Andrzej Łukowski
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Polish Brummie, Time Out London theatre editor and kids person
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
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why is the hot norwegian chef apparently making dozens of toasties when the ambassador only wanted one
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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
1 day ago
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as you would expect from the NYT, the best thing about this article is the 100% absence of any bants
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1 day ago
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fair play to jeremy o harris, there but for the grace of god etc
2 days ago
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it’s that time of the year where I feel like a froth-mouthed contrarian for using apple music
4 days ago
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Mama Goose at Stratford East is a terrific panto that shows what a gift Vikki Stone is to the whole ‘scene’ – so much to love but the AI love interest, playwright Ché Walker as a geezerish goose, and the very childish Elon Musk scene were my highlights
www.timeout.com/london/theat...
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Mama Goose, Stratford East review: This deliriously fun panto from Vikki Stone and Tonderai Munyevu is Stratford East’s best in years
Proof that the Lyric Hammersmith is basically London’s flagship panto these days comes from the opposite end of London, as Stratford East chalks up its best sea
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/mama-goose-review
4 days ago
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Fallen Angels at the Menier is quite nice but for me maybe something a bit perverse about treating plays that were shocking 100 years ago as pleasant period pieces today
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Fallen Angels, Menier Chocolate Factory review: A century on and Noël Coward’s infidelity comedy remains amusing, if hardly radical
A century ago, Noël Coward was the shit. Aged just 25, he was in a phase of his career when he couldn’t stop scoring hits. And he wasn’t simply some young fogey
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/fallen-angels-1-review
4 days ago
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bloody hell!
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5 days ago
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everything about that Graham Linehan Observer piece is cursed, and I'm afraid it makes for a pretty good read
6 days ago
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I very much enjoyed Paddington the Musical though I feel like the 5* reviews are all bit ‘British theatre critics get sentimental about a heartwarming thing’
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
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Review: ‘Paddington the Musical’ at the Savoy Theatre
The bear from Peru takes to the stage like marmalade to a sandwich in this musical extravaganza
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/review-paddington-the-musical-at-the-savoy-theatre-113025
7 days ago
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I was today years old when I learned Tom Stoppard did some script doctoring on Revenge of the Sith
8 days ago
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ah RIP, what a titan, obviously old as the hills but still a shock as he seemed like such a vibrant figure into deep old age, still working, still supportive of revivals etc. What a life
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8 days ago
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David Eldridge’s adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is very well done, I was gripped, well done all
www.timeout.com/london/theat...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, @sohoplace review: This slickly noirish adaptation of John le Carré’s classic espionage novel is thoroughly gripping
David Eldridge’s acclaimed stage adaptation of John Le Carré’s timeless Cold War spy novel hits the West End
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-review
9 days ago
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The Globe/Headlong Midsummer Night’s Dream is loads of fun for ages and then goes and makes an incredibly weird decision at the end that totally kills the buzz
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Globe review: This stylish midwinter ‘Dream’ gets carried away with its own edginess
‘Merry and tragical. Tedious and brief’ is how the play with a play staged at the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is described. While nobody could accuse this
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/a-midsummer-nights-dream-97-review
9 days ago
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at Riverside Studios is astoundingly bad in a real but seriously guys WTF why didn’t you just stick to the plot of the novel guys sort of way
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at Riverside Studios is terrible
A bafflingly dreadful immersive theatre adaptation of Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-review
10 days ago
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The Lyric Hammersmith panto is once again the sharpest and most inventive game in town, and top marks for turning Pretty Fly for a White Guy into a song about a Ucas inspection
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Jack and the Beanstalk, Lyric Hammersmith review: school-set remix of the classic panto plot
The Lyric’s brilliantly inventive take on a familiar panto plot relocates the action to a hyper strict Hammersmith academy
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/jack-and-the-beanstalk-29-review
11 days ago
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Unofficial Time Out London Bot
16 days ago
Review: ★★★★★ ‘All My Sons’ starring Bryan Cranston at Wyndham’s Theatre
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Review: ★★★★★ ‘All My Sons’ starring Bryan Cranston at Wyndham’s Theatre
A decade after his landmark ‘A View from the Bridge’, director Ivo van Hove strikes gold with another Arthur Miller play
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/review-all-my-sons-starring-bran-cranston-at-wyndhams-theatre-112225
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I loved Ivo van Hove’s All My Sons, probably not quite the watershed his View from the Bridge was but nonetheless magnificent and head and shoulders over the other productions I’ve seen – VH really embraces its undercurrents, it feels incredibly rich
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Review: ★★★★★ ‘All My Sons’ starring Bryan Cranston at Wyndham’s Theatre
A decade after his landmark ‘A View from the Bridge’, director Ivo van Hove strikes gold with another Arthur Miller play
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/review-all-my-sons-starring-bran-cranston-at-wyndhams-theatre-112225
15 days ago
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it is three days since secret cinema sent out an email to their entire mailing list saying they would announce their new show the next day (the show has still not been officially announced despite a deadline article saying what it was)
16 days ago
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obviously hms for looking but some of the grok-musk sycophancy tweets are absolutely sublime
16 days ago
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I thought End at the NT suffered from the need to replicate the structure of Beginning – too much happened in a single 90-minute chat. But I've enjoyed the fact David Eldridge’s NT trilogy is basically a really forensic dissection of middle-aged Brits
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End, National Theatre review: Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves give fine performances in the final part of David Eldridge’s trilogy exploring middle age
Alfie (Clive Owen) is dying of cancer. Julie (Saskia Reeves) is not. A couple since their twenties, their lives are about to diverge dramatically, though precis
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/end-review
16 days ago
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if Mani had only ever written the bassline to Kowalski he’d be rightly hailed as a legend
16 days ago
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no review of Van Hove’s All My Sons until tomorrow night but I can reveal there was an absolutely SUBLIME moment at the end when Bryan Cranston said the words ‘all my sons’ and there was a hushed but very audible 'mmmmm!' from multiple audience members around me
17 days ago
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herein lies my account of a weekend getting over-involved with 24-hour-long Lovecraft-inspired immersive theatre show The Key of Dreams
www.timeout.com/uk/theatre/i...
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I went to a 24-hour, £450 immersive theatre horror experience in Wales, and I’d go back again
‘The Key of Dreams’ is as epic as it gets, an HP Lovecraft-inspired weekend away in an isolated ‘Traitors’-style manor house
https://www.timeout.com/uk/theatre/i-went-to-a-24-hour-450-immersive-theatre-horror-experience-in-wales-and-id-do-it-again
18 days ago
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do kids maypole dance anymore? I'm not sure if my primary school was unusually pagan or my kids' school is unusually, er, unpagan
18 days ago
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I was saying the other day that it was weird these days to have West End Shakespeare not directed by either Robert Icke or Jamie Lloyd and I then fretted Icke had only done one this decade, so thank you Robert Icke for directing Romeo & Juliet next year
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Sadie Sink will make her London stage debut next year in Robert Icke’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’
The ‘Stranger Things’ star will play Juliet to Noah Jupe’s Romeo in auteur director Icke’s 2026 Shakespeare revival
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/sadie-sink-will-make-her-london-stage-debut-next-year-in-robert-ickes-romeo-juliet-111825
19 days ago
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just had a discussion about the genre of Doctor Who episode that is basically ‘oh wow the Doctor has coincidentally travelled back in time to the writer’s personal historical hobbyhorse’ and what cringe episode WE would write
21 days ago
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sad the Americans don’t get June Watson (90), thrilled they instead get Anne Reid (90) – I mean that’s living a life isn’t it
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23 days ago
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I went to see Last Day of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition and it was enjoyably silly in a kind of 'somewhat inaccurate history for a 14-year-old metaller’ sort of way
www.timeout.com/london/thing...
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The Last Days of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition review, ImmerseLDN: This preposterously bombastic immersive exhibition about the eruption of Vesuvius is silly but fun
Tech-enhanced exhibition detailing the Roman town of Pompeii’s final hours before it was destroyed by a volcano
https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/the-last-days-of-pompeii-the-immersive-exhibition-review
23 days ago
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Porn Play at the Royal Court has an incredibly committed performance from Ambika Mod at its centre, but I couldn’t help but feel a drama about a woman addicted to violent porn is so rare that all the clever clever stuff about Milton really clogged it up
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Porn Play, Royal Court Theatre review: Ambika Mod gives a fearless performance as a woman addicted to violent porn in this gutsy new play
I’m going to be honest and say that I was worried I’d not be able to take a drama about a porn addict entirely seriously. It’s an unusual subject!And certainl
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/porn-play-review
23 days ago
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the guardian writing an editorial in praise of the return of Play for Today and then slagging off the actual product feels emblematic of the whole situation - people love the idea of P4T but what could it possibly actually be like in 2025?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Play for Today review – Channel 5 has turned wildly influential TV drama into banal pantomime
This revival of the classic BBC drama strand is utterly lacking in the innovative spirit of the original. The next Dennis Potter might be out there somewhere …but they certainly aren’t here
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/13/play-for-today-review-channel-5-drama-bbc-revival
24 days ago
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thrilled to say I'm in today’s Guardian theatre section (quoted last in a reviews round up)
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
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Gasp-worthy, clunky, a moral problem? Critics react to The Hunger Games: On Stage
The reviews are in for the long-awaited adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel, presented in a purpose-built theatre in Canary Wharf
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/13/hunger-games-on-stage-premiere-critics-reviews
24 days ago
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I thought if The Hunger Games: On Stage had had a really great lead performance it would actually have been pretty great, as it is Mia Carragher is okay but not a generational talent etc
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Review: The Hunger Games: On Stage
This lavish stage adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel is staged in the purpose built Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/review-the-hunger-games-on-stage-111225
24 days ago
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Play for Today is back tonight apparently - here’s a thing I wrote about the complicated phenomenon of nostalgia for a show that ended 40 years ago and could never exist in its old form today!
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24 days ago
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if you take every Bond film as canon then he’s a 100+ year old shapeshifting entity doomed to repeat an endless cycle of recruitment to MI5, meeting the latest incarnation of Blofeld, etc etc (tbh I'd be into a film that expressly addressed this)
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26 days ago
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Hello Boils and Ghouls
27 days ago
Joyce Carol Oates please post about how Musk has never known the joy of tackling a Grizzly Bear Cub
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this incredibly goth Charli XCX/John Cale collaboration from the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights soundtrack is so good it‘s making me temporarily open-minded about the film
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Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7wlBfASA&t=196s
27 days ago
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oh no no no
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27 days ago
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this is a delightfully classic Stage social sell insofar as the piece is not really about that but asking what people are nostalgic for when they say they’re nostalgic for Play for Today and whether that can really exist in 2025-slash-six
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about 1 month ago
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weirdly light and funny take on Othello at the Haymarket, you’d say 'what do you expect in a commercial theatre’ but funny how jarring it feels now West End Shakespeare has basically become the preserve of Jamie Lloyd and Robert Icke
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Othello, Theatre Royal Haymarket review: David Harewood and Toby Jones are excellent in this overly-polished West End Shakespeare
Though it would be pushing it to say Tom Morris directs Othello as a comedy, he certainly wrings more laughs than usual out of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.To
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/othello-23-review
about 1 month ago
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this is a boring comment but my ultimate game pass xbox subscription price has not gone up, will it continue to not go up?
about 1 month ago
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Happy Mamdani won, happier still that after several long hard decades, the 2025 New York City mayoral election has been concluded
about 1 month ago
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£74.50 as top price for the new Court season is an unfortunate sign of the times, over a tenner up on this year
about 1 month ago
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finished reading Lord of the Rings with the eldest, a process that has taken up most of the year. ONLY NOW is her permitted to watch the films
about 1 month ago
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so paddington is going to be played by a small person in a bear costume, is that what the big secret was
about 1 month ago
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the most annoying thing about this phenomenon is it is implicitly based on the assumption everything was loads better five years ago or whatever, which it definitely wasn’t
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about 1 month ago
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I am increasingly convinced Your Party are a psyop by the Greens
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about 1 month ago
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Next door in Silicon Valley
about 1 month ago
I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
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Jim Waterson
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This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?
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