National Treasure Maxine Peake stars in a brilliantly imagined and terrifically satirical nightmare fantasy

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

It’s not often that I get to say a heartfelt thank you to any newspaper, but I really must acknowledge the good work of the Guardian, and especially its arts website.

Dazzling new work explores the nature of pain and loss with imaginative verve and exhilarating panache

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

Text of the day: “The British are more decent than you think.”

Jack Thorne’s account of local austerity politics is at its best when it pulls down its pants to expose excruciating emotions

Alan Bennett’s latest black comedy, his darkest yet, is about the privatisation of social care, health and death

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

Revival of Julia Pascal’s 2003 play about the intifada is intelligent and powerful, but it’s no easy ride

A short evening of satirical swipes at politicians, plotters and prophets is only fitfully funny and occasionally sharp

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

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

Text of the day: “See this is what you don’t understand about writing, it’s the detail, it’s the human interest, the small intimacies of great souls.”

Anti-naturalistic revival of Brian Friel’s elegiac tribute to the Catholic nobility is fresh but oddly unemotional

Text of the day: “Nobody see you, nobody hear you.”

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

New play about sex and intimacy has the ability to make you cringe in embarrassed self-recognition

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

Text of the day: “This world, this hateful hell that we live in is a prison for powers that be.”

Docudrama about the 1981 Labour Party split is a real treat – but only for politics buffs

Madly ambitious new play about corporate capitalism features a brilliant performance by Jeremy Irons

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

Text of the day: “Mate, yer live on dry land but yer learnt how to swim.”

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

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

History Boy Dominic Cooper triumphs as the Restoration rake Rochester in revival of 1994 biog drama

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

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

Arinzé Kene’s one-man show sparkles with critical know-how, but can’t quite disguise its postmodern thinness