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

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

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

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

Emma Rice’s version of Angela Carter’s last novel is a beautifully bizarre celebration of alternative families

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Text of the day: “But it was not easy being a coward.”

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

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

Pirate Dog is very sensitive to mood: he’s an empathetic beast, and he’s taught me a lot.

New play about a forgotten First World War poet stages both the passion of youth and the pity of war

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

Theatre Uncut’s streamed film about social media and the woke generation is educational, but unexceptional

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

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

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

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

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

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

Caridad Svich’s excellent adaptation of Isabel Allende’s classic novel is an epic and emotional evocation of South American history

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!

Terry Johnson’s new play is a deeply felt and typically witty look at the cinematographer Jack Cardiff

Mix of family drama and sci-fi fable switches too much in tone to really, like, delight

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

National Treasure Maxine Peake stars in a brilliantly imagined and terrifically satirical nightmare fantasy

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

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

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

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