Andrzej Łukowski
@mrlukowski.bsky.social
Polish Brummie, Time Out London theatre editor and kids person
in the nicest possible way, there are an awful lot of americans on bluesky and there should be a little switch to filter them out
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
December 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
in the nicest possible way, there are an awful lot of americans on bluesky and there should be a little switch to filter them out
me at 5.45am, after two hours of fending off requests to open presents
December 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
me at 5.45am, after two hours of fending off requests to open presents
and my very final show of the year was Operation Ouch: Quest for the Jurassic Fart! – one of the most profound and formally inventive works of theatre in human history (80 minutes of two celebrity doctors talking about farting, quite good fun) www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Operation Ouch: Quest for the Jurassic Fart!, Royal Festival Hall review: Celebrity physicians Dr Chris and Dr Xand are back with a fart-centric new live show
Dr Chris and Dr Xand take a break from medicine for an exploration of the grosser aspects of dinosaur life
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December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
and my very final show of the year was Operation Ouch: Quest for the Jurassic Fart! – one of the most profound and formally inventive works of theatre in human history (80 minutes of two celebrity doctors talking about farting, quite good fun) www.timeout.com/london/theat...
a last couple of reviews for ’25! Some people seemed to really go for the RSC’s Twelfth Night but I just found it far too much, like there are a billion things going on in in this play, you can’t amp them all up www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Twelfth Night, Barbican Centre review: The RSC’s luxury ‘Twelfth Night’ is sumptuous but overstuffed
Luxurient as a three-bird roast and just as overstuffed, the RSC’s transferring production of Twelfth Night is Shakespeare so rich it could give you indigestion
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December 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
a last couple of reviews for ’25! Some people seemed to really go for the RSC’s Twelfth Night but I just found it far too much, like there are a billion things going on in in this play, you can’t amp them all up www.timeout.com/london/theat...
it’s Time Out’s ten best theatre shows of 2025, yes, we ‘went there’ on double Jamie Lloyd www.timeout.com/london/news/...
The best London theatre show of 2025
Our pick of the 10 best shows to open in the West End (and beyond) this year.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
it’s Time Out’s ten best theatre shows of 2025, yes, we ‘went there’ on double Jamie Lloyd www.timeout.com/london/news/...
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after all the hype Oh, Mary! turns out to be an incredibly dated ’70s-style comedy (with a great cast) www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Oh, Mary!, Trafalgar Theatre review: A great cast salvages this bafflingly overhyped ’70s-style Broadway comedy
It would be a mistake to say the humour in Cole Escola’s massive hit Broadway comedy has been lost in translation to the West End: there was a lot of laughter w
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December 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
after all the hype Oh, Mary! turns out to be an incredibly dated ’70s-style comedy (with a great cast) www.timeout.com/london/theat...
after all the hype Oh, Mary! turns out to be an incredibly dated ’70s-style comedy (with a great cast) www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Oh, Mary!, Trafalgar Theatre review: A great cast salvages this bafflingly overhyped ’70s-style Broadway comedy
It would be a mistake to say the humour in Cole Escola’s massive hit Broadway comedy has been lost in translation to the West End: there was a lot of laughter w
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December 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
after all the hype Oh, Mary! turns out to be an incredibly dated ’70s-style comedy (with a great cast) www.timeout.com/london/theat...
I do think on the whole song lyrics are diminished by writing them down as they are a different thing from written poetry
but
‘is a dream a lie if it don’t come true/or is it something worse?’
but
‘is a dream a lie if it don’t come true/or is it something worse?’
Name your fav song lyric.
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I do think on the whole song lyrics are diminished by writing them down as they are a different thing from written poetry
but
‘is a dream a lie if it don’t come true/or is it something worse?’
but
‘is a dream a lie if it don’t come true/or is it something worse?’
When We are Married at the Donmar is really, really good fun www.timeout.com/london/theat...
When We are Married, Donmar Warehouse review: massively fun revival of the Priestley comedy
Hugely fun revival of JB Priestley’s gently subversive comedy about a trio of conceited couples brought down to earth
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December 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
When We are Married at the Donmar is really, really good fun www.timeout.com/london/theat...
no review until tomorrow night etc but the wildest thing about Oh, Mary! is that there’s a incredibly random Belle and Sebastian song in it
December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
no review until tomorrow night etc but the wildest thing about Oh, Mary! is that there’s a incredibly random Belle and Sebastian song in it
oh also I though Paranormal Activity in the West End was great – not exactly profound but rock solid horror storytelling and v sophisticated in terms of illusions etc, hard to think you could do This Sort Of Thing much better www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Review: ‘Paranormal Activity’, Ambassadors Theatre
This West End stage outing for the horror franchise is shockingly good.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
oh also I though Paranormal Activity in the West End was great – not exactly profound but rock solid horror storytelling and v sophisticated in terms of illusions etc, hard to think you could do This Sort Of Thing much better www.timeout.com/london/news/...
I feel like Christmas Day at the Almeida is a good version of a show that could be great – but it’s brave and weird and has an amazing cast; plus – it’s Christmas! www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Christmas Day, Almeida Theatre review: idiosyncratic dark comedy about a London Jewish family ‘celebrating’ Christmas Day
The much feted Sam Grabiner’s second play – following last year’s Olivier-winning Boys on the Verge of Tears – is a dark, dark comedy about a jaw-droppingly dys
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December 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I feel like Christmas Day at the Almeida is a good version of a show that could be great – but it’s brave and weird and has an amazing cast; plus – it’s Christmas! www.timeout.com/london/theat...
it has now been a month since secret cinema said they were announcing their new show the next day
December 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
it has now been a month since secret cinema said they were announcing their new show the next day
I truly don’t mind Steve Rogers coming back! If anything I'd rather he was a major character than he’s killed off immediately just to prove something!
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I truly don’t mind Steve Rogers coming back! If anything I'd rather he was a major character than he’s killed off immediately just to prove something!
this is obviously absurd but I guess a totally straight version would also be mental in 2025? just so long as they send Boxer to the knackers
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
this is obviously absurd but I guess a totally straight version would also be mental in 2025? just so long as they send Boxer to the knackers
I loved the Bridge’s Into the Woods! I think there’s an argument that it’s not reinventing the wheel, but if so it’s just a really amazing example of a wheel www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Review: ‘Into the Woods’, Bridge Theatre
Jordan Fein’s revival of the fairytale-filled Sondheim classic is pure magic
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December 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I loved the Bridge’s Into the Woods! I think there’s an argument that it’s not reinventing the wheel, but if so it’s just a really amazing example of a wheel www.timeout.com/london/news/...
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
when I was very young I saw Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo on Broadway with Robin Williams in it and because I am now very old I have seen its UK premiere 14 years later and I'd say this was better www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Young Vic review: Last minute change of lead Kathryn Hunter is superb in Rajiv Joseph’s nightmarish drama about occupied Iraq
Hunter and Arinzé Kene star in the long-awaited UK premiere of this surreal post-Iraq War Broadway smash
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December 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
when I was very young I saw Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo on Broadway with Robin Williams in it and because I am now very old I have seen its UK premiere 14 years later and I'd say this was better www.timeout.com/london/theat...
hmm – odd/sad insta comment from Denise Gough about what must surely have been the People, Places and Things revival
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
hmm – odd/sad insta comment from Denise Gough about what must surely have been the People, Places and Things revival
oh only just caught up with news that former Time Outer Helen Shaw is the new New York Times theatre (theater?) critic, which is frankly vg news
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
oh only just caught up with news that former Time Outer Helen Shaw is the new New York Times theatre (theater?) critic, which is frankly vg news
just finished The City and The City by China Miéville, which I thought was great, a sort of pulp detective novel with a brilliantly audacious premise, ie it’s set in two cities in two different countries, that occupy the same physical space
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
just finished The City and The City by China Miéville, which I thought was great, a sort of pulp detective novel with a brilliantly audacious premise, ie it’s set in two cities in two different countries, that occupy the same physical space
wondered what all the honking outside my hotel was and it’s a seemingly endless stream of motorcycling santas driving through the streets of krakow
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
wondered what all the honking outside my hotel was and it’s a seemingly endless stream of motorcycling santas driving through the streets of krakow
why is the hot norwegian chef apparently making dozens of toasties when the ambassador only wanted one
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
why is the hot norwegian chef apparently making dozens of toasties when the ambassador only wanted one
in Krakow and my hotel has charger sockets that mean there was actually no need for me to have brought an adaptor, obviously varies from country to country but genuinely astonishing how much the experience of travelling abroad has changed in my lifetime
December 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
in Krakow and my hotel has charger sockets that mean there was actually no need for me to have brought an adaptor, obviously varies from country to country but genuinely astonishing how much the experience of travelling abroad has changed in my lifetime
as you would expect from the NYT, the best thing about this article is the 100% absence of any bants
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December 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
as you would expect from the NYT, the best thing about this article is the 100% absence of any bants