Miniature masterpiece by Duncan Macmillan is emotionally honest, and funny, but also sometimes a bit clichéd

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

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

Text of the day: “That little baby can’t be left alone in this country — this country full of people like Mr Blair.”

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

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

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

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

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

Out of Joint’s latest political play uses blatant agitprop to explore the current plight of the NHS

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

Julia Pascal’s retelling of the Medea myth situates the story in the contemporary struggle of the Kurdish people for their own homeland

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

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

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

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

Katherine Parkinson is a footsore Beckettian in a slender new monologue about struggling middle-class motherhood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thrilling revival of Black Panther Danai Gurira's 2012 play about Christianity and imperialism is a heartfelt cry for justice

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

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

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

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

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

New immersive experience tells its story of people trafficking with considerable power and imagination

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

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

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

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

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

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

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