Venue: Wilton's Music Hall
Address: Grace's Alley, off Ensign Street, London, Tower Hamlets, E1 8JB, England
Town: London, GB

Wilton's Music Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Shadwell, built as a music hall and now run as a multi-arts performance space in Graces Alley, off Cable Street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is one of very few surviving music halls of the East End of London and retains many original features. Wilton's has been a producing venue since 2004. It presents a diverse and programme including opera, puppetry, classical music, cabaret, dance, and magic. It is a focus for theatrical and East End history, as well as a living theatre, concert hall, public bar and heritage site. The venue underwent an extensive programme of restoration work from 2012 to 2015. The theatre did not close during the building works, instead running an interim arts programme called The Chrysalis Club. The award-winning spaces reopened in October 2015. The theatre is a rare surviving example of the "giant pub hall". In the theatre, a single gallery, on three sides and supported by "barley sugar" cast iron pillars, rises above a large rectangular hall and a high stage with a proscenium arch. In its heyday, a "sun-burner" chandelier of 300 gas jets and 27,000 cut crystals, illuminated a mirrored hall. Today, charring is still visible in the rafters, where the chimney exhausted the heat of this massive device. The hall would have had space for supper tables, a benched area, and promenades around the outside for standing customers. Wilton's was modelled on many other successful London halls of the time, including the second Canterbury Hall (1854) in Lambeth, Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms (1856) in Covent Garden, and Weston's (1857) (later known as 'The Royal Holborn'). Wilton's remains the only surviving example. Wilton's is a unique building, comprising a mid-19th-century grand music hall attached to an 18th-century terrace of three houses and a pub. Originally an alehouse dating from 1743 or earlier, it may well have served the Scandinavian sea captains and wealthy merchants who lived in