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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An earlier performance of POV, featuring different cast members than the performance reviews. n 11-year-old girl holds a sophisticated camera complete with antennae to broadcast it to screens in the theatre. She is filming a male actor, whose image is visible on a large screen behind them.
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POV review: live cinema refracts real life at Perth Festival

POV is a moving three-hander that features two new, unrehearsed adult actors every night.

The ate Henri Szeps: a fair-skinned older man with thining grey hair and a grey moustache.
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Vale Henri Szeps OAM, remembered for Mother and Son and a storied stage career

Though best know for ABC TV series ‘Mother and Son’, Szeps was also a committed and much-loved stage actor, widely…

A older man wearing a black hat and black jacket holding a laptop and looking at a concave screen depicting a landscape with green shrubs.
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New dedicated gallery celebrates the power of the moving image

Gosford Regional Gallery’s new Moving Image Gallery opens next week, with the premiere of John Power’s ever-changing artwork, ‘Wander and…

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Fighting zombies and pirates and having fun with your friends: Zero Latency VR celebrates its 10th anniversary

From a garage in Melbourne to over 140 venues in 30 countries around the world, Zero Latency VR has come…

'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, the Olivier Award-winning BACK TO THE FUTURE opens in Sydney in September.

Diana Glenn. A smiling middle-aged woman with a brown crop and wearing a short sleeved pink shirt, with an AFTRS lanyard stands in front of green foliage.
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Diana Glenn on the screen business course that’s training ethical, entrepreneurial leaders

After a 30-year acting career, Diana Glenn has changed how she works and thinks thanks to the Master of Arts…

Three shirtless men lie on a floor, their heads together. The floor is scattered with empty baggies, an empty bottle of Buckfast and more, suggesting the aftermath of a wild, drug-fuelled night.
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Kneecap film review: top showcase of the hip hop trio’s talents

Rich Peppiatt’s debut feature is a semi-fictionalised biopic of Belfast rappers Kneecap told in both Irish and English.

Actor Janet Andrewartha smiles for the camera in a publicity photo. She is an Anglo-Australian woman with carefully styled brown hair and wearing a white jacket.
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Vale Janet Andrewartha

The Australian actor, best known for long-running appearances in Australian TV dramas as well as her many stage performances, has…

Developing a broad skillset. Two teenagers sit on park swings in a suburban landscape. One sits with his back to the camera, the other has twisted their swing around to talk to him.
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How developing a broad skillset can help you flourish as a filmmaker

Screenwriter/producer Benji Menday and director Tatjana Hamilton’s short film ‘Bottleneck’ owes much to the skills they gained at AFTRS.

An Indian-Australian man dressed all in black sits on a low stone wall. Behind him in the distance stand the Pyramids, rising up from a desert landscape.
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Stuff the British Stole: Marc Fennell on repatriation, culture and the evolving museum sector

The second series of the successful Australian-Canadian television series lands on the ABC this month. We talk to the creator…

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