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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

Dave Chappelle: The Closer, Netflix review - race and class examined

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Jason Manford, London Palladium review - lockdown laughs and feelgood fun

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Anuvab Pal, Soho Theatre review - Empire and Bollywood collide

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Olga Koch, Soho Theatre review - personal, political and playful

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Dead Ringers Live, London Wonderground review - impressionists on great form

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Edinburgh Fringe 2021: Comedy Allstars, Underbelly review - depleted festival kicks off

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Wonderville, Palace Theatre review - magic and illusion family show

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Bo Burnham: Inside, Netflix review - a masterpiece about lockdown angst

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Comedy Shindig, Melbourne Hall review - Jason Manford headlines opening night

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Jimmy Carr, Palace Theatre review - rape gags and risible claims

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Mark Thomas, Soho Theatre review - new state-of-the-nation show

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Four Quartets, Theatre Royal Bath review - Ralph Fiennes gives a compelling performance

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Arthur Smith, Brighton Fringe review - touching memoir of his dad

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Reclaim These Streets fundraiser, 21Soho review - entertaining mixed bill hosted by Sarah Keyworth

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Mark Watson's Carpool Comedy Club, Henley-Marlow review - Nish Kumar sticks it to the Tories

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Some Kind of Heaven review - a Florida retirement community yields its secrets

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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...