CANAL CAFÉ THEATRE

by Clementine Scott - January 22, 2026

MAGA womanhood is a curious paradox, observed with interest across the pond after a third of women under 30 voted for Trump in 2024. How can so many women not only tolerate but actively promote policies that seek to harm them, and how can the general public recognise their grift for what it is?...

by Franco Milazzo - January 21, 2026

Theatre has to work extra hard in January to get people away from cosy duvets and into venues. Thankfully, Dante or Die’s I Do (created by Daphna Attias and Terry O’Donovan) has a doozie of a premise....

by Gary Naylor - January 20, 2026

The story of how an international military effort was cobbled together at the last minute to save Kurdish lives in the afternath of The Gulf War...

by Matthew Paluch - January 19, 2026

Sir Wayne McGregor is a titan of the dance world - and a divisive one. For some he's the next Messiah, for others, the Emperor's new clothes. Normally I'm veering towards the latter, but his 2015 triptych Woolf Works is perhaps his most successful work to date. ...

by Gary Naylor - January 17, 2026

The sad end and glorious high points of the still much-loved cheeky chappie are explored in a worthy two-hander...

by Vikki Jane Vile - January 16, 2026

It’s only four days since the sugar rush of Aaron S. Watkin’s Nutcracker wrapped up a run of forty performances. Frothy and colourful, it is in stark contrast to Akram Khan’s Giselle...

by Amber-Rae Stobbs - January 16, 2026

​Who gets to decide where, or what, ‘home’ is? For many, it’s a place: the town or city you were born in; the destination you’ve always felt drawn to, regardless of the reason; or maybe it’s a building, somewhere you feel your safest. It’s to no one's surprise that when you ask a Geordie where their...

by Cindy Marcolina - January 17, 2026

Life doesn’t stop when 15-year-old Ollie’s mum dies suddenly. Ollie Maddigan’s autobiographical one-man play returns to London after a shower of praise around the country. The Olive Boy tells the story of a young boy attempting to navigate grief and an estranged father against a tsunami of adolescen...

by Clementine Scott - January 16, 2026

Haven’t we all wanted to have a chat with our inner child at some point? And what if the inner child is not quite as faultless and innocent as we may think?...

by Clementine Scott - January 15, 2026

The stage is immediately set for a confrontation. We the audience are looking down the length of a Victorian dining table, lit from beneath, poised perfectly for domestic rows to erupt before the meal is even served....