New play about a deranged Ulster loyalist begins in hilarity and ends with some horrific violence

Text of the day: “Migrants don’t hide their taxes in the Caymen Islands.”

Text of the day: “Must?”

The National Theatre of Scotland bring their zany musical romance to London in a sight-specific ceilidh

New Welsh monologue focuses on the sacrifices demanded from its young female heroine, but what are its politics?

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

New play about the relationship between a Brit and a Pole has some good moments, but remains undernourishing

Text of the day: “We’re supposed to discuss the story.”

Usually, naturalistic stagings are seen as low risk.

New drama about political and religious conflict in a Bradford family is powerfully emotional

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

Text of the day: “I’m happy to roll up my sleeves but who are you fighting?”

The poet laureate’s verbatim play about Brexit sinks into journalistic and untheatrical banality

David Hare’s charming new play is a very English account of a very English institution — Glyndebourne

Text of the day: “I think everybody gets fed up with the way the country’s run if I can be quite honest.”

New twist on the biblical story gets bogged down in a portentous, verbose and overblown production

Text of the day: “You revolutionists,” the other continued, with leisurely self-confidence, “are the slaves of the social convention, which is afraid of you; slaves of it as ...

New American satire about families is bursting with ideas about gender, but only occasionally hits the mark

Family drama about grief gets a surreal twist while exploring human relationships with imaginative flair

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

Text of the day: “While they’re trying to enforce something that’s supposed to make us us more unified, it’s making us feel more segregated.”

DOA: Timely revival of Christopher Hampton’s satire on university intellectuals fails to come alive

Bryony Lavery’s new one about belief in adversity is both uplifting and uniquely shattering

New play about Anonymous hacktivisits is informative, but lacks a distinctly individual voice and texture

Collection of four monologues is free-thinkingly transgressive, politically incorrect and thoroughly delightful

Quote of the day: “My heritage is Britain’s story too.”

One from the archives: the turbulent life and times of a Critic adrift on the choppy waters of British New Writing

Gay epic that spans three historical eras and offers an entertaining evening of laughter and sorrow

Text of the day: “Bad for business.”

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

Not even Anne-Marie Duff can save this epic but obscure new play about the Enclosures

Richard Bean’s timely play about phone hacking and corrupt tabloids is fun but much too long

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

New epic from Jerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth is a breathtaking, if heartless experience

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

Text of the day: “This country doesn't need a constitution, never has, never will.”

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

Text of the day: “You didn’t change the world, you bought it.”

Text of the day: “You have to think English.”

Quote of the day: “I see Cromwell as a vital force for change, but also as a human being intent first on surviving in a harsh world, then on reshaping that world to his will.”

Sheer joy and excitement as Lee (‘Billy Elliot’) Hall adapts book about six convent girls, with miraculous results