philip radcliffe
Bio
Philip Radcliffe has been a theatre and music critic for many years, writing for a wide range of publications, but especially The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Bolton Evening News (where he began his journalistic career) and the Manchester Evening News. He is a long-serving member of the Manchester (formerly MEN)Theatre Awards panel. He is former Director of Communications at The University of Manchester and Adjunct Professor of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University.
Articles By Philip Radcliffe
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Music Reissues Weekly: Catch-A-Fire - Treasure Isle Ska, Top...
Two snapshots of Jamaica’s music, each catching styles associated with specific periods. The two CDs of Catch-A-Fire - Treasure Isle...
Iphigenia in Splott, Lyric Hammersmith review - raises as ma...
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Tosca, English National Opera review - a tale of two eras
Rome, 14/15 June 1800: the specifics of the original Sardou melodrama are preserved in Puccini’s thriller mixing love, lust, religion and tyranny...
The Crucible, National Theatre review - visually stunning re...
How can this beauty arise from such ugliness? The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama about the Salem witch trials of 1692, is rife with...
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris review - Lesley Manville as a Fifti...
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, based on Paul Gallico’s 1958 novel, is preposterous. But it’s as pretty as a pink cloud. The director,...
Blonde review - Marilyn Monroe thrown to the wolves
Andrew Dominik’s Blonde is an atrocity – a ghoulish biopic...
John Gabriel Borkman, Bridge Theatre review - amusing tale...
It always feels special when a play speaks so directly to an audience that you feel and hear the ripples of recognition across the auditorium. And...
Album: Björk - Fossora
Album opener “Atapos” was released as a single earlier in September, its sharply angular beats created by...
Savala Nolan: Don't Let It Get You Down review - findin...
Liminal: a word that conjures thresholds and between states. Caught between three languages – the adjective is a borrowing from the Latin...
Jews. In Their Own Words, Royal Court review - calling out a...
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