fri 03/05/2024

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

Death on the Nile review - Kenneth Branagh flounders again as Poirot

Read more...

Matt Forde: The Political Party review - topical stand-up and chat

Read more...

Nish Kumar, Soho Theatre review - how a bad gig turned into a terrific show

Read more...

Alan Carr, Milton Keynes Theatre review - comic keeps it relentlessly light

Read more...

Russell Howard, Netflix special review - joyous return to live performance

Read more...

Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Birmingham Hippodrome review - Jason Donovan makes his panto debut

Read more...

One-Woman Show review - Liz Kingsman's spot-on spoof

Read more...

The Apprentice, Series 16, BBC One review - will they never learn?

Read more...

Pantomime 2021 round-up 2: TV stars in the spotlight

Read more...

Best of 2021: Comedy

Read more...

Pantomime 2021 round-up 1: a great Dame and two debuts

Read more...

Shagged. Married. Annoyed. Live, O2 Arena review - popular podcast lost in translation

Read more...

Alfie Brown, Soho Theatre review - a contrarian on great form

Read more...

King Richard review - Will Smith gives an affecting performance as Richard Williams

Read more...

Ahir Shah, Soho Theatre review - lockdown laid bare

Read more...

Iliza Shlesinger, Eventim Apollo review - feminism, the internet - and bras

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

CVC, Concorde 2, Brighton review - they have the songs and t...

The joy of CVC, when they catch fire, is the zing of gatecrashing a gang of cheeky, very individual personalities having their own private party....

Hallé, Wong, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - meeting a...

Kahchun Wong, the Hallé’s principal conductor from the coming autumn season, presided in the Bridgewater Hall for the first time yesterday since...

Extract: Pariah Genius by Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair is a writer, film-maker, and psychogeographer extraordinaire. He began his career in the poetic avant-garde of the Sixties and...

Nezouh review - seeking magic in a war

The 21st century learnt afresh about the reality of carpet-bombed cities thanks to the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011. And the...

Album: Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism

This album has a lot to live up to. Its predecessor Future Nostalgia came along just as the Covid crisis was properly kicking...

Laughing Boy, Jermyn Street Theatre review - impassioned agi...

On the morning of the press show of Laughing Boy, the BBC news website’s top story was about the abuse of children with learning...

Guildhall School Gold Medal 2024, Barbican review - quirky-w...

While the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra were performing Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie – weirdly, despite its size...

Album: Sia - Reasonable Woman

Sia has well and truly stepped into her power. Gone are the days of releasing songs that were pitched to megastars but turned down (“This Is...

Minority Report, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre review - ill-judg...

Towards the end of David Haig’s new adaptation of Philip...

Mitski, Usher Hall, Edinburgh review - cool and quirky, yet...

It was her 2018 album Be the Cowboy which saw Mitski propelled to stardom status. Laurel Hell, which followed in 2022...