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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

NIDA Open Studios Senior Tutor Louise Birgan. The photograph depicts a fair skinned woman with shoulder length red hair and wearing blue demim overalls over a sleeveless white and blue striped t-shirt. She is sitting on stage at a table, holding a script and is dramatically backlit; rows of theatre seats are visible in the gloom behind her.

NIDA Open Studios: shaping unique artists through rigorous pre-professional training

Teaching artist Louise Birgan explains how NIDA Open Studio Programs prepare students for professional arts training and practice.

Richard Watts

Nov 13, 2025

A passenger jet's contrail draws a diagonal line across a blue sky, intersecting with a puffy cloud that runs vertically from the top to the bottom of the frame. arts sector appointments

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Richard Watts

Nov 11, 2025

Joel Bray Dance's 'Garabari' features in the Blak Out program at Sydney Festival 2026.. Three First Nations people, two male-presenting and one female-presenting, pose dramatically on a smoky, yellow-lit back-lit stage. Sydney Festival 2026.

Sydney Festival 2026 celebrates 50 years of helping shape the city’s culture

Festival Director Kris Nelson discusses his inaugural Sydney Festival program, and looks to the future while celebrating the festival’s legacy.

Richard Watts

Nov 6, 2025

A parkour practioner dressed in basecall cap, yellow hoodie, black pants and white sneakers, leaps into the air in a tunnel which appears to be closed to traffic. Blue-white lights in a row along the tunnels walls receed into the distance, with the leaping body centred in the frame. the photo illustrates ArtsHub's weekly round-up of arts sector appointments.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Richard Watts

Nov 3, 2025

Sydney’s Pinchgut Opera is the first Australian company to utilise Spektrix’s integrated, intuitive CRM platform. Pictured is Pinchgut’s recent production, ‘The Fairy Queen’. A cast in suits and white ball gowns sing, embrace and hold hands on a mirrored stage; a giant mirrorball is projected behind them.

Spektrix: the CRM system that combines ticketing, marketing and fundraising functions

Integrated, intuitive and well supported, Spektrix combines multiple business needs in one powerful database.

Richard Watts

Nov 3, 2025

A 1950s-style car careers down a blurred street at speed, headlights blazing, towards the viewer. The image illustrates ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments, On the move.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Richard Watts

Oct 28, 2025

Company members of 'Gatz' by the American Repertory Theatre; the production can be seen at Adelaide Festival 2026. The photo shows six performers seated and standing around an office table as playing cards rain down around them.

Adelaide Festival 2026: Matthew Lutton reveals his inaugural program

Lutton discusses the creative shift required in programming a festival instead of a theatre company, and why he has not…

Richard Watts

Oct 27, 2025

New performance venue Lango at Footscray Community Arts. An artist's render of the outdoor performance space, showing the stage and the three overlapping architectural shells arcing above it.

New performance venues in Melbourne and Brisbane

A revitalised indie theatre complex in Brisbane’s Petrie Terrace is one of several new performance venues.

Richard Watts

Oct 22, 2025

Boorloo Contemporary at East Perth Power Station (seen here in 2025) returns for Perth Festival 2026. An industrial-looking building lit up by brightly coloured projects, and photographed from the air at night; a large crowd is gathered in the building's expansive courtyard.

Perth Festival 2026 makes the most of its city’s cultural infrastructure shortage

Artistic Director Anna Reece reveals how her second Perth Festival takes over the city’s public and private spaces.

Richard Watts

Oct 22, 2025

An underground stretch of road in a tunnel. The yellow-tinged photograph shows vehicles moving through the tunnel at speed, with details blurred to suggest their rapid movement. The photo illustrates Artshub's On the Move column of arts industry appointments.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Richard Watts

Oct 21, 2025

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