Wilton’s Music Hall reveals 2023 Season
Historic venue Wilton's Music Hall in East London has announced its new season for January to April 2023, including theatre, music, opera, spoken word, and cabaret. First up in January is the return of Buffy Revamped from 9 to 13 January 2023, parodying 90s cult TV hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer - all in just 70 minutes. Its creator, Brendan Murphy, recently won Best Play at the Worldwide Comedy Awards for Friend: The One with Gunther. Charlie and Stan runs from 18 January to 4 February 2023, and is a comedy musical inspired by real life events about the greatest double act that nearly was - Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. The show features a piano score by composer Zoe Rahman, and is part of this year's London Mime Festival. Dead Poets Live returns to Wilton’s for three nights of An Evening of Sylvia Plath from 7 to 9 February 2023, starring the award-winning actor Denise Gough, sixty years on from Sylvia Plath’s death. The UK premiere of new play The City and The Town by Anders Lustgarten takes place from 21 to 25 February 2023. Directed by Dritero Kasapi, the show is billed as a funny and eclectic production that promises to bring a fresh perspective to some of the political divides and problems facing our country today. Multi award-winning ensemble The Faction bring their new distillation of Shakespeare’s fast paced tragedy Macbeth to Wilton's from 14 to 18 February 2023, all performed by two actors. Writer and actor Mark Farrelly is back at Wilton's in March with two shows: his new play Jarman on 7, 9 and 10 March 2023, telling the story of filmmaker, painter, gardener, gay activist, and writer Derek Jarman; and his play about Quentin Crisp, Naked Hope, on 8 and 11 March 2023. Also in March, Oracle Productions presents their new reinvigoration of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comedy melodrama Ruddigore from 14 to 25 March 2023, directed by Peter Benedict. The season concludes with smash-hit Edinburgh Fringe show Paris from Piaf to Pop from 28 March to 1 April 2023. The award winning chanteuse Christine Bovill brings a sexy celebration of the Golden Age of French song and how it evolved during the Swinging Sixties. Music and film during the season includes Buster Keaton's movie Steamboat Bill Jr. with a live piano score, Tom Carradine's Cockney Sing-along, and OneTrackMinds returns to Wilton’s with another selection of writers, thinkers, and musicians, each presenting a thought-provoking story about a transformational piece of music that has made a difference to their life. Currently playing at Wilton's Music Hall is Only an Octave Apart until 22 October - book tickets now. This Christmas at Wilton's is The Wind in the Wilton's - a brand-new adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s much loved The Wind in the Willows by award winning children’s author Piers Torday, from 24 November to 31 December 2022. Book tickets to Buffy Revamped Book tickets to Charlie & Stan Book tickets to The City and the Town