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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

Lockdown Comedy 1: where to get your laughs this week

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After Life series 2, Netflix review - Ricky Gervais's study of bereavement continues

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Aditi Mittal, Soho Theatre On Demand review - cows, mothers and fempowerment

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The Host review - implausible suspense thriller

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Simon Amstell, Netflix review - wisdom and wisecracks

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Clarence Clemons: Who Do I Think I Am? review - documentary about Springsteen's saxophonist

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Rachel Fairburn, Go Faster Stripe review - smart and subtle gags

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Lazy Susan, Soho Theatre On Demand review - sketch duo's ingeniously plotted show

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The Steph Show, Channel 4 review - magazine show debuts from host's front room

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Christine and the Queens/Instagram review - musical missives during lockdown

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Michelle Wolf: Joke Show, Netflix review - edgy and original material

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Mister Winner, BBC2 review - gentle comedy about one of life's losers

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Shappi Khorsandi, Soho Theatre On Demand - enjoyable run-through of her career

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Steve Martin and Martin Short, SSE Hydro Glasgow review - old friends bring a touch of vaudeville

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Tom Rosenthal, The Hawth, Crawley review - circumcision made funny

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John Shuttleworth, Leicester Square Theatre review - reflections on life in the slow lane

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Stephen review - a breathtakingly good first feature by a mu...

Stephen is the first feature film by multi-media artist Melanie Manchot and it’s the best debut film I’ve seen since Steve McQueen’s ...

Album: Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

Despite its title, Mdou Moctar’s new album is no slow-paced mournful dirge. In fact, it is louder, faster and more overtly political than any of...

Blue Lights Series 2, BBC One review - still our best cop sh...

The first season of Blue Nights was so close to ...

Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy, Wigmore Hall review - ench...

Sabine Devieilhe, as with many other great sopranos, elicits much fan worship, with no less than three encores at her recent Wigmore Hall recital...

Jonn Elledge: A History of the World in 47 Borders review -...

In A History of the World in 47 Borders, Jonn Elledge takes an ostensibly dry subject – how maps and boundaries have shaped our world –...

DVD/Blu-Ray: Priscilla

There’s a scene in Priscilla where Elvis stands above his wife, who is scrambling to put her clothes in a suitcase. Priscilla has just...

Špaček, BBC Philharmonic, Bihlmaier, Bridgewater Hall, Manch...

Billed as a “Viennese Whirl”, this programme showed that there are different kinds of music that may be known to the orchestral canon as coming...

Banging Denmark, Finborough Theatre review - lively but conf...

What would happen if a notorious misogynist actually fell in love? With a glacial Danish librarian? And decided his best means of...

Album: Fred Hersch - Silent, Listening

The previous solo piano solo album from Fred Hersch, one of the world’s great...