shows his eye and mouth wide open, as if shouting.
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ACT Hub, Canberra’s home of indie theatre, reveals 2025 season

A new festival of Australian works, a contemporary Irish classic, musical theatre and Macbeth feature in the ACT Hub’s recently…

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly wrap of Australian arts sector appointments. The photo depicts a line of ballerinas training en pointe, showing their feet and shoes in close-up.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings, including appointments at Sport for Jove, WASO, Geelong Arts Centre…

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