Nina Raine’s follow-up to her very big hit Consent is emotionally intelligent and often funny but rarely deep

Travel back to the 1970s for a political docu-drama that’s high on circumstantial detail, but low on drama

Ken Urban’s intense and revelatory two-hander is powerfully performed by Clifford Samuel and Douglas Booth

Text of the day: “Everything here is beautiful.”

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

The death of David Bowie provokes the Critic to take a trip down the motorways and side alleys of memory

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

How do you take a story told from the point of view of a horse, turn it into a successful stage play, and then see the result messed up by Steven Spielberg?

Text of the day: “So I made a decision.”

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

Nicholas Hytner’s promenade production is a triumphant argument for the relevance of political Shakespeare

Latest episode in this venue’s examination of the culture of fear is surreal, silly and oddly satisfying

Unsuccessful West End outing for Dawn King’s intriguing and evocative 2011 dystopian chiller

Play by Indian playwright about the bitter conflict in Kashmir is difficult, heavy, but ultimately rewarding as well

David Hare’s latest is set in an alternative reality that is more 2008 than 2018

Text of the day: “My mum wasn’t always a twat.”

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

Text of the day: “The theft of an article of clothing is excusable.”

The Critic releases a howl of anguish as he goes against the will of the people

Mike Bartlett explores Englishness with enormous metaphoric zeal — and only a touch of preposterousness

Roy Williams’s powerful account of boxing in black culture packs a real punch in a thrilling production

Peter Gill’s new play about the end of the First World War is a very long, hard slog

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

Howard Brenton’s First World War play is interesting, but not always completely compelling or convincing

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

Text of the day: “That place needs Nigerians from the diaspora with skills to help rebuild the country.”

Text of the day: “England!”

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

Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop’s anti-war classic is revived with more reverence than imagination

Very very very feeble: Martin McDonagh’s latest is poorly written, self-plagiarizing and lacks imagination

Laura Wade’s return to the stage is a bright satire about marriage and nostalgic fantasy

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

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

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

New play about the Northern Irish prison is lite on politics, but strong on Motown music