Andrzej Lukowski: The National's Olivier has two duds running " should we worry? by Andrzej Lukowski

I thought National Theatre boss Rufus Norris was looking a bit knackered when I saw him across the room on the opening

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on June 13, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: If Emma Rice never directs Shakespeare again, we'll have missed a trick by Andrzej Lukowski

So that's pretty much it then: the Globe's latest production of Twelfth Night has opened, and it's probably the last time Emma

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on May 30, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Theatre on TV is being lost in translation by Andrzej Lukowski

While I'm not one of those dreadful people who don't watch TV, I am enough of a theatre wanker to moan constantly

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on May 16, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: If you're going to break theatre review embargoes, have some balls about it by Andrzej Lukowski

It wasn't so long ago that the British press still had the nads to wander into a major new theatre show uninvited,

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on May 5, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Is Hytner being cut too much slack over Bridge Theatre programming? by Andrzej Lukowski

The reactions to the inaugural season at Nicholas Hytner's new Bridge Theatre have been a splash varied but generally positive: on the

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on May 2, 2017☆⚑

Oliviers 2017: Andrzej Lukowski " How ITV edited out Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Andrzej Lukowski

When The Stage asked me if I'd care to write an article comparing ITV's two-hour Olivier Awards broadcast to the real thing,

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on April 13, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Will TV Oliviers be any good? by Andrzej Lukowski

This year, the Olivier Awards are finally getting a decent, two-hour, prime-time TV slot, and not before bloody time. As you're reading

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:00am on April 6, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: The Oliviers have dumped the audience award " but should we mourn it? by Andrzej Lukowski

Amid the flurry of changes at the Olivier Awards this year " new venue, new host, plush new telly time slot "

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on April 4, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: I love the Oliviers, but the best new play category is a mess by Andrzej Lukowski

I genuinely love the Olivier Awards. They are literally the poshest event that anybody ever invites me to. And though gripes are

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:33am on March 8, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: It took a Broadway tantrum to make me feel better about British theatre by Andrzej Lukowski

Like many other minor theatre hacks, I'm sure, I recently allowed myself the brief, mad fantasy that I might apply for the

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on February 22, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Is British theatre too soft to produce a great, right-wing play? by Andrzej Lukowski

This year, of all years, would be a good year for somebody to come up with that most elusive of theatrical beasts,

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on February 3, 2017☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: It turns out that panto is the antidote to 2016 by Andrzej Lukowski

One of the more niche side effects of the EU referendum is the egregious amount of soul-searching it's induced in the UK

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on December 8, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Want a new theatrical experience? Try watching Hamilton on US election night by Andrzej Lukowski

I saw Hamilton on election night and it was really weird. I had wondered why Sam Rudy, the infamous PR gatekeeper to

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on November 17, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: And the prize for best awards ceremony goes to… all of them by Andrzej Lukowski

I absolutely, unequivocally love the theatre awards season, which gets underway properly with the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards " on Sunday

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:00am on November 10, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Theatre's liberal values just aren't in vogue anymore by Andrzej Lukowski

I never thought I'd be moved to tears by anything but tedium by an Arts Council England document. But when ACE 'dropped'

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 3:00am on November 3, 2016☆⚑

Ruhrtrienniale, Germany: Performances flourish in post-industrial splendour by Andrzej Lukowski

Germany's Ruhr region is a prosaic, post-industrial sprawl that is probably considerably more representative of the country as a whole than, say,

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 9:00am on October 20, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Amdram brings new work to an appreciative wider audience by Andrzej Lukowski

As far as I'm aware, I managed to make it to the age of 35 without ever having seen a performance by

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on October 14, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Would I go to the theatre if I wasn't a critic? Honestly? by Andrzej Lukowski

If I didn't work as a theatre journalist, I'm pretty certain that I'd never actually go to the theatre. Alright, that's quite

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on August 30, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Meet the youngest performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Andrzej Lukowski

I've been slightly obsessed with Thorium Theatre's Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Come Look at the Baby ever since I first heard about

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on August 15, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Has Edinburgh's Traverse suffered from weight of expectations? by Andrzej Lukowski

Want to write an op-ed on the lacklustre Traverse season?, runs the commissioning email. I mean yes, why the heck not "

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33am on August 12, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: I need the Edinburgh bubble to escape the harsh reality of 2016 by Andrzej Lukowski

The so-called 'Edinburgh bubble' is such an obnoxious phenomenon that you might not have heard of it unless you've actually been in

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on August 5, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: We care " but it's not up to critics to police diversity debate by Andrzej Lukowski

It's difficult to feel massively sorry for Trevor Nunn, an enormously wealthy man who gets to spend his twilight years ticking obscure

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:00am on June 30, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Theatre criticism would benefit from a bit of monkeying around by Andrzej Lukowski

This October marks the 10-year anniversary of the best and most important piece of criticism of our time, wherein some dude called

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on June 17, 2016☆⚑

Will theatre critics break the Harry Potter reviews embargo? by Andrzej Lukowski

On August 8 last year, the theatre director John Tiffany wrote an article for the Guardian saying that he was 'angry that

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 3:09pm on June 7, 2016☆⚑

Andrzej Lukowski: Was revenge really the motive for the end of NT's 'plus ones'? by Andrzej Lukowski

This week's great theatre scandal is the National Theatre's proposal to strip critics of their traditional invitation to bring a guest to

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 8:06am on May 24, 2016☆⚑