Powerful drama about asylum-seekers is humanistic and well imagined, but it lacks a strong enough ending

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

Revival of Sean O’Casey’s modern classic shows its continued relevance, but is a bit meticulously sombre

David Haig’s documentary drama about the weather on the eve of D-Day is fascinating, but a bit flawed

A new play that surfs over social problems in Cornwall with an uneasy mix of integrity and silliness

New comedy by a debut writer about a West Indian wake is lively, full of spirits, but a bit undercooked

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

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

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is one of my favourite books and I am a sucker for film versions of the story.

Favourite stage direction: “Lights go down on Japan.”

Philip Ridley’s play explores teen fantasy, imaginative storytelling and youthful emotions

Text of the day: “And do the migrants not understand Europe is fucked?”

New Martin McDonagh play about 1960s Britain stars Reece Shearsmith and David Morrissey, but lacks heart and sense

Quote of the day: “I realised that my whole life had been lived in the shadow of the nuclear bomb.”

Classic of 1990s in-yer-face theatre revived in an energetic if messy immersive production

Text of the day: “It used to be fearless, provocative, fun — where’s the fun gone from the Street, it’s boring, fuck it. ”

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

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s new opera thrillingly explores love and life and death in a royal court

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

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

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

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

Quote of the day: “I, like my characters, am a twentysomething and have grown up in a world of plenty, unscathed by war or recession, a world defined by consumerist boom.”

The Revolution and Resistance season kicks off in style at the Royal Court with this wonderful piece of absurdist genius

Anna Maxwell Martin stars in Nina Raine's compelling play about rape, justice and forgiveness

Yippie! American play deconstructs Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon, and then some!

Nina Raine’s new play performs a powerful autopsy on the bustle and emergency of hospital life

The classic TV serial takes to the stage like a politician to a pay rise, but lags a bit behind reality

Brilliant new thriller about Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea is both epic and moving

Dennis Kelly’s remarkable new monologue is a hilarious, terrifying — and terrific — experience

Simon Stephens works his verbal magic on a slim but strong story set in a place of alienation

Joe DiPietro’s cult hit is enjoyable enough, but rather predictable in both form and content

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

New play about refugee-camp life in Calais is a gruelling docu-drama, powerful but oh so middle class!