Life is a cabaret WA old chum

The inaugural Perth International Cabaret Festival will be held in June 2021.

21 Oct 2020 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Perth Cabaret Collective has welcomed the news of 2021’s Perth International Cabaret Festival. Image via Facebook.

Despite training a new cohort of cabaret and music theatre artists every year at WAAPA, Perth currently lacks a dedicated cabaret festival.

That is about to change, with the inaugural Perth International Cabaret Festival (PICF) to be held at His Majesty’s Theatre from 19-27 June 2021.

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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