Andrzej Łukowski
@mrlukowski.bsky.social
Polish Brummie, Time Out London theatre editor and kids person
loved the thirstiness of the Hugh Bonneville audience but Shadowlands is ultimately too light on actual sex, it puts CS Lewis on an improbably chaste pedestal that clearly oversimplifies him www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Shadowlands, Aldwych Theatre review: Hugh Bonneville is a charming CS Lewis in this sweet but simplistic period romance
I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever heard proper walk-on applause in this country before. But the Shadowlands audience erupted as soon as star Hugh Bonneville wal
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February 13, 2026 at 11:06 PM
loved the thirstiness of the Hugh Bonneville audience but Shadowlands is ultimately too light on actual sex, it puts CS Lewis on an improbably chaste pedestal that clearly oversimplifies him www.timeout.com/london/theat...
eldest has just read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath and then I explained what happened in Boneland to him and he looked at me like I was mad
February 13, 2026 at 9:08 PM
eldest has just read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath and then I explained what happened in Boneland to him and he looked at me like I was mad
I normally start aggressively doubting myself when I like something that everyone else hates, but I think in this instance the NT’s Man and Boy is simply about as ‘me’ coded as theatre gets
five stars from me for Anthony Lau’s wild ride free jazz Rattigan, with an incredible performance from Ben Daniels www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Man and Boy, National Theatre Dorfman review: An extraordinary performance from Ben Daniels powers this revelatory take on Terence Rattigan’s finance drama
Man and Boy is never going to displace The Deep Blue Sea or The Browning Version or even French without Tears as the quintessential Terence Rattigan work. But t
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February 12, 2026 at 10:49 AM
I normally start aggressively doubting myself when I like something that everyone else hates, but I think in this instance the NT’s Man and Boy is simply about as ‘me’ coded as theatre gets
am I the only person in this country who thinks the weather's been absolutely fine so far this year
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 AM
am I the only person in this country who thinks the weather's been absolutely fine so far this year
noooooo not Dawson!
February 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM
noooooo not Dawson!
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Great review of MAN AND BOY @nationaltheatre.org.uk that expresses very much my view of this revelatory production that frees Rattigan from scenographic conservatism. @mrlukowski.bsky.social
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Man and Boy, National Theatre Dorfman review: An extraordinary performance from Ben Daniels powers this revelatory take on Terence Rattigan’s finance drama
Man and Boy is never going to displace The Deep Blue Sea or The Browning Version or even French without Tears as the quintessential Terence Rattigan work. But t
www.timeout.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Great review of MAN AND BOY @nationaltheatre.org.uk that expresses very much my view of this revelatory production that frees Rattigan from scenographic conservatism. @mrlukowski.bsky.social
www.timeout.com/london/theat...
www.timeout.com/london/theat...
five stars from me for Anthony Lau’s wild ride free jazz Rattigan, with an incredible performance from Ben Daniels www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Man and Boy, National Theatre Dorfman review: An extraordinary performance from Ben Daniels powers this revelatory take on Terence Rattigan’s finance drama
Man and Boy is never going to displace The Deep Blue Sea or The Browning Version or even French without Tears as the quintessential Terence Rattigan work. But t
www.timeout.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:17 AM
five stars from me for Anthony Lau’s wild ride free jazz Rattigan, with an incredible performance from Ben Daniels www.timeout.com/london/theat...
lol this is the most American sentence ever written - yes, what could you possibly do with half a bottle of wine other than throw it out or cook with it
If there’s a half-finished bottle of wine lingering in your fridge right now, don’t toss it.
Here are recipes to help you give a second life to that opened bottle — down to the very last drop:
Here are recipes to help you give a second life to that opened bottle — down to the very last drop:
10 dinner recipes to finish off a bottle of wine
Put your leftover wine to work in hearty stews, fondue and more.
wapo.st
February 11, 2026 at 6:34 AM
lol this is the most American sentence ever written - yes, what could you possibly do with half a bottle of wine other than throw it out or cook with it
wow this is genuinely upsettingly horrible – the staff of PlayStation magazine in 1998 soliciting bath pics of readers’ girlfriends in exchange for prizes
February 10, 2026 at 12:18 PM
wow this is genuinely upsettingly horrible – the staff of PlayStation magazine in 1998 soliciting bath pics of readers’ girlfriends in exchange for prizes
friends fear he’s going through an ‘early Manics phase’
February 10, 2026 at 8:59 AM
friends fear he’s going through an ‘early Manics phase’
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Not only do I admire the commitment here but the write up is also very funny:
'now let me talk about farfalle: farfalle is not pasta. farfalle is a design flaw someone decided to mass produce'
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'now let me talk about farfalle: farfalle is not pasta. farfalle is a design flaw someone decided to mass produce'
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From the Cooking community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Cooking community
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February 6, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Not only do I admire the commitment here but the write up is also very funny:
'now let me talk about farfalle: farfalle is not pasta. farfalle is a design flaw someone decided to mass produce'
www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...
'now let me talk about farfalle: farfalle is not pasta. farfalle is a design flaw someone decided to mass produce'
www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...
that McKellen speech going viral: yes, great to know Shakespeare/Hand D was a dude; but really just delighted (a small, liberal corner of) the internet is being exposed to some some really top notch VERSE SPEAKING
February 6, 2026 at 8:50 AM
that McKellen speech going viral: yes, great to know Shakespeare/Hand D was a dude; but really just delighted (a small, liberal corner of) the internet is being exposed to some some really top notch VERSE SPEAKING
Lost Atoms by Frantic Assembly is very enjoyable, a soapy story of a couple’s ups and downs given a big extra kick by the fact they spend the whole time clambering over a gigantic filing cabinet www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Lost Atoms, Lyric Hammersmith review: Virtuosic staging from Frantic Assembly elevates this gripping account of a couple’s rise and fall
If you staged it as a radio play, Anna Jordan’s Lost Atoms would be a skilled but conventional story of a relationship, from meet cute through to heavily foresh
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February 5, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Lost Atoms by Frantic Assembly is very enjoyable, a soapy story of a couple’s ups and downs given a big extra kick by the fact they spend the whole time clambering over a gigantic filing cabinet www.timeout.com/london/theat...
I think Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is probably the perfect play, which doesn’t necessarily make it that easy to stage well, but fundamentally it is pretty amazing to have Arcadia back www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Arcadia, Old Vic review: intimate revival of Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece
Carrie Cracknell’s intimate revival of Stoppard’s masterpiece has its flaws – but it’s just so good to have this astonishing play back on the stage
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February 5, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I think Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is probably the perfect play, which doesn’t necessarily make it that easy to stage well, but fundamentally it is pretty amazing to have Arcadia back www.timeout.com/london/theat...
my big question about the christopher nolan helen of troy casting is what is helen of troy doing in the odyssey
February 4, 2026 at 7:59 AM
my big question about the christopher nolan helen of troy casting is what is helen of troy doing in the odyssey
tbf the great British public would probably tolerate actual fascism if he was proposing £2 off a pint but 5p is… basically meaningless, surely
February 3, 2026 at 11:48 AM
tbf the great British public would probably tolerate actual fascism if he was proposing £2 off a pint but 5p is… basically meaningless, surely
a fun fact about REM (the band) is that their name doesn’t actually stand for anything and indeed they had to tell off some early promoter or other for writing 'rapid eye movement' on a concert poster
I was 29 when I learned that REM hadn't named themselves after Rare Earth Minerals, like our GCSE chemistry teacher told us.
February 3, 2026 at 10:35 AM
a fun fact about REM (the band) is that their name doesn’t actually stand for anything and indeed they had to tell off some early promoter or other for writing 'rapid eye movement' on a concert poster
Sadie S will be playing the lead role in the Royal Court transfer of John Proctor is the Villain! No, not THAT Sadie S www.timeout.com/london/theat...
John Proctor is the Villain, Royal Court Theatre: This high school-set, Crucible-riffing Broadway smash transfers to the Royal Court
There are three obvious ‘wow’ moments in the Royal Court Theatre’s seventieth birthday programme. Two are starry revivals of classic plays from the theatre’s pa
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February 2, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Sadie S will be playing the lead role in the Royal Court transfer of John Proctor is the Villain! No, not THAT Sadie S www.timeout.com/london/theat...
not that it’s that important but where would Olivier’s plaque BE? it doesn’t seem to say anywhere
Nine blue plaques are coming to streets across London, honouring the activists, scientists, actors and writers who shaped our city.
Their stories live on in the places they lived and worked, helping keep London’s history visible and alive.
Their stories live on in the places they lived and worked, helping keep London’s history visible and alive.
Sir Laurence Olivier among nine honoured with new London blue plaques
The scheme is honouring figures including the late actor Sir Laurence Olivier.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 10:07 AM
not that it’s that important but where would Olivier’s plaque BE? it doesn’t seem to say anywhere
this was all before my time so maybe I'm lacking context but sort of mad that nobody seemed to really mind that Boney M were basically exactly the same idea as Milli Vanilli by exactly the same guy and nobody seemed to mind particularly
Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan on his lip-syncing downfall and Grammys comeback: ‘The truth will set you free’
Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan on his lip-syncing downfall and Grammys comeback: ‘The truth will set you free’
Three decades after having his Grammy rescinded as part of the notorious duo, he is a nominee once more, for the audiobook of his unflinching memoir. ‘I had to tell my story,’ he says
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February 1, 2026 at 11:48 AM
this was all before my time so maybe I'm lacking context but sort of mad that nobody seemed to really mind that Boney M were basically exactly the same idea as Milli Vanilli by exactly the same guy and nobody seemed to mind particularly
very much enjoyed Tim Crouch’s extremely Tim Crouch-y Tempest, though assume some people will have absolutely hated it www.timeout.com/london/theat...
The Tempest, Shakespeare’s Globe review: Tim Crouch’s cerebral meta-Tempest is a lot of fun (so long as you know what you’re letting yourself in for)
As a schoolchild in the late ‘90s I swear to god I saw a production of The Tempest – I think at Malvern Theatre – that mostly consisted of Prospero and his vil
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January 30, 2026 at 11:06 AM
very much enjoyed Tim Crouch’s extremely Tim Crouch-y Tempest, though assume some people will have absolutely hated it www.timeout.com/london/theat...
is now a good time to say that when I went on a press trip to china a few years back the person organising it didn’t want to say I was a journalist on my visa so she put me down as a cannery owner, because in Fallout 4 there is a character called Lukowski who has a cannery
January 29, 2026 at 1:45 PM
is now a good time to say that when I went on a press trip to china a few years back the person organising it didn’t want to say I was a journalist on my visa so she put me down as a cannery owner, because in Fallout 4 there is a character called Lukowski who has a cannery
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
I reviewed Riz Ahmed’s Hamlet! A fascinating attempt to really do Hamlet AS A FILM (as opposed to a bunch of theatre people bunging a play on screen), it’s good – and gloriously intense – but in trying to transcend the play it sort of trips over the play www.timeout.com/movies/hamle...
Hamlet review: Riz Ahmed’s intense modern London screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece is fearlessly cinematic
Shakespeare’s tragedy is boldly reimagined in modern-day London
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January 28, 2026 at 10:18 AM
I reviewed Riz Ahmed’s Hamlet! A fascinating attempt to really do Hamlet AS A FILM (as opposed to a bunch of theatre people bunging a play on screen), it’s good – and gloriously intense – but in trying to transcend the play it sort of trips over the play www.timeout.com/movies/hamle...
might collar Rupert Goold at American Psycho and demand he makes Old Vic shows do publicity images on a consistent basis
January 27, 2026 at 5:13 PM
might collar Rupert Goold at American Psycho and demand he makes Old Vic shows do publicity images on a consistent basis