In the 1960s Taylor wrote on cinema for "Sight and Sound" and the "Monthly Film Bulletin", on the theatre in "Plays and Players", on television for "The Listener" and the "Times Educational Supplement", and on various subjects relating to the arts for "The Times Literary Supplement". From the late 1950s he began writing anonymously on television and theatre for "The Times", and by 1962 he had become the paper's film critic, initially anonymous but later named after the paper abandoned its anonymity rule in January 1967 when William Rees-Mogg became editor. During this era he wrote a number of books including "Anger and After: A Guide to the New British Drama" (1962), titled "The Angry Theatre" in the USA; revised and expanded and published in paperback (1969); "Anatomy of a Television Play" (1962), concerning the "Armchair Theatre" productions "Afternoon of a Nymph" and "The Rose Affair"; "Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear: Some Key Film-Makers of the Sixties" (1964); and "The Art Nouveau Book in Britain" (1966). Subsequently, he wrote "The Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre" (1966), "The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play" (1967), "The Art Dealers" (1969) and "The Hollywood Musical" (1971), as well as British Council monographs on Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and David Storey. He also edited the film criticism of Graham Greene in "The Pleasure Dome" (1972, called "Graham Greene on Film" in the USA).