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Veronica Lee

Bio
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

Lou Sanders, Soho Theatre review - feminism and dodgy massages

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God's Dice, Soho Theatre review - overlong and overblown

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Ben Elton, Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall review - magnificent return to stand-up

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Lenny Henry, Watford Colosseum review - enjoyable evening with genial host

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Hannah Gadsby, Royal Festival Hall review - simply magnificent

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The Watsons, Menier Chocolate Factory review - Laura Wade's inventive new play

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Eddie Izzard, Brighton Dome review - splendidly surreal storytelling

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Ed Byrne, Berry Theatre, Hedge End review - musing on middle-age angst

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Count Arthur Strong, Leeds City Varieties review - stargazing and mangled syntax

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Brydon, Mack and Mitchell, Portsmouth Guildhall review - family-friendly fun

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Sofie Hagen, Soho Theatre review - sex weekend in Swansea, anyone?

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The Capture, BBC One review - gripping drama about the surveillance society

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High Society: Cannabis Café, Channel 4 review - pointless investigation into drug-taking

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Bartholomew Fair, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - Jonson's chaotic slice of 17th-century life

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Fleabag, Wyndham's Theatre review - superb swansong for modern classic

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Sink or Swim, Channel 4 review - the Channel awaits for these celebrities

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Weilerstein, NYO2, Payare / Dueñas, Malofeev, Edinburgh Inte...

NYO2 is a group of dazzlingly talented (and terrifyingly young-looking) 14-17 year olds from the USA, one of Carnegie Hall’s three national youth...

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Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams review - love lessons

Rising temperatures, prickling skin, longing’s all-consuming ache: first love’s swooning symptoms overtake 17-year-old Johanne (Ella Øverbye) in...

Album: Black Honey - Soak

The default setting for Brighton indie quartet Black Honey...

Káťa Kabanová, Glyndebourne review - emotional concentration...

Even more perhaps than straight theatre, opera seems to draw attention to the meaning behind what may on the face of it appear a simple story....

The Count of Monte Cristo, U&Drama review - silly telly...

Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been filmed an immeasurable number of times (there was a new French version only last year) and...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Lost Lear / Consumed

Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Alison Spittle / Christopher...

Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★

Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as...

Blu-ray: Two Way Stretch / Heavens Above

The years between 1955’s The Ladykillers and 1964’s Dr Strangelove were the years of what Sanjeev Bhaskar recently described as...