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.
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Salt Cosmologies, Somerset House and The Hedge of Halomancy,...
The railways that we built in India may be well known, but I bet...
Alterations, National Theatre review - high emotional costs...
Plays about the Windrush Generation are no longer a rarity, but it’s still unusual for revivals of black British classics to get the full...
Uprising, Glyndebourne review - didactic community opera sup...
The score is effective, and rewarding to perform, but derivative. The libretto uses every cliché, or truism, about save-the-planet youth activism...
Music Reissues Weekly: Kraftwerk - Autobahn at 50
“German space rock group is already shooting up the charts with their debut US LP. One of few continental groups able to make this musical mode...
Mahan Esfahani, Wigmore Hall review - shimmering poise and r...
To watch Mahan Esfahani play the harpsichord is to watch a philosopher at work. While...
Album: Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between
Brighton metallers Architects have weathered various tribulations in their almost 20-year career. Formed by twins Dan and Tom Searle, after...
Jopy/Lemonsuckr/King of May, Green Door Store, Brighton revi...
There’s something exhilarating about seeing bands right at the very, very dawn of their careers. Will they be headlining the Houston Astrodome in...
Gromes, Hallé, Chauhan, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review...
A cello concerto received its UK premiere in Manchester last night – almost 100 years after it was written. It’s by Maria Herz, a German-Jewish...
Bergerac, U&Drama review - the Jersey 'tec is born...
They stopped making the BBC’s original Bergerac in 1991, so you can hardly complain that this reboot is premature. John Nettles became...