The longest-running play in world history is in good shape, despite the lackluster and mechanical cast

Richard Bean’s new play about climate change is hilarious and engrossing, but not very politically correct

Text of the day: “Then what would be the conditions of your remaining?”

This revival of Errol John’s 1953 Caribbean classic is warmhearted enough, but rather undramatic

The death of David Bowie provokes the Critic to take a trip down the motorways and side alleys of memory

Nicolas Kent leaves the Tricycle with a bang: by staging an two-part epic about the atom bomb

Exceptionally strong revival of one of Henrik Ibsen’s more troubling dissections of love, life and politics

Favourite stage direction: “They start singing ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’, which is interweaved throughout the next section.”

The Critic releases a howl of anguish as he goes against the will of the people

Enjoyably high-definition revival of Caryl Churchill’s 1982 feminist classic gets the National’s big-stage treatment

Text of the day: “So does God have a higher god to give his existence meaning?”

Censorship appears to be simple, but is actually quite complicated.

David Hare’s latest is set in an alternative reality that is more 2008 than 2018

Pix of the week: sneak preview of The Time Traveler’s Guide to British Theatre.

More overviews of British new writing from the In-Yer-Face Theatre archive.

Text of the day: “Let’s face it, Ursula thought, despite a host of regulations, they were making it up as they went along.”

Travel back to the 1970s for a political docu-drama that’s high on circumstantial detail, but low on drama

Stage version of Andrea Levy’s classic Windrush story is a fun epic that takes ages and ages to warm up

In the Brexit era, this site-specific revival of Agatha Christie’s 1953 courtroom drama works like a treat

New drama about the downfall of Margaret Thatcher is theatrically exciting and immensely enjoyable

An ambitious four-way exploration of the politics of climate change and global warming remains too cool

Powerful revival of Philip Ridley’s contemporary classic shines bright in the darkness

The fraught relationship between Thatcher and the Queen creates hilarious theatrical sparks

New verbatim play about the terror state is worthy, but completely unenlightening and sadly undramatic

Fascinating and fast-moving docudrama about post-invasion southern Iraq has a big hole in its centre

Mike Bartlett explores Englishness with enormous metaphoric zeal — and only a touch of preposterousness

Revival of Githa Sowerby’s 1912 classic of industrial patriarchy is worthy but rather cumbersome and inaccessible

Thrillingly epic account of a defining American institution delights in three superb performances

Quote of the month: “Most of Shakespeare’s heroes and heroines are motherless.”

Text of the day: “That’s the hardest thing.”

Welcome new play about China is fascinating, but also a bit too complicated and too dense

This time, I have time travelled with my companion Lia Ghilardi, crossing four hundred years of British theatre history.

Fact of the day: the live broadcast on More4 of James Graham’s The Vote (Donmar) on 7 May was seen by more than half a million people, peaking at 555,000 at 9.30pm.

All-star cast — including a gently charismatic Christian Slater — in American classic that celebrates the ideal of the deal

Explore the work of a handful of British theatre’s brightest and most exciting writing talents

Decade-hopping epic about marriage and sexual identity joyfully celebrates the art of theatre

Inua Ellams’s new play about fatherhood and masculinity has a vigorously enjoyable global reach

A powerful monologue about a knife crime is powerfully restaged in a rundown South London shop

New drama about a transgender lesbian is not only hugely enjoyable, but also thought-provoking

Victorian female pugilism drama: thoroughly heartfelt, highly original, very theatrical and completely timely