102 stories by "Andrzej Lukowski"
"The Believers Are But Brothers" invites a theater audience to join a messaging group to explore themes of religious radicalism and masculinity.
I was a fan of Josie Rourke and her regime at the Donmar Warehouse. She and executive director Kate Pakenham took a
Search for 'Hamilton' and 'game-changer' and you will not go short of results: it's the epithet of choice for Lin-Manuel Miranda's all-conquering
Alan Ayckbourn’s The Divide was not a divisive show. It was panned by pretty much every critic who saw it after opening
In recent years, the Evening Standard Awards has been accused of rewarding the most famous, if not always the most deserving, performers
A new play at the Young Vic portrays life in a bleak migrant camp and how theater and music united some members of that homeless, fractured community.
George Osborne couldn't fix the economy " but might the chancellor-turned-newspaperman have successfully repaired the Evening Standard Theatre Awards? To recap: after
What’s the most successful original British stage drama of the 21st century? I should stress the ‘original’, which means I’m not having
It may seem a weird cosmic joke (or perhaps an intervention by the Greek gods " more of whom later), but two
Remember those five minutes or so when Nicholas Hytner ducked out of British theatre? Yeah, me neither. Because now that he's back
As Mark Shenton recently observed, there is a lot of new writing in London at the moment. The National Theatre only has
Similar surnames excepted, Peter Brook and Mel Brooks are not two men with a huge amount in common. One is an avant-garde
I wouldn’t say I blagged my way into professional theatre journalism. But looking back I understand why friends who thought of me
I still remember the great excitement in my household when the National Lottery launched back in 1994. A legitimate, government-sanctioned way to
Emma Rice, the outgoing artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, has been trapped on a default setting of 'dignified silence' " except for
At this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, I got a bad review. A stinking, terrible lousy review. A hatchet job, if you will. And
What has happened at Summerhall? During my nine-day stint at Edinburgh this year more than half the shows I saw were somewhere
There's something brilliantly incongruous about the New York Times' Ben Brantley turning up to shows in London; a bit like that time
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child director John Tiffany has returned to the Royal Court with a play about a working-class town
Let's be totally honest, there was no perfect choice of artistic director to replace Emma Rice at Shakespeare's Globe. There was no
In 2014, I saw a play called Bakersfield Mist, a terrible American comedy that blithely squandered the acting talents of Ian McDiarmid
The last vintage year for the British musical was 2011, when Matilda stormed the West End and London Road did something genuinely,
“We'll be taking money out of London," said newly-minted ACE boss Nicholas Serota on Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday, aka NPO
Long before the term 'fake news', there was 'clickbait' " the persistent suggestion that contemporary web journalism is being degraded by a
After a weekend overindulging in the total ridiculousness of British politics, things were put into perspective on Monday morning when I awoke
