tue 01/07/2025

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

Angry Alan, Soho Theatre review - superb monologue about the rise of 'meninism'

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Fleabag, Series 2 review - a standing ovation

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Lou Sanders, Soho Theatre review - shame put under the spotlight

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Cyprus Avenue, Royal Court Theatre review - Stephen Rea is utterly compelling

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Sheeps, Soho Theatre review - sketch comedy with a touch of the surreal

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Adam Riches Is The Guy Who..., Drink, Shop & Do review - super-suave Lothario on the prowl

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Lost Voice Guy, Soho Theatre review - Britain's Got Talent winner finds the funny in disability

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When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Dorfman Theatre review - Cate Blanchett's underwhelming debut at the National

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Daniel Sloss, Leicester Square Theatre review - toxic masculinity examined

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James Acaster, Phoenix Theatre review - a masterclass in comedy

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Leicester Comedy Festival Gala Preview Show review - an entertaining mixed bag

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Catastrophe, Series 4, Channel 4 review - final series starts strongly

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The Catherine Tate Show Live, Wyndham's Theatre review - sketch show favourites on stage

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Best of 2018: Comedy

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Upstart Crow, BBC Two review - Shakespeare does Dickens in seasonal tale

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Caroline, or Change, Playhouse Theatre review - Sharon D Clarke is superlative

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Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne review - perceptive humanit...

Over 100 years ago, John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

In 2019, French-Tunisian journalist and documentary filmmaker Hind Meddeb flew to Sudan after the overthrow of hated dictator Omar al-Bashir,...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunit...

The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...

Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the Fringe

Appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been an expensive gig for comics. But while stand-ups may need only a microphone to ply...

Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

The first five-and-a-half minutes of Sunwise’s opening track “Dùsgadh / Waking" are taken up by a drone. Played on the Scottish small...

Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

Intimate Apparel, Donmar Warehouse review - stirring story o...

The corset is an unlikely star of the latest Lynn Nottage play to arrive at the...

theartsdesk Q&A: director Andreas Dresen on his anti-Naz...

Andreas Dresen directs socially engaged realist films that invariably relay personal and political messages; the result can be tough but is...