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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

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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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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Music Reissues Weekly: Chelsea - The Step-Forward Years

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Please Don't Destroy: Treasure of Foggy Mountain review...

Despite an ominous title, there’s always fair weather in the debut comic adventure film featuring Please Don’t Destroy, a NYC sketch...

Wonka review - a confusingly mixed bag of bonbons

As the 117 minutes of Wonka tick by, the question it poses gains momentum: who is this film actually for? Children of all ages...

Smyrna review - Greece at twilight

The Smyrna Catastrophe of 1922, in which tens of thousands of Greeks and Armenians were slaughtered by Turkish soldiers, is a topical subject...

The Peasants review - earthbound animation

After a few years of cinema, the wow factor of seeing actual things moving about on a screen wore off a bit and showmen saw that jump cuts...

Mathias Énard: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers'...

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Album: Samara Joy - A Joyful Holiday

This six-track EP on Verve/UMG brings the breakthrough year of 2023 for Samara Joy to a neat close. In February she won two Grammys, as Best New...

Monica review - sombre American drama

There’s a rich seam of folk stories about changelings, infants snatched from home and replaced with a substitute child, to the horror and...