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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 Catherine Tate Show Live, Wyndham's Theatre review - sketch show favourites on stage

Wednesday, 09 January 2019 Read more...

Best of 2018: Comedy

Friday, 28 December 2018 Read more...

Upstart Crow, BBC Two review - Shakespeare does Dickens in seasonal tale

Wednesday, 26 December 2018 Read more...

Caroline, or Change, Playhouse Theatre review - Sharon D Clarke is superlative

Wednesday, 19 December 2018 Read more...

Mary Poppins Returns review - Emily Blunt makes the role her own

Wednesday, 19 December 2018 Read more...

Aladdin, New Wimbledon Theatre review - enjoyable but underpowered

Monday, 17 December 2018 Read more...

Aladdin, Hackney Empire review - Clive Rowe returns as the Dame

Monday, 10 December 2018 Read more...

Hari Kondabolu, Soho Theatre review - from politics to papayas

Wednesday, 05 December 2018 Read more...

Matt Forde, Purcell Room review - politics plus deft impressions

Monday, 03 December 2018 Read more...

Dick Whittington, Lyric Hammersmith review - big-hearted fun

Wednesday, 28 November 2018 Read more...

Dave Gorman, Royal Festival Hall review - PowerPoint king is back with bite

Tuesday, 27 November 2018 Read more...

Natalie Palamides, Soho Theatre - challenging show about consent

Friday, 16 November 2018 Read more...

Peterloo review - Mike Leigh's angry historical drama

Thursday, 01 November 2018 Read more...

I and You, Hampstead Theatre review - Young Adult drama packs emotional punch

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 Read more...

Ayesha Hazarika, Soho Theatre review - feminism examined

Monday, 29 October 2018 Read more...

Ciarán Dowd, Soho Theatre review - terrific spoof swordsman tale

Monday, 15 October 2018 Read more...

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Album: Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love...

This is a weird one: I do try and stay on top of pop culture, but for several years, Ethel Cain completely passed me by. You’d think I would have...

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...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Monstering the Rocketman by...

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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

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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...