Downton’s Elizabeth McGovern stars in a new play about Greece that is both intelligent and very enjoyable

The RSC’s epic two-evening adaptation of Robert Harris’s Cicero books reaches the West End, but gets bogged down in detail

New short play about sex and shame is partly a campaign tool and partly a plea for openness and understanding

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

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

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

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

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

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

Excellent revival of Martin McDonagh classic sizzles with irresistible linguistic and theatrical games

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

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

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

New version of the Muriel Spark classic stars the wonderful Lia Williams, but lacks the story’s full dramatic punch

Latest short from the fab Caryl Churchill is a surprisingly intense and uncomfortable play about death

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.”

Biographical play about soul legend Marvin Gaye focuses on his troubled home life rather than his songs

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

Text of the day: “Can we just say we’re completely pro sex.”

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

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

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

Best twitter campaign: The Book of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

Favourite stage direction: “Both appear more interested in the porn than in each other.”

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

Text of the day: “White folks ain’t the only ones got a right to eat good.”

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