Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

Richard's Latest Articles

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Microphones become instruments in Transducer

New media artist Robin Fox and Speak Percussion’s Eugene Ughetti have collaborated for this rare, immersive performance.

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Circus in the spotlight at Melbourne Festival

Josephine Ridge’s second Melbourne Festival program reflects the culture and values of the city in which it's held.

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Staying alive: preventing suicide in the performing arts

Performance artists are more than twice as likely to commit suicide as the average person. Now the Australian charity Entertainment…

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Youth circus sector launches national manifesto

The manifesto’s key principles and strategies have grown out of a two-year, sector-wide discussion.

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Violin virtuoso appointed as WAAPA’s Head of Strings

A Canadian educator and recording artist has been appointed as Associate Professor, Classical Performance.

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$200 million fund ‘a landmark for arts philanthropy’

The Packer Family Foundation and Crown Resorts Foundation have jointly announced a new National Philanthropic Fund.

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Live music lobby has 'lost faith' in Planning Minister

Music venues and advocates say they have lost faith in Victoria's Planning Minister Matthew Guy for not protecting live music.

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Chinese acrobats join Fruit Flies for Borderville

A celebration of performance and place marks 35 years of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.

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Adelaide audiences set for a Wilde time

A new production of The Importance of Being Earnest is set to delight audiences all over again.

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MTC announces multi-million partnership with Crown Resorts Foundation

The five-year, $2.5-million-dollar partnership has the support of the philanthropic wing of global entertainment group Crown.

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