New play about an old Berliner and her family is consistently interesting and moving

Belatedly, here is a link to Where Do We Go from Here?, the text of director Mike Bradwell’s speech to the Society for Theatre Research, on 19 October at the Swedenborg Hall.

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

Tim Crouch’s new play is a thrilling experiment about the nature of art that stumbles at the final hurdle

Text of the day: “I can.”

New two-hander about petty criminal youth in Ireland packs a strong emotional punch amid its hilarity

Kenneth Branagh’s final show in his West End season is a revival that is slick, but a bit passionless

Perfectly pitched adaptation by Simon Stephens of Mark Haddon’s classic tale is brilliantly staged

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

Text of the day: “One of the most striking manifestations of the banalization of cultural life is the transformation of the intellectual into a uniquely insignificant figure.”

Damon Albarn’s Alice in Wonderland musical has fun graphics, but a banal and didactic storyline — and poor tunes

Text of the day: “I made a.”

New drama about the downfall of Margaret Thatcher is theatrically exciting and immensely enjoyable

Sheer joy and excitement as Lee (‘Billy Elliot’) Hall adapts book about six convent girls, with miraculous results

Text of the day: “Yeah, well we were all enjoying ourselves, weren’t we?”

Pirate Dog is the kind of animal that likes decisive choices: either something is edible, or not.

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

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

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

New drama about urban regeneration and gentrification is powerful, but suffers from being emotionally overheated

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

Text of the day: “While they’re trying to enforce something that’s supposed to make us us more unified, it’s making us feel more segregated.”

Travel seems to be becoming increasingly problematic as I prepare to brave the hazards of a London Transport system crippled by a tube strike.

Text of the day: “You could hear how ‘Keep Your Hand on the Plough’/Later became ‘Keep your eyes on the prize’,/And resulted in ‘Yes we can...’”

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

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

Revival of Caryl Churchill’s dystopian classic is not quite as imaginative as it really could be

Drama about the 1970s and 1980s South American debt crisis is too long, too derivative and too predictable