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...
SAS: Rogue Heroes, Series 2, BBC One review - Paddy Mayne...
Having carved a swathe of terror and destruction through the Axis forces in North Africa, the SAS return for a second series (again written by...
Best of 2024: Classical music concerts
As always, great concerts have outnumbered great opera productions over a year, and all of our national orchestras can be proud of their record. I...
Best of 2024: Dance
In an ideal world an end-of-year roundup would applaud only new ventures – fresh productions that you may curse for having missed but whose...
Best of 2024: Books
Billie Holiday sings again, Olivia Laing tends to her garden, and Biran Klaas takes a chance: our reviewers discuss their favourite...
Albums of the Year 2024: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild...
Young eldritch junkie Nick Cave would have struggled to predict his maturity as a font of wry and sacred wisdom, or the fathomless loss he...
The Split: Barcelona, BBC One review - a soapy special with...
Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight...
Spence, Perez, Richardson, Wigmore Hall review - a Shakespe...
“O stay and hear,” sings Twelfth Night’s jester Feste in his song “O mistress mine”, “your true love’s coming,/ That can sing both high...
Best of 2024: Comedy
Looking back over the past 12 months, it struck me how it has been the shows fashioned from personal stories that have stayed with me. It wasn't...