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

Text of the day: “Like when you try and move your big toe independently and you can’t.”

New play about Anonymous hacktivisits is informative, but lacks a distinctly individual voice and texture

Text of the day: “I think everybody gets fed up with the way the country’s run if I can be quite honest.”

Text of the day: “There’s a new wind blowing, gentlemen.”

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

The latest from American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an urban satire that is very bright, but also very lite

New drama about political and religious conflict in a Bradford family is powerfully emotional

Text of the day: “Migrants don’t hide their taxes in the Caymen Islands.”

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s likeable drama is a warm and wise account of two generations of a Punjabi family

Text of the day: “You didn’t change the world, you bought it.”

You’ll need to pay a lot of attention at this new history play about the Father of the Atom Bomb, but it’s worth it

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

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

Text of the day: “Woke with a start with this thought: what if there’s a design fault in the Labour Party?”

Text of the day: “I’m happy to roll up my sleeves but who are you fighting?”

Text of the day: “Bad for business.”

Quote of the day: “My heritage is Britain’s story too.”

Quote of the day: “The bookworm lectures the prostitute, telling her that she should lead a respectable life in which love should reign supreme as the principal driving force of ...

Feminist reading of Ophelia is brilliantly written, but its staging is over-elaborate and its message is questionable

Quote of the day: “As I listened to my mother, I was overwhelmed by her longing to be understood by me.”

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

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.”

New play about the sensation that time is running out is an intelligent and thought-provoking piece

New play about gay life on an American campus makes some excellent points, but its storytelling is too diffuse

Atmospheric revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2008 debut is a powerfully satisfying account of the human heart

Text of the day: “If we learned Arabic — the screws wouldn’t know what the fuck we were talking about— it could be our own private language we can talk about the Jihad righ...

New drama about two North Korean youngsters has some nice touches, but its message of hope is too overtly idealistic

New play about the relationship between a Brit and a Pole has some good moments, but remains undernourishing

Five-star revival of the classic play about love and loss in London’s gay community

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

One new drama, three playwrights, a family that’s hard to love — and even the end of the world!

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

Latest thriller from the Hampstead Theatre sees a reunion of two female childhood friends turn nasty, oh very nasty

New coming-of-age play is not only quirky and funny, but also moving and theatrically thrilling

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

Text of the day: “Kids are so angry these days.”

Even this clear and sympathetic revival of Stoppard’s 1988 Cold War spy thriller can’t quite take off like a rocket