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

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Don Parties On

MTC: David Williamson’s sequel to his most famous play reunites his major characters some 40 years later.

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Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

SYDNEY FESTIVAL: Cornish company Kneehigh Theatre return to Australia with their acclaimed production THE RED SHOES.

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Hume unveils her second Sydney Festival program

SYDNEY FESTIVAL: John Malkovich, Paul Kelly, Philip Glass, and Emmylou Harris are among the hundreds of artists performing in Sydney…

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My Name is Rachel Corrie

FORTYFIVE DOWNSTAIRS: The controversial play about a peace activist killed on the Gaza Strip in 2003 is coming to Melbourne.

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A Krakouer of a show

DECKCHAIR THEATRE: Reg Cribb’s multi-award-winning story about the footballing Krakouer brothers returns for a national tour.

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Shining a light on Vivid Sydney

OPINION: When is an arts festival not an arts festival? When it’s a giant advertising campaign.

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Working with geological memory

17th BIENNALE OF SYDNEY: Artist Mikala Dwyer has turned to stone for inspiration.

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Sydney Fringe announces inaugural director

A new Sydney Fringe Festival will be held in the inner west later this year.

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Tears soak the sticky carpet

The recent closure of live music venues in Melbourne and Sydney threaten the future of the Australian music industry.

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National Play Festival furore

The 2010 National Play Festival’s publicity material has been decried as sexist and demeaning to women.

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