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19 Jan 2024

Richard Watts

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Listen up: we’ve got some arts news for you! Photo: Franco Antonio Giovanella/Unsplash.

From ticket sales during the cost of living crises to funding woes and new theatre initiatives, here’s our regular Friday wrap of the week’s most-read stories.

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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