mon 15/09/2025

Veronica Lee

Bio
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

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

Zoe Lyons, Touring - midlife, without the crisis

Read more...

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

Read more...

Marcus Brigstocke, Touring review - modern manhood laid bare

Read more...

Matt Forde, Touring review - politics, poo and Viagra

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

Best of 2024: Comedy

Read more...

Jamie Foxx, Netflix Special review - doctors and divine intervention

Read more...

Ricky Gervais, Touring review - new show, not-so new gags

Read more...

Kemah Bob, Soho Theatre review - Thailand, massage and mental health

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - comedy rock band f...

That difficult second documentary – or if you will, “rockumentary” – seems to have been especially challenging for...

Not Your Superwoman, Bush Theatre review - powerful tribute...

The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and beautifully acted two-hander...

Music Reissues Weekly: Robyn - Robyn 20th-Anniversary Editio...

Sometimes, record labels don’t like what those on their roster have recorded. Such was the case with BMG Sweden and Robin Carlsson who, as Robyn,...

Album: Twenty One Pilots - Breach

For the past decade, the Ohio alternative superstars Twenty One Pilots have cultivated a deep lore starting with 2015’s Blurryface, and...

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale review - an attemptedly eleg...

It can be a hostage to fortune to title anything “grand”, and so it proves with the last gasp of Julian Fellowes’s everyday story of...

BBC Proms: Ehnes, Sinfonia of London, Wilson review - aspect...

Critics (including this one) casually refer to John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London as an all-star outfit, an army made up of generals. This week I...

Album: Ed Sheeran - Play

“It’s a long way up from rock bottom/There’s been times I felt I could fall further.” So runs the opening line of Ed Sheeran’s eighth studio album...

Presteigne Festival 2025 review - new music is centre stage...

If you were a devotee of Dmitri Shostakovich whose only opportunity to attend some live performances marking this year’s 50th anniversary of his...

Islands review - sunshine noir serves an ace

From its ambiguous opening shot onwards, writer/director Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands is a tricksy animal, which doesn’t just keep...