A new venue named Cabaret will open in February 2023 as part of the Wales Millennium Centre's new transformation. The new venue within the Cardiff Bay theatre will host events every weekend showcasing "the very best" of comedy, drag, burlesque and more.
The opening season features collaborations with Caradiff Cabaret Club, Glitter Cymru, and The Queer Emporium with hopes to make the space safe for everyone to enjoy. Cwm Rag, a gaggle of LGBT+ Welsh drag performers, will celebrate and interrogate what it means to be Queer and Welsh in their bilingual show while translator-turned-comedian Steffan Alun will treat Cardiff’s audiences to Comedy Translates – a bilingual comedy night featuring some of the Welsh language scene’s best acts.
Wales Millennium Centre’s own work will also take to the stage. Luke Hereford’s heart-warming show Grandmother’s Closet returns following an award-winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe, and Queerway – produced by Leeway Productions with support from RCT Theatres and Wales Millennium Centre – will debut telling life stories of LGBT+ people from Rhondda Cynon Taf.
