Wilton’s Music Hall unveils 2027 season featuring Keith Allen in Not the Benny Hill Show comedy and new play by Tabby Lamb

Wilton’s Music Hall has revealed the line-up of shows making up its spring 2027 season.

Alongside a new comedy from Jonathan Maitland starring Keith Allen, there will be a new play by Tabby Lamb and a new piece by Elizabeth Godber.

Allen will lead the dark comedy Not the Benny Hill Show from 6 to 17 April. Directed by Dugland Bruce Lockhart, Maitland’s piece examines cancel culture and asks what happens when the world stops laughing along and whether a legacy can survive the verdict of later generations. It is presented by Canvey Rock Productions Ltd, in association with Cahoots Theatre Company.

The Law of Mayhem by Lamb (20 to 24 April) explores racing driver and RAF pilot Roberta Cowell and ship’s doctor Michael Dillon, who met in 1949 and became two pioneering figures in British transgender history. Using circus as a physical language, the production explores their lives and the remarkable relationship that brought them together before ultimately driving them apart.

Elsewhere, the season opens with Tom Carradine and his six‑piece band, The China Plates, with Carradine’s Cockney Sing‑along (11 January). Then Private Eye journalist Richard Brooks will discuss his book Post Mortem: The Post Office Horizon IT Scandal (12 January). More spoken word continues as Will Adamsdale and Fuel present Will Adamsdale: AI, AI, Oh… (Or How I Wrote a Hit Sitcom with ChatGPT But We’re Not Talking Now) (13 January).

Opera della Lunna will perform a semi-staged presentation of The Arcadians (14 to 15 January), while Arbeau Productions presents Paradise Lost (19 January), performed by William Spaulding and directed by Olivier Award winner Keith Warner. Stewart Lee’s dark comedy inspired by The Owl and the Pussycat will feature Sally Homer and John Mackay with live improvised musical accompaniment (21 January). A variety gala for Cabaret vs Cancer will take place on 22 January.

David Alnwick will combine Victorian illusion with Charles Dickens’ classic ghost story in The Signalman, presented by James Seabright (23 January). Next, the John Godber Company will present Wolf Country (25 to 27 January), Elizabeth Godber’s comedy about friendship, fear and the supernatural, featuring a country music score and directed by Jane Thornton. January concludes with the Fourth Choir’s presentation of James Joyce’s The Dead (28 to 30 January).

In February, expect The Lucky Dog Picturehouse celebrating the centenary of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (4 to 5 February), plus Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill Jr (6 February). A production of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility will be staged by the Production Garden (8 to 9 February), followed by musical hall night Tiddley Pom (10 February), presented by Kit Green Productions and hosted by Ida Barr with musical director Carradine.

The Brian Clemens Big Band featuring Francesca Confortini returns with 20th Century Jukebox (11 to 12 February), before the Production Garden, in association with Cube Room Productions, presents Eric and Ern (16 to 20 February).

The Tiger Lillies perform A Macbeth Song (23 February to 6 March), joining forces with La Perla 29 to retell Shakespeare’s tragedy in a unique concert performance, direct by Oriol Broggi and featuring new songs by Martyn Jacques.

A screening of the 1920 silent film Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde will be accompanied by FB Pocket Orchestra (8 March), presented by FB Media and Media Ltd. This is followed by storytelling and music show OneTrackMinds (9 March), Steve Pretty (and Friends) in On the Origin of the Pieces (10 March), and improvised murder mystery CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation (11 March).

Lee Martin for Gag Reflex Management then presents Tape Face: 20 (12 to 13 March). Charles Court Opera returns with its production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado (16 to 20 March), followed by The Actress (22 to 23 March), presented by The Long Lane Theatre Company and inspired by the true story of the first women to appear on the English public stage.

Mark Farrelly presents Kenneth Williams: A Celebration (24 to 25 March), performed by Mark Farrelly, Russell Davies and Madeline Smith.

The Lucky Dog Picturehouse closes the month with Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman (30 March) and the silent version of Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail (31 March), both accompanied by live scores, including a world-premiere score for Blackmail.

April opens with the return of Tricity Vogue’s All Girl Swing Band (1 April), followed by Ida Barr: Slipped Disco (2 April), a new production from Kit Green Productions blending music hall, hip hop and R&B.

The season concludes with Fake Escape’s Don’t You Forget About Me (26 April), a nostalgic one-person show inspired by The Breakfast Club, and mind reader Alex McAleer in Reads the Room (27 April). The Lucky Dog Picturehouse returns with Harold Lloyd’s Speedy (28 April) and Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (29 April), both accompanied by live scores, before The Production Garden closes the spring season with Cocktails with Joyce Grenfell (30 April).