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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

The Other One, BBC One review - entertaining odd-couple sitcom

Saturday, 06 June 2020 Read more...

Days of the Bagnold Summer review - wry suburban drama

Saturday, 06 June 2020 Read more...

Space Force, Netflix review - fails to launch

Friday, 29 May 2020 Read more...

Desiree Burch, Soho Theatre On Demand review - fantastical storytelling

Monday, 25 May 2020 Read more...

The Understudy online review - entertaining adaptation of David Nicholls' novel

Friday, 22 May 2020 Read more...

Lockdown Comedy 2: where to get your laughs this week

Monday, 18 May 2020 Read more...

In Search of Greatness review - Gabe Polsky's absorbing sports documentary

Friday, 15 May 2020 Read more...

Jerry Seinfeld, Netflix review - not bad for a swansong

Tuesday, 12 May 2020 Read more...

Isolation Song Contest review - a fun alternative to Eurovision

Sunday, 03 May 2020 Read more...

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

Saturday, 25 April 2020 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 22 April 2020 Read more...

The Host review - implausible suspense thriller

Thursday, 16 April 2020 Read more...

Simon Amstell, Netflix review - wisdom and wisecracks

Tuesday, 14 April 2020 Read more...

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

Saturday, 11 April 2020 Read more...

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

Monday, 06 April 2020 Read more...

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

Friday, 03 April 2020 Read more...

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You can't explain stage presence like Anoushka Shankar’s. It just "is". When she steps out in front of a completely packed Royal Albert Hall, and...

Elschenbroich, Grynyuk / Fibonacci Quartet, Edinburgh Intern...

Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk crafted a fine programme for their EIF recital, centring around Brahms’ relationship with the Schumanns....

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Fit Prince / Undersigned

The Fit Prince (who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here)), Pleasance...

Materialists review - a misfiring romcom or an undercooked s...

The Canadian-Korean director Celine Song burst onto the scene with her debut feature, Past Lives, two years ago, a bittersweet...

Album: Marissa Nadler - New Radiations

“I will fly around the world just to forget you” are the opening words of “It Hits Harder,” the first track on New Radiations. The song...

BBC Proms: Akhmetshina, LPO, Gardner review - liquid luxurie...

Water surged through this Prom from first spray to last drop....

theartsdesk Q&A: actor Leonie Benesch on playing an over...

The German actor Leonie Benesch has an issue with...

Freakier Friday review - body-swapping gone ballistic

Before Freakier Friday there were the two film versions of Freaky Friday based on Mary Rodgers’s lively, perceptive 1972 Young...

theartsdesk in Kovachevitsa - top Bulgarians and friends mak...

Performers and public alike always treasure a beautiful and, in this case, remote setting for a music festival. But people matter as much as sense...