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

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The late Ryuichi Sakamoto will perform in a virtual performance at Asia TOPA 2025. A white-haired Japanese man in dark glasses and a black shirt poses for the camera with his raised hands held to his lips.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto performs from beyond the grave for Asia TOPA 2025

Melbourne’s Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts returns in February 2025, with the first two program highlights revealed today.

So you want my arts job? Indie theatre director Cassandra Fumi smiles at the camera. She is fair-skinned and has wavy, shoulder-length blonde-brown hair and wears a black jumper
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So you want my arts job: Director, Independent Theatre

If you love collaborative storytelling that helps communities form around a common goal, directing indie theatre productions may be the…

On the move: ArtsHub's weekly round-up of arts sector comings and goings. An aerial view of waves breaking against the shore, the white foam in stark contrast to dark rocks.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings, including changes at Bleach Festival and ILBIJERRI.

The hero image for Corrugated Iron Youth Arts' 40th anniversary program, Futures Collide: a photograph of a teenaged boy in sunglasses and 1980s fashion, overlayed with fluorescent pink and green.
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Past and present collide as Corrugated Iron Youth Arts celebrates 40 years

Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, or ‘Corro’ as it is often known, celebrates its 40th anniversary throughout October.

A young man with brown floppy hair, Arthur Hull.
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Performance review: Flop, Trades Hall

Celebrating the blood, sweat and talent invested in Broadway’s least successful musicals, Arthur Hull more than delivers the goods in…

This week’s arts news and trending topics. A black and white photograph of a man in profile whispering into the ear of a woman who faces the camera.
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This week’s arts news and trending topics

Our weekly wrap of arts news and reviews from around the country, and the stories you may have missed.

A publicity image for 'Troy', one of seven productions in Malthouse Theatre's 2025 season. A multi-racial cast of seven, including men in skirts and women in tunics reminiscent of ancient Greece, link hands as they struggle across a dramatically lit and smoky battlefield.
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Malthouse Theatre eschews naturalism in its 2025 season

Addressing the cost of living and leaning into the theatrical, the Malthouse’s new season promises the epic and the intimate…

Dancers Juan Carlos Osma and Alexa Tuzil in a publicity image for West Australian Ballet's 2025 world premiere production, 'Butterfly Effect', choreographed by Alice Topp. A dark-haired, fair-skinned woman wraps her legs around the body of a dark-skinned, partially dressed male dancer. They stand in a field of long grass against an olive-green background.
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West Australian Ballet’s 2025 season features world premieres and classic works

A world premiere, full-length work by Australian choreographer Alice Topp is one of the highlights of the West Australian Ballet’s…

One Fell Swoop Circus has welcomed the news that the Perry Street, Collingwood training facility will remain a home for circus and physical theatre artists. Two circus artists stand on a blue stage, holding overlapping white ropes. A third circus artist balances on the ropes where they are intertwined.
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Circus training centre to open up for sector

One Fell Swoop and Na Djinang among those circus companies looking forward to the appointment of a new site operator.

Stuart Maunder, Artistic Director of Victorian Opera.
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Sondheim’s Follies and Boojum! revival feature in Victorian Opera 2025 season

Artistic Director Stuart Maunder discusses his 2025 season, which includes chamber opera, a lavish musical and a new opera for…

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