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 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. 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

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How to survive festival fatigue

Festivals are the extreme sport of the arts - intense but exhausting. Some of Australia’s most experienced consumers of culture…

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An Act of Now

Anouk van Dijk’s first work as Chunky Move’s new Artistic Director is a compelling and visceral exploration of social interaction.

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How do your finances affect your arts practice?

We’re all familiar with the myth of the starving artist, but would you make art differently if you had more…

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How to work the room

You see them at parties and opening nights, those well-connected people who seem to be able to speak with everyone…

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Valtari

EMI: The sixth studio album from Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós is the group’s most introspective and ambient release to…

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The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge

NEXT WAVE: A thoughtful, playful, evocative and transformative live art experience centred around and upon Melbourne’s Yarra River.

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Justin Hamilton: The Goodbye Guy

MICF: Stand-up comedians are rarely more meta, or better, than Justin Hamilton, who farewells his festival career to date with…

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The Importance of Being Earnest

MTC: Wildean wit and wordplay coupled with Geoffrey Rush’s superb turn as Lady Bracknell ensure Simon Phillips’ last production for…

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Return to Earth

MTC: A story of returning, reconnecting and belonging, Lally Katz’s hybrid of melodrama and magic realism never quite finds its…

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Holding the Man

STATE THEATRE COMPANY OF SA: Based on the best-selling book by Timothy Conigrave, Tommy Murphy's play is a heartfelt, hilarious…

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