Star cast explores the reality of evil in rather overblown revival of Bryony Lavery’s contemporary classic

Favourite stage direction: “Heather is a play written for two actors, A and B.”

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

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

Comedy about Labour Party history is starry, but politically reactionary and tediously overblown

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.”

Islands, a new show about offshore tax havens, is luridly absurdist, but the end result is deeply tedious

New play about Africa’s deadliest conflict is more of a heroic failure than a successful drama

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

Text of the day: “Alright.”

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

Yes, it’s spooky! Coups de theatre and sudden shocks in trilogy of shorts from television duo

The Royal Court’s international season continues with savage Ukrainian play about women and war

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

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

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

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Text of the day: “Because something is not what it is said to be, Ma’am, does not mean it is a fake.”

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

Text of the day: “Secrecy is the curse of our British system.”

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

Text of the day: “Do you ever wake up in the night and be frightened of dying?”

Superbly plotted family drama beautifully explores the relationships between the personal and political

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

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

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

Tim Crouch’s latest is a masterly enquiry into the art of performance, and into the extremes of grief

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

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

Quote of the day: “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, ...

Award-heavy American play about the Oslo Accords is informative, moving and highly entertaining

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

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

Simon McBurney journeys up the Amazon into the heart of darkness — and finds light and enlightenment

Quote of the day: “There are awkward tensions between Euripides and Ben Power; occasionally the original text seems more of a victim of his rewriting than a willing collaborator ...

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

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

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

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