New sci-fi story about suburban perfection and robotics lacks the necessary human touch

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

Magnificent futuristic fantasy is a political fable that examines both the monarchy and the media

One-woman debut short about a mixed-race teen finding her voice gets a place in my heart

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

Text of the day: “If it wasn’t for people like us, this place would still be a shithole.”

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

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

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

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

Text of the day: “Imagine a city of people who were once like us.”

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.”

Text of the day: “I don’t think an authentic voice needs to be learned because we all have one, however buried or bizarre.”

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

Crimp and Mitchell’s latest venture into the world of contemporary opera is a dazzling triumph of sound and words

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

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

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

Gore Vidal’s plodding presidential drama: Martin Shaw and Maureen Lipman fail to heat up chilly political thriller

Text of the day: “One of the book’s main objectives is to confront the powerful mood of conformism that afflicts contemporary cultural and intellectual life.”

Text of the day: “I tried to change the world, I failed, but I will transform Paddington station.”

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

In this inspiring and exhilarating new play Yorkshire hikers reclaim the English countryside — and their identities

Gary Owen’s latest monologue drama deals with fathers and sons — and the violence of masculinity

Resonant indictment of war from leading French-language playwright testifies to both hope and terror

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

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

James Graham does it again: his account of the “coughing major” scandal is great entertainment

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

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

Trilogy of shorts about women in the Arab Spring is celebratory, but too long and too depressing

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

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

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