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

The Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Creative Australia.
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Governance advisory firm appointed to review Creative Australia’s 2026 Venice Biennale process

Questions are already being asked as to why the terms of reference exclude the decision to cancel Sabsabi and Dagostino’s…

An earlier iteration of 'Space-Out Competition' in Seoul. The free, participatory game comes to Melbourne for RISING 2025.
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RISING launches full festival program for June 2025

Melbourne’s winter festival RISING is “proudly challenging and uncompromisingly inclusive,” according to its co-Artistic Directors.

seagull soaring through a blue sky in front of fluffy white clouds. arts sector appointments.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments and departures

ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of who’s going where and who’s leaving what role in the Australian arts sector.

A scene from Forced Entertainment's 'Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare' at Adelaide Festival 2025.
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If all the world’s a stage, why can’t the stage be a Shakespearean table top?

Forced Entertainment’s Tim Etchells describes the inspiration for and the development of the company’s ‘Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare’.

Geraldine Quinn's 'Bastard Joy' at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025. A publicity image for the show: Quinn, a fair-skinned woman with swept-back, shoulder-length auburn hair, stares dramatically at the camera. She wears an ornate ruffled dress in hot pink, and large, half-moon pink earings to match.
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2025 summer festival highlights for your arts diary part 3: March

A hand-picked guide to some of the most intriguing cultural events on offer around the country in March 2025.

Emily Imeson, ‘Floating QLD Waratah turned Flame Tree Season,’ 2021 (detail), recycled timber, acrylic on canvas, thread, batik earth-stained cotton, 210 x 240cm. Courtesy of the artist. A photo of a forest-themed artwork, including a curved piece of wood which helps frame the image.
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Strong like the forest: how a regional gallery’s ecosystem connects artists and community

Guest curator Christine Willcocks discusses the environmental and creative themes behind the Grafton Regional Gallery exhibition, ‘True North: From the…

Reuben Kaye is one of the visiting artists headlining the inaugural Darwin Comedy Festival. The orange-lit photo shows Kaye in profile, looking to the left and laughing manically. His face is immaculately made up and his hair is quiffed and coifed. Darwin Comedy Festival.

Celebrating laughter and growing local audiences at the Darwin Comedy Festival

The first-ever Darwin Comedy Festival opens this week; ArtsHub learns about the program and why the Festival was established.

ArtsHub's sweekly On the Move column is an overview of Australian arts sector comings and goings. The photo depicts a person skipping rope at the beach, with the focus being their bare feet as they skip, the sand and the skipping rope itself.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of arts sector comings and goings across industries and artforms and from across the country.

Sebastian Geilings, Yilin Kong and Patrick O'Luanaigh from ADT's 'A Quiet Language'.
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Turning 60 in style: Australian Dance Theatre leaps from the stage to the gallery wall

AD Daniel Riley describes the birth of ADT and an accompanying exhibition documenting the company’s six decades of dance-making.

Irish actor Stephen Rea in Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape' at Adelaide Festival 2025. The photograph depicts Rea, an older fair-skinned man with an unruly shock of greying hair, hunched over an old reel-to-reel tape deck to which he listens anxiously.
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Theatre review: Krapp’s Last Tape with Stephen Rea, Adelaide Festival 2025

A masterful actor performs Beckett’s masterpiece about the inevitable march of time: an unmissable production.

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