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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

Death on the Nile review - Kenneth Branagh flounders again as Poirot

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Matt Forde: The Political Party review - topical stand-up and chat

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Nish Kumar, Soho Theatre review - how a bad gig turned into a terrific show

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Alan Carr, Milton Keynes Theatre review - comic keeps it relentlessly light

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Russell Howard, Netflix special review - joyous return to live performance

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Birmingham Hippodrome review - Jason Donovan makes his panto debut

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One-Woman Show review - Liz Kingsman's spot-on spoof

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The Apprentice, Series 16, BBC One review - will they never learn?

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Pantomime 2021 round-up 2: TV stars in the spotlight

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Best of 2021: Comedy

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Pantomime 2021 round-up 1: a great Dame and two debuts

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Shagged. Married. Annoyed. Live, O2 Arena review - popular podcast lost in translation

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Alfie Brown, Soho Theatre review - a contrarian on great form

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King Richard review - Will Smith gives an affecting performance as Richard Williams

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Ahir Shah, Soho Theatre review - lockdown laid bare

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Iliza Shlesinger, Eventim Apollo review - feminism, the internet - and bras

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Brancusi, Pompidou Centre, Paris review - founding father of...

One hundred and twenty sculptures, and so much more: the current Brancusi blockbuster at the Centre Pompidou, the first large Paris show of the...

Album: Bab L'Bluz - Swaken

Bab L’Bluz are a French-Moroccan four-piece that play a tasty blend of fiery psychedelic rock backed up with hypnotic North African gnawa rhythms...

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, Disney+ review - h...

To mark the 40th anniversary of New Jersey’s second-greatest gift to rock’n’roll,...

Album: Pokey LaFarge - Rhumba Country

Pokey LaFarge has always defied categorisation. He likened his 2020 album Rock Bottom Rhapsody to a mix tape, with elements of...

L'Olimpiade, Irish National Opera review - Vivaldi...

In Vivaldi’s more extravagant operas, some of the arias can seem like a competition for the gold medal. L’Olimpiade is relatively modest...

Red Eye, ITV review - Anglo-Chinese relations tested in junk...

Aircraft hijacking is a ghoulishly popular theme in films and TV, but Red Eye brings a slightly different twist to the perils of air...

Album: Josienne Clarke - Parenthesis, I

Parentheses, I is an album title  (I) – that’s a hieroglyph of the self, the brackets like...

Music Reissues Weekly: West Coast Consortium - All The Love...

West Coast Consortium’s first single was July 1967’s “Some Other Someday,” a delightful slice of Mellotron-infused harmony pop which wasn’t too...

Love Lies Bleeding review - a pumped-up neo-noir

Somewhere along a desert highway in the American Southwest, where there's not much to do besides get drunk, shoot guns, and pump iron, a stranger...

Remembering conductor Andrew Davis (1944-2024)

As a human being of immense warmth, humour and erudition, Andrew Davis made it all too easy to forget what towering, incandescent performances he...