Mike Bartlett’s latest, inspired by the Edward Snowden affair, relies on a coup de theatre to get out of a stalled plot

Text of the day: “I’m nothing.”

James Graham does it again: his account of the “coughing major” scandal is great entertainment

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

Quote of the day: “There will always be inequalities in society but the magnitude of their effects on health is within our control.”

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

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

Joe Penhall’s new one is a hilarious, often buttock-clenching, comedy about a man giving birth

Quote of the day: “I see Cromwell as a vital force for change, but also as a human being intent first on surviving in a harsh world, then on reshaping that world to his will.”

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

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

New one from Nick Payne explores brain science and female relationships, but is just a bit too superficial

Well-focused revival of Caryl Churchill’s brief dystopic classic is vivid but frankly unexceptional

Alan Bennett’s latest black comedy, his darkest yet, is about the privatisation of social care, health and death

Star cast led by Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Cumming and Jane Horrocks make light work of the Beckett classic

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

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

Text of the day: “Debt is our word for love.”

Latest short from the fab Caryl Churchill is a surprisingly intense and uncomfortable play about death

Naturalistic revival of Caryl Churchill classic follows the trend for realism at the expense of resonance

New play about a deranged Ulster loyalist begins in hilarity and ends with some horrific violence

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

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

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

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

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

German visionary Thomas Ostermeier attacks the bard’s classic play with enormous vigour: amazing

Six Philip Ridley monologues about extreme emotions offer trips to apocalyptic futures, outer space and erotics

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

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

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

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

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

Maxine Peake struggles to make the voice of reason heard in a rather reactionary feminist history play

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

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

Simon Stephens’s new one about loss offers an unusually experimental and immersive experience

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

Mike Bartlett’s new one is a flawed study of generational conflict between baby boomers and their kids

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

New play by Barney Norris is a 70-minute two-hander which is both extremely subtle and emotionally bleak

New docu-drama about the Chinese blood-contamination scandal of 1990s is about corruption and cover-up

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

Text of the day: “But don’t we have a sense of the overview built into us, isn’t that part of being British?”

Provocative one-man show about a stalker and complicit victimhood by stand-up comedian Richard Gadd is darkly exciting