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

Uncle Archie Roach and Aunty Ruby Hunter have been immortalised in bronze in Fitzroyā€™s Atherton Gardens. The photo shows the two statues standing closely together and smiling.
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Uncle Archie and Aunty Ruby honoured with Fitzroy statues

Bronze statues of the two singer-songwriters were unveiled at the Atherton Gardens on Saturday.

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings. The photo shows a plane in flight, high above the clouds, focusing on the plane's wing at evening and the last glow of sunlight in the darkening sky.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of comings and goings in the Australian arts sector, including new trustees, a new Chair, balletic appointments…

WASO's Principal 3rd Horn Robert Gladstones and Associate Principal Oboe Liz Chee.
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WASO embraces new venues and new programs in its 2025 season

Despite the temporary closure of Perth Concert Hall, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra shows no sign of slowing down in…

Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured are the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of Orpheus & Eurydice.
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ArtsHubā€™s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.

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Queensland Balletā€™s 2025 season dominated by safe works from the companyā€™s past

After funding constraints led to the abrupt resignation of its last Artistic Director in August, Queensland Balletā€™s 2025 season is…

A publicity image for ACT Hub's 2025 season opener, 'Mojo' by English playwright Jez Butterworth. A dark-haired young man with fair skin holds a sword in front of his face. One side of his face is stern and impassive, the other side shows his eye and mouth wide open, as if shouting.
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ACT Hub, Canberraā€™s home of indie theatre, reveals 2025 season

A new festival of Australian works, a contemporary Irish classic, musical theatre and Macbeth feature in the ACT Hubā€™s recently…

'Back to the Future: The Musical', original Broadway cast. A young man leaps into the air while playing an electric guitar, accompanied by a blaze of sparks.
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Back to the Future: The Musical set for 2025 Sydney premiere

Based on the 1985 film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J Fox, the Olivier Award-winning musical opens in…

On the Move is ArtsHub's weekly wrap of Australian arts sector appointments. The photo depicts a line of ballerinas training en pointe, showing their feet and shoes in close-up.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings, including appointments at Sport for Jove, WASO, Geelong Arts Centre…

This weekā€™s arts news and trending topics. The image depicts a plastic orange megaphone against an orange background.
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This weekā€™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.

Eileen Kramer in the forthcoming Sydney Festival production 'AFTERWORLD'. A 110-year-old woman holds her hands to her veiled face.
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Vale Eileen Kramer

The iconic Australian dancer and choreographer has died aged 110.

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