Quote of the day: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.”

Text of the day: “They were bewitched by this tiny man.”

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

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

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

The Bush’s Stewart Pringle digs deeply and beautifully into the emotions of two lonely Yorkshire people

Yippie! American play deconstructs Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon, and then some!

Comedy about Labour Party history is starry, but politically reactionary and tediously overblown

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

Text of the day: “Let’s face it, Ursula thought, despite a host of regulations, they were making it up as they went along.”

A superior “me and my mates” flatshare drama that brilliantly mixes comedy and horror

Link to a short review of Robert Holman’s Making Noise Quietly at the Donmar Warehouse

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

The final episode of Florian Zeller’s domestic trilogy is powerfully, even melodramatically, effective

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

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

Docudrama about the 1981 Labour Party split is a real treat – but only for politics buffs

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...

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

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

Two-hander about migration to southern Italy and debt collection in northern England is a stunning piece of political theatre

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

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

Magnificent revival of David Greig’s 1990s visionary classic is timely, tough and tender, brutal and brilliant

Chaff fest: the most controversial play of the year is almost certainly also going to be the worst

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

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

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

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s television hit returns to the stage, still rocking with laughter and coolness

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

Quote of the day: “I remember someone saying — and something like this will always be a provocation — that all plays are essentially moral because there are no plays that act...