TODAY IN LONDON folk mystic Damien Jurado, dark drama troupe Spymonkey, comedians Bob Mills and Paul Tonkinson, and the all-singing, all-chatting, all gag-cracking Abi Roberts feature in the following TW-recommended events…

COMEDY: Stand Up For Bowel Cancer, Shaw Theatre, 4 Dec
It’s about time someone stood up to the world’s third most common form of cancer. Good thing, in that case, Beating Bowel Cancer’s fourteenth annual charity gala has in-house champs Terry Alderton, Bob Mills, John Moloney, Paul Tonkinson and Adam Bloom on its side, is it not? Details and tickets here.

COMEDY: Abi Roberts’ Musical CID, Camden Head, 4 Dec
Tonight’s host, bombastic sing-song comic Abi Roberts, drags in a sofa full of special guests to talk over their listening libraries, guilty pleasures and all. Details and tickets here.

MUSIC: Damien Jurado, St Pancras Old Church, 4 Dec (pictured)
Primarily based all the way over in Seattle, Americana singer-songwriter Damien Jurado brings the fruits of his fine eight-album oeuvre, capped most recently with multi-coloured LP ‘Maraqopa’, to the St Pancras loom. Details and tickets here.

THEATRE: Spymonkey – Cooped, Leicester Square Theatre, 4-7 Dec
A great fave with this particular ThreeWeeks reviewer, this dark romance follows the beautiful and fawn-like Laura du Lay, who takes a job (at a gothic mansion, naturally) as a PA to the strange and aristocratic Forbes Murdston. Details and tickets here.