Welcome new play about China is fascinating, but also a bit too complicated and too dense

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?”

Travel back to the 1970s for a political docu-drama that’s high on circumstantial detail, but low on drama

All-star cast — including a gently charismatic Christian Slater — in American classic that celebrates the ideal of the deal

Enjoyably high-definition revival of Caryl Churchill’s 1982 feminist classic gets the National’s big-stage treatment

Richard Bean’s new play about climate change is hilarious and engrossing, but not very politically correct

Striking stage version of Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm’s 2012 film is full of intensity

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.

Long-overdue revival of a wartime Rattigan classic offers an evening that is full of hilarity and insight

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

Caryl Phillips's 1980 Windrush classic is a bit too masculinist and verbose, and poorly staged

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

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

Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning drama vigorously massages the wounded heart of rustbelt America

New drama about a transgender lesbian is not only hugely enjoyable, but also thought-provoking

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

The fraught relationship between Thatcher and the Queen creates hilarious theatrical sparks

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

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

New verbatim play about the terror state is worthy, but completely unenlightening and sadly undramatic

Revival of Githa Sowerby’s 1912 classic of industrial patriarchy is worthy but rather cumbersome and inaccessible

This revival of Errol John’s 1953 Caribbean classic is warmhearted enough, but rather undramatic

Brilliant revival of the 1970s classic about pagan worship and repressed sexuality buzzes with an imaginative physicality

Thrillingly epic account of a defining American institution delights in three superb performances

On the 50th anniversary of 1968 David Edgar looks back at his younger self and explores the results of radical politics

Favourite stage direction: “They start singing ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’, which is interweaved throughout the next section.”

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

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

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

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

David Hare’s latest is set in an alternative reality that is more 2008 than 2018

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

Text of the day: “So does God have a higher god to give his existence meaning?”

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

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

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

Exceptionally strong revival of one of Henrik Ibsen’s more troubling dissections of love, life and politics

Stage version of Andrea Levy’s classic Windrush story is a fun epic that takes ages and ages to warm up

Nicolas Kent leaves the Tricycle with a bang: by staging an two-part epic about the atom bomb