The Trust was created in 1980 to manage theatre properties in the
central business district of
Perth, Western Australia. This involved bringing the
Perth Concert Hall and
His Majesty's Theatre within a single administrative unit. In February 1984 the now defunct
Playhouse Theatre and National Theatre (the company; later reconstituted as the
Western Australian Theatre Company) were taken over by the trust. The Trust also incorporated and inherited records from preceding bodies, such as the Perth Repertory Club, which had been established in 1919. The Subiaco Arts Centre was also later included in the Trust's scope. Activities of the Trust included the re-opening of a renovated His Majesty's Theatre in 1980, and publications advertising theatre in Perth. From 2015, the Trust began to directly manage His Majesty's Theatre, the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, Perth Concert Hall, and Subiaco Arts Centre, after fifteen years of outsourcing operations to
AEG Ogden. The Trust leases the Goldfields Arts Centre in
Kalgoorlie to the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. On 1 July 2018, the Trust assumed responsibility for the management and activation of the Perth Cultural Centre precinct from the
Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority. ==References==