Description:
This uniquely atmospheric venue is now the home to some of the most exciting, and blazingly original, theatre in Britain
- The Telegraph
Wilton's is the world's oldest surviving grand music hall. Here, in the 1850s and 60s, classical overtures, opera and operetta, choral, contemporary and folk songs were enormously popular, long before "old time music hall" evolved. John Wilton built this theatre behind his public house, The Prince of Denmark in 1858, in Graces Alley, E1. The pub was locally famous as the first to use mahogany fittings. Wilton's was described as the Wilton's Music Hall"Handsomest Room in Town".