Text of the day: “A woman’s screams are nothing unusual these days.”

Quote of the day: “Our working lives will be longer than those of our parents.”

Starry West End outing for George Bernard Shaw favourite fails to overcome the sexism of the original

New drama about dysfunctional family life makes up in Gothic power what it sometimes lacks in subtlety

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

Is the New Labour era ripe for nostalgia?

New comedy about England’s failed bid to host the World Cup is enjoyably satirical, but not very funny

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

New Rupert Murdoch saga by James Graham is too detailed and too overblown to be gripping

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

Text of the day: “I feel cold all the time.”

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

Broadway legend Stockard Channing dominates this family drama, which is fascinating if a bit irresolute

American writer explores issues of belief and redemption during the New Orleans floods

The fraught relationship between Thatcher and the Queen creates hilarious theatrical sparks

Ex-EastEnder Michelle Collins stars in haunting, if slightly flawed, account of belief and loneliness

Delightful two-hander is a comedy about married life and the truth of parenthood that is both funny and wise

Well-meaning new show about cuts to the legal aid budget is rather thin on plot, on relationships and on ideas

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 ...

New play about a family reunion at Christmas is amazingly inventive, but also a bit lacking in emotional depth

I’ve been away for a while so this is a late catch up.

Quote of the month: “Speaking Shakespeare’s verse and prose is an easily learned technique.”

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

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.”

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

Beautiful production of Naomi Wallace’s heartfelt play about racial segregation in the USA

West London new writing venue reopens with an ethically troubling play about another architectural marvel

Quote of the day: “On awakening, if the actor is already in a play, the first thing that they will hear is the sound of low and slightly menacing growling.”

Text of the day: “Then what would be the conditions of your remaining?”

Quote of the day: “The brilliant Bechdel test, which asks that films have at least two women talking to each other about something other than men (or sex, marriage, children, sho...

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 the Arab Spring in Syria gets diverted into a story about mental health and is too complicated as a result

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

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

Patrick Marber’s new play about a struggling non-league football club grows on you with a strange emotional intensity

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

Fierce new drama about slavery in 19th-century Barbados has some enjoyable singing, but the playwriting is uneven

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

I’ve just come back from Vienna, where I attended a theatre conference organized by Contemporary Drama in English, a great bunch of German academics whose knowledge of British pl...

Lucy Kirkwood’s interesting new play is about family and science, but it feels like it’s telling five stories

New drama about two North Korean sisters is vividly staged, but lacks deep emotion and real bite

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