Ace! Revival of Joe Penhall’s brilliantly written contemporary classic is superbly staged and brilliantly performed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Debut play about the parliamentary ruling class is timely, and amusingly perceptive, but ultimately unsatisfying

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

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

We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times.

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

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

Joe Penhall’s triumphant critique of the music biz explores psychology as well as beats — it really rocks

Some performances are legendary, and have a resonance whose ripples still affect us.

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

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

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

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

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

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