Cabaret Noir

Songs of Weimar and Vienna with a modern bite. Table seating, champagne service and a velvet curtain that means business.

Theater am Kanal is a narrow 1910s playhouse on the Leopoldstadt bank of the Danube Canal, with little round tables where the stalls used to be and red lamps that dim one by one as the overture starts. The singer arrives through the audience, not from the wings. The band is a trio: piano, double bass and a clarinet that does most of the talking.

The programme moves from bitter Berlin numbers to Viennese songs about money, love and the landlord, with new lyrics sharpened for this winter. Expect wit rather than smut, and at least one song you will hum on the U2 home.

Bar tables are €35. Front tables, €55, come with a half bottle of Austrian sparkling wine for two.