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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

Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the Fringe

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Kieran Hodgson, Soho Theatre review - a love affair soured by Trump

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Sarah Silverman, Netflix Special review - finding the funny in losing a parent

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Dara Ó Briain, Soho Theatre Walthamstow review - master storyteller spins a family yarn

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Mr Swallow: Show Pony, Richmond Theatre review - magic tricks and mayhem

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The Comedy About Spies, Noel Coward Theatre review - 'Goes Wrong' team hit the spot again

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Zoe Lyons, Touring - midlife, without the crisis

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Greg Davies, Brighton Dome review - chocolate bars and errant bumholes

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Marcus Brigstocke, Touring review - modern manhood laid bare

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Matt Forde, Touring review - politics, poo and Viagra

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Harry Hill, Wilton's Music Hall review - madcap comic on terrific form

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Amy Gledhill, Soho Theatre review - delightfully bawdy take on serious subjects

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Russell Howard Live at the Palladium review - feelgood philosophy with added smut

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Ben Elton, Duke of York's Theatre review - big subjects, big laughs

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Chris McCausland, Winchester Theatre Royal review - Strictly winner as cheerfully cynical as ever

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Gala Preview Show, De Montfort Hall review - Leicester Comedy Festival nicely teed up

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Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne review - perceptive humanit...

Over 100 years ago, John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunit...

The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...

Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the Fringe

Appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been an expensive gig for comics. But while stand-ups may need only a microphone to ply...

Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

The first five-and-a-half minutes of Sunwise’s opening track “Dùsgadh / Waking" are taken up by a drone. Played on the Scottish small...

Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

Intimate Apparel, Donmar Warehouse review - stirring story o...

The corset is an unlikely star of the latest Lynn Nottage play to arrive at the...

theartsdesk Q&A: director Andreas Dresen on his anti-Naz...

Andreas Dresen directs socially engaged realist films that invariably relay personal and political messages; the result can be tough but is...

Hercules, Theatre Royal Drury Lane review - new Disney stage...

Many years ago, reviewing pantomime for the first time, I recall looking around in the stalls. My brain was saying, “This is...