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 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. 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

News

Custom-built circus centre to open in Brisbane in 2021

Flipside’s uniquely designed new building will be a home for community and social circus training while also accessible to the…

Career Advice

Six essential videos to help you get your art online

Produced in partnership with Creative Victoria, our Artists Essential Toolkit video series covers the fundamentals of getting your work online…

Features

Why we’ll need great art more than ever after COVID-19

From around the country, artists and arts workers reflect on why the post-pandemic world will need art more than ever.

News

Anger in NSW as media receive funding outcomes ahead of applicants

Outcomes of the already-delayed funding round were communicated to applicants by the media, or by texts from colleagues, instead of…

News

AMPAG to close after 21 years

The Australian Major Performing Arts Group will wind up in September, making way for new methods of arts advocacy for…

Sponsored

Transition degree helping older students upskill now available online

WAAPA’s Bachelor of Performing Arts Practice Transition major is designed to prepare the future leaders of the performing arts industry…

Sponsored

Why virtual Open Days are more accessible than ever

Geographic distance and long travel times are no longer a challenge for prospective students seeking to learn more about courses…

News

South Australia slowly returns to performance as usual

The first mainstage production in Adelaide post-COVID is preparing to open at the newly refurbished Her Majesty’s Theatre in September,…

Features

New dementia program piloted by Canberra Symphony

The pilot program of Music and Memory combines the individualised experience of other dementia programs with a live concert, ensuring…

Features

First opera sung entirely in Noongar language commissioned in WA

A new commission will retell a story of sibling rivalry that’s been shared for generations on Noongar boodja in south-west…

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