Wilton's Music Hall
Wilton's Music Hall
Wilton’s mission is to sustain this East End building and its unique spirit with a programme of extraordinary theatre and music made for all of London and everyone with a curious imagination.
Wilton’s is of international significance as it is the only surviving Grand Music Hall in the world. With its uneven wooden flooring, elegantly twisting barley sugar columns and artfully distressed walls, our Grade II* listed building is one of the most evocative, magical and visceral performing arts venues in the UK. Wilton’s currently programmes and produces exceptional music and theatre events for which we are now renowned. It was built by John Wilton in 1858 and was a centre of variety and entertainment for the East End. Then the first ever Ethiopian working men’s club in the UK (1920s), a refuge for anti-fascists in the nearby Battle of Cable St (1936), an air raid shelter, a film set (Sherlock Holmes, Chaplin) and concert venue for legendary artists such as Kate Bush and Bryan Ferry.
Wilton’s is a charity and receives no public subsidy and relies on the income of ticket and bar sales, wedding and film hires and funds it raises through the generosity of trusts and foundations, individuals and corporates.
If you are looking at this page hopefully you are thinking about supporting our building, our people and our legacy. Thank you for your help. The donations we receive power everything we do.
If you are looking at this page hopefully you are thinking about supporting our building, our people and our legacy. Thank you for your help. The donations we receive power everything we do.
Wilton’s is a nice place to visit. It does well-curated, intimate theatre and cabaret. But there’s more to this fantastically atmospheric Victorian music hall. Wilton’s is a palimpsest: there’s a story about the shifting tides of London in its ravaged brickwork and wonky floors. It’s a survivor, and proof that the spirit of London can be encapsulated in bricks and mortar. It also proves that Londoners will always want places to come together.
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