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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

Kala Gare in MTC's original stage musical 'My Brilliant Career' which returns for an encore in the company's 2026 season. The photo shows a fair haired and fair skinned young woman in period dress posing dramatically beneath a glittering chandelier. Her head is tiled back and her eyes closed as she sings, her right arm thrusts upward and her left arm swings back behind her.

My Brilliant Career: MTC announces encore season of original musical in 2026

The critically acclaimed musical theatre adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career returns to the MTC in 2026.

Richard Watts

Aug 20, 2025

ANAM students performing at Abbotsford Convent. The atmospheric photograph, taken in a historic venue with picturesque windows and a stage visible in the background, shows a seated audience listening to a group of six musicians, including strings, woodwind and a piano; one of the students stands behind a computer screen, suggesting the presence of electronics in the score being performed.

Ghosts of Abbotsford Convent exorcised by poetic and musical collaboration

Poet Nam Le and former ANAM resident artist, pianist Anna Goldsworthy, join ANAM students to explore the Convent’s ‘fraught history’.

Richard Watts

Aug 19, 2025

A moody photograph, taken at a low angle, showing three jogging women in the early morning. The women are silhouetted against the cool blue sky and their shadows stretch behind them on the road as they run towards the soon-to-rise sun which lightens the background of the photo. The image illustrates ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Richard Watts

Aug 19, 2025

Actor Andrew McFarlane in a promotion image for David Williamson's The Social Ladder', which opens Ensemble Theatre's 2026 season. The actor, a dapper, tanned man with grey hair, wears a suit, shirt and cravat, and is posing before an ornate gilded picture frame against a bright red background.

Ensemble Theatre announces its 2026 season

Ten productions have been programmed for Ensemble Theatres 2026 season, including four new Australian productions, one of them by David…

Richard Watts

Aug 14, 2025

A promotional photograph of the late Noel Tovey AM from the 2014 season of 'Little Black Bastard', presented by ILBIJERRI and Arts House. The photo shows an elder but still vigorous Aboriginal man with grey hair; he poses regally and is looking gravely down at the camera.

Vale Uncle Noel Tovey AM: Indigenous champion of gay rights

Tovey is remembered for his spirit, courage and creativity, and as a courageous elder with a sly wit.

Richard Watts

Aug 12, 2025

A dynamic photograph of a b-girl breaking, illustrating ArtsHub's weekly On the Move, column, which summarises recent arts sector appointments from across Australia.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Richard Watts

Aug 12, 2025

The 2025 Telstra Art Award winner, Gaypalani Waṉambi, 'Burwu, blossom', 2025, at the 2025 Telstra NATSIAA. The front of the artwork, showing the intricately etched and painted honey bees and stringybark blossoms are shown; the second part of the photograph shows the found road signs which comprise the canvas for the work.

Gaypalani Waṉambi wins the Telstra Art Award at the 2025 Telstra NATSIAA

The Yirrkala artist won the $100,000 award for a monumental etched metal work, now showing at MAGNT in Darwin.

Richard Watts

Aug 8, 2025

Promotional image for Opera Australia's 2026 production of 'La Bohème'. The photo shows a young woman in white walking away from a young man, who clings to her left hand as if imploting her to stay.

Beleaguered Opera Australia announces its 2026 season

Next year marks the national opera company’s 70th anniversary, and follows a tumultuous 12 months for Opera Australia.

Richard Watts

Aug 6, 2025

A publicity image for The Street Theatre's production of 'The Chosen Vessel', a new Aboriginal Gothic play by Dylan Van Den Berg. The photo depicts an Aboriginal woman staring at the camera; a white man stands ominously behind her, disappearing into the shadows.

What is Aboriginal Gothic? Ask The Chosen Vessel playwright Dylan Van Den Berg

Palawa playwright Dylan Van Den Berg and Kalkadoon director Abbie-lee Lewis discuss the emerging theatrical genre, Aboriginal Gothic.

Richard Watts

Aug 5, 2025

Two male breakdancers perform on a high building, the cityscape visible behind them. The two young men are photographed in joint handstands; with their legs extended, their feet touching as if supporting one another. The photo illustrates Artshub's On the move column, a weekly summary of Australian arts sector appointments.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Richard Watts

Aug 4, 2025

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