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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Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gershon, Sellars, Barbican revie...
By some strange alignment of the stars, Peter Sellars’s staged version of Orlando di Lasso’s...
Rocketman review - fabulous musically but a tad miserable to...
Rocketman opens with its hero in flamboyant stage costume stomping into a drab group therapy session. Pulling the sparkling horns off his...
Oh Sees, Tramshed, Cardiff review - breakneck wig outs
Oh Sees have long been touted of as the perfect festival band. Their racuous, high-tempo rock'n'roll always riles up the drunken swathes, even if...
Four Quartets, Barbican Theatre review - ultimate stage poet...
The first surprise is that this hasn’t been done before. The poems that comprise TS Eliot’s...
Cannes 2019: Parasite review - hilarious and horrifying
Like Snowpiercer before it, Bong Joon-ho’s rage-fuelled ...
Spice Girls, Croke Park Dublin review - uncomplicated fun
They’re back and they’re looking and sounding good - and Spice Girls mania took over Dublin’s city centre for several hours before the concert...
Emily Atack, Clapham Grand review - I'm a Celebrity......
Most people know Emily Atack from The Inbetweeners, where she played Charlotte, the object of Will's desire. More recently, she found new...
Rokia Traoré: Dream Mandé: Djata, Brighton Festival 2019 rev...
Rokia Traoré’s passage through this year’s Brighton Festival has been central, binding it to her Malian identity in a series of gigs....