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Veronica Lee

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Veronica is an award-winning writer and critic who contributes on theatre and comedy to the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Observer and London Evening Standard.

Articles By Veronica Lee

The Host review - implausible suspense thriller

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Simon Amstell, Netflix review - wisdom and wisecracks

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Clarence Clemons: Who Do I Think I Am? review - documentary about Springsteen's saxophonist

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Rachel Fairburn, Go Faster Stripe review - smart and subtle gags

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Lazy Susan, Soho Theatre On Demand review - sketch duo's ingeniously plotted show

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The Steph Show, Channel 4 review - magazine show debuts from host's front room

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Christine and the Queens/Instagram review - musical missives during lockdown

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Michelle Wolf: Joke Show, Netflix review - edgy and original material

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Mister Winner, BBC2 review - gentle comedy about one of life's losers

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Shappi Khorsandi, Soho Theatre On Demand - enjoyable run-through of her career

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Steve Martin and Martin Short, SSE Hydro Glasgow review - old friends bring a touch of vaudeville

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Tom Rosenthal, The Hawth, Crawley review - circumcision made funny

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John Shuttleworth, Leicester Square Theatre review - reflections on life in the slow lane

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The Trouble With Maggie Cole, ITV review - Dawn French stars in new comedy drama

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United Queendom, Kensington Palace review - rollicking royal tale

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Lucy Porter, Quarterhouse, Folkestone review - confessions of an ex-Brownie

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St Marti...

In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...

Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...

After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...

4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu

Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly unimaginative to mark the...

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American advent...

Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...

Red Path review - the dead know everything

Here’s a film you might not feel like seeing. After all, Red Path tells of a 14-year-old in Tunisia who is forced to carry home the...

Album: Loyle Carner - Hopefully!

Loyle Carner’s Hopefully! is a luminous, deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, identity, and artistic reinvention, marking the south...

The Midnight Bell, Sadler's Wells review - a first repr...

Rarely has a revival given a firmer thumbs-up for the future of dance-theatre. Yet Matthew Bourne’s latest show, first aired at the tail-end of...

Album: HAIM - I Quit

Haim’s profile just grows and grows. Since their last album, youngest sibling Alana’s starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s whimsical Seventies...