It's a gripping title, innit? Writer and director Drew Davies has got a bold and gutsy play in Chav Scum Kills God that is all mouth and in your face. Rather like the main character, Chaverston Robert Scumthorpe Jr, who wakes up in the afterlife, meets his dad who is a power-hungry middle-aged rent boy for the evil dead then is coerced into looking for the big guy upstairs in order to blow him......

Shining Man stages revivals of lesser known modern classics and with ecent successes Harper Regan and On The Shore of the Wide World at no less than the National Theatre mean Simon Stephens is modern classic material. One Minute from 2003 is brought back with uncanny resonance in the light of the Madeleine McCann case and post-7th July bombings London. An unreliable witness says she saw the girl - but she didn't, she just......

A couple of years ago Chris Roberts - who will be leading our 4th Londonist Walk on Friday evening - (and who is no relation to the Grantham Roberts clan) co-wrote True Blue: A musical about Margaret Thatcher in a bid to come to terms with his own, and his nation’s, past and more importantly setting Geoffrey Howe and others to music. Who better then, to send along as guest reviewer to a spanking......