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 early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts

Richard Watts's Latest Articles

A scene from Shaun Parker & Company's 'KING' depicting seven shirtless male dancers, some with fists raised threateningly, others pointing accusingly, at an eight dancer who lies prone and protesting on the stage.
Features

Dance-theatre critique of toxic masculinity, 'KING', invited to Belgrade Dance Festival

Shaun Parker and Company’s ‘KING’ tours to Serbia next month, with Australian triple-threat dancer, actor and singer-songwriter Keiynan Lonsdale now…

On The Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments from around the country. The photo depicts a hot air balloon being prepared for flight. Taken before dawn, the focus of the photo is the gas jet of flame generatng the heat required to inflate and fly the balloon.
News

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments from around the country – now published every Tuesday.

Career Advice

So you want my arts job: Librettist

If you possess humility, audacity, originality and passion, becoming a librettist may suit you, says playwright, director, dramaturg and librettist…

Personal’ by Jodee Mundy Collaborations is being supported by the B ritish Council’s Connections Through Culture programme. The image shows a long-haired woman wearing blue overalls that leave her arms bare, standing half crouch on stage. She is lit by a blue light; behind her, a series of eight green digital lines on a black screen blend and curve around her.
Sponsored

Connections Through Culture grants grow collaboration across borders

Eighty-four artistic projects have been supported with over $1.4 million in the latest round of the British Council’s Connections Through…

Rory O'Neill as Panti Bliss in THISISPOPBABY's 'If These Wigs Could Talk'. A 56-year-old drag queen in a blonde wig and grey dress gestures emphatically mid-speech. A neon sign of the word 'Panti' is visible behind her.
Features

Panti Bliss on fighting fascism, changing culture and the art of drag

Rory O’Neill, aka Irish drag star Panti Bliss, discusses career longevity and how standing up to the far right inspired…

Inside NORPA’s vision for a new home, The Joinery. L-R: AD Julian Louis, architect John Choi, Executive Director Libby Lincoln.
News

NORPA launches fundraising campaign to buy and create flood-resistant new Lismore home

The Joinery aims to become a flood-resilient cultural hub for the Northern Rivers region’s performing arts sector.

A scene from Why Not Theatre’s 'Mahabharata' part two, 'Dharma', a Perth Festival 2025 exclusive.
Features

2025 summer festival highlights for your arts diary part 2: February

Our ongoing overview of some of the cultural offerings to have caught our eye continues with this guide to February’s…

On the Move is ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings. A young woman practices slackrope walking.
News

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings.

Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. Guitarist, vocalist and co-founder Stuart Braithwaite is second from the left. The photo shows four middle-aged, fair-skinned men reflected in two large wall-mounted mirrors.
Features

Mogwai’s new album 'The Bad Fire' transforms trauma into art

Stuart Braithwaite, co-founder of post-rock titans Mogwai, reflects on the personal pain that helped shape the Scottish band’s 11th studio…

On the Move is ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments, comings and goings. The photo is a dramatic depiction of a road at night with trails of red light caused by a car's tail lights.
News

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings.

1 19 20 21 22 23 252