This time, I have taken a critical look at about 75 years of British theatre history.

New play about anti-semitism is viscerally powerful, and raises some troubling issues about insidious racism

Calling all drama teachers and students: let’s bring theatre history alive!

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

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

Autobiography meets meta-theatre in Athena Stevens’s punchy account of how an airline trashed her wheelchair

Simon Stephens and Juliet Stevenson create a perfectly beautiful and haunting installation for our times

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

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

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

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

In the absence of live theatre during lockdown the Critic is obliged to review his own domestic daily life — with puzzling results

New adaptation of Albert Camus’s classic by Neil Bartlett is wonderfully restrained yet powerfully relevant

Amazing and ambitious epic from debbie tucker green compares the experience of black people in the US and the UK

Promenade performance of a timely but unexciting new verbatim play about the NHS fails to thrive

Waiting for Godot meets Exodus in powerfully antagonistic American drama which argues that Black Lives Matter

New debut play is a heartfelt account of the black lesbian experience — party on!

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

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

Bad stuff and change in a time of pandemic: a derivative lockdown poem

Can the stranglehold of naturalism and social realism in British theatre ever be broken?

New touring play from Eclipse is a wonderfully complex and emotionally powerful account of race and Empire

Gloriously surreal monologue about everyday anxieties in extraordinary circumstances: welcome back the glittering dark!

New monologue about one man’s mental breakdown and his obsession with foxes is strong but too long

Toff antics, nostalgic politics and troubled masculinity in Laura Wade’s exceptionally pertinent new play

New monologue about rage, racism and national identity is magnificent in its fury and perception: grreeaatt!

Nick Payne’s new devised piece explores gender — but what does a man really know about being a woman?

Nina Raine’s new play performs a powerful autopsy on the bustle and emergency of hospital life

A festival of monologue responses to the Black Lives Matter campaign is personal, political and so powerful

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

How can theatre respond to the racist shit that’s going down?

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

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

One from the archives: theatre criticism in an age of marketing

Text of the day: “That’s what politics is, Diana.”

From the archives: the Critic takes an angry look at London’s West End theatre

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

Yesterday, I took a break from my sunny local park and turned a room in my house into the Finborough fringe theatre.

One woman’s journey to explore the legacy of the slave trade is brilliantly personal and provocative

New docudrama about the 1915 Armenian genocide is a powerful denunciation of Turkey’s denial of these events

Powerful revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1986 modern classic comes alive in all its noisy, vulgar and transcendent glory

The problem with creating theatre in an era of lockdown is that the constraints of working online tend towards a uniformity of creativity.