The 'Like a Londoner' Edit

Cole Escola's gloriously unhinged 80-minute comedy is one of the most talked-about shows to cross the Atlantic in years: anarchic, outrageous, and unlike anything else in the West End right now. Bring a friend. Don't bring anyone easily offended.

The Royal Court couldn't hold it. Now Kimberly Belflower's razor-sharp, ★★★★★ hit transfers to the West End — five young women, one small town, and a score that hits like a gut punch. Directed by Danya Taymor, the talk of Broadway's The Outsiders. The hype, for once, is real.

Joyous, funny, and genuinely moving, Rob Madge's autobiographical hit is back for the final time. This one-person show about a kid who staged Disney parades at home is the kind of theatre you'll be gutted you missed. Don't be that person.

The five-time Tony winner Broadway fans have been waiting for gets its European premiere, not in the West End but up the Northern line at Hampstead Theatre. Get there before everyone else does.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson plays Truman Capote, alone in his New York apartment after the book that cost him his high-society friends. An intimate one-man show at the Menier, the tucked-away Southwark favourite locals have on speed dial.

Callie Khouri reimagines her own iconic road movie as a brand-new musical. Catching it early on The Cut, before it's the show everyone's asking about, is peak Londoner.

A secret girlfriend, a new house and a mum warning it's the first night of ghost month. The Bush is where London's sharpest new writing starts out, and this is the one to book for October.

Shakespeare by candlelight in the Globe's intimate indoor playhouse: murderous plots in the Senate and a city tipping into civil war. One of London's most atmospheric nights out, get this booked in as something to look forward to when those dreary dark evenings close in.

When Gloria passes, the whole family turns up for a traditional Jamaican Nine Night, bringing rum, curry and complaints. A festive-season pick at the Kiln in Kilburn, one of north-west London's best-loved local theatres.