Yes, it’s spooky! Coups de theatre and sudden shocks in trilogy of shorts from television duo

Tom Hiddleston is back! And in excellent form in Jamie Lloyd’s revelatory revival of the 1978 Pinter classic

Bright new monologue about coming of age in the Instagram era really rocks its youthful socks

Text of the day: “Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil.”

Powerful revival of Philip Ridley’s contemporary classic shines bright in the darkness

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

Doug Lucie’s 1984 satire on class and sex stands up quite well a whole generation later

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

New play about the plight of children in a Palestinian town has good moments, but lacks a really compelling story

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

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

Mike Bartlett’s new play about the housing crisis shoots from the hip, but is thin on the page

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

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

Text of the day: “I know that your definition of democracy is quite a selective and unique one and that you’ve been very effective at convincing a large number of people in the...

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

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

Chekhov classic from the team behind the West End hit Summer and Smoke is too middle of the road

Richard Bean’s new play about climate change is hilarious and engrossing, but not very politically correct

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

Pix of the week: sneak preview of The Time Traveler’s Guide to British Theatre.

Revival of Arthur Miller’s classic family drama is very starry but the result is disappointingly uneven

Thought of the day: “The Court is a slightly crazy place.”

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

Fact of the day: the live broadcast on More4 of James Graham’s The Vote (Donmar) on 7 May was seen by more than half a million people, peaking at 555,000 at 9.30pm.

Enjoyably high-definition revival of Caryl Churchill’s 1982 feminist classic gets the National’s big-stage treatment

Quote of the month: “Most of Shakespeare’s heroes and heroines are motherless.”

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

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

Inua Ellams’s new play about fatherhood and masculinity has a vigorously enjoyable global reach

An ambitious four-way exploration of the politics of climate change and global warming remains too cool

Stage version of Andrea Levy’s classic Windrush story is a fun epic that takes ages and ages to warm up

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

Triumphant, if crude, West End transfer of a heartfelt account of a Renaissance woman who has been hidden from history

A powerful monologue about a knife crime is powerfully restaged in a rundown South London shop

New drama about addiction and acting is highly subjective, but also very powerful, informative and moving

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

American play about the use of virtual reality for pain relief has neat visuals, but is a bit thin