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...
Wilko: Love and Death and Rock'n'Roll, Southwark P...
Resurrecting the origins of old rock stars is becoming quite the thing, After cinema’s Elton John, Freddie Mercury, Bob Dylan and...
The End review - surreality in the salt mine
The End, a quasi-musical from Joshua Oppenheimer, who has previously only produced ...
Playhouse Creatures, Orange Tree Theatre review - jokes, shi...
Creatives – or creatures? In the 1660s, women – having been banned from working as actors in previously more...
Album: Perfume Genius - Glory
I can’t stop reading and re-reading the review copy I got of a new book, out next week. Liam Inscoe-Jones’s ...
La finta giardiniera, The Mozartists, Cadogan Hall review -...
Just now, the notion of a long-term project that concludes in 2041 sounds like an optimistic bet on the far future worthy of some 18th-century...
La Cocina review - New York restaurant drama lingers too lon...
La Cocina is one of those films that cuts an excellent trailer, succinctly delivering just enough characters, plot and visual...
Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station - Arcadia
It’s been 14 years since Alison Krauss and Union Station released an album – 2011’s Paper Aeroplane. The world’s shed a few skins since...
Batsashvili, Hallé, Wong, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester revie...
Mariam Batsashvili, the young virtuosa pianist from Georgia, is a star. No doubt about that. Trained at the Liszt Academy in Weimar and winner of...
Blu-ray: Lifeforce
Tobe Hooper changed cinema with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) for pennies in rancid Southern heat, but came closest to a mainstream...