Matthew Romain

Articles By Matthew Romain

'We played to the Queen of Denmark. We did a turn for Barack Obama' Sunday, 15 May 2016 Read more...	The police stopped 'To be or not to be' and asked to see our permits Saturday, 30 January 2016 Read more...
When Hamlet came to a Syrian refugee camp Sunday, 01 November 2015 Read more...

Maybe you’ve heard the Native American parable about the two...

Handel’s Theodora – voluptuously beautiful, warm-to-the-touch music, yoked to a libretto of chilly piety about Christian martyrdom in 4...

Sierra Pettengill has made the politest angry film I have seen. It has an incendiary quality that comes precisely from its calm stance towards its...

There’s something charmingly unassuming and humble about The Zombies. Nowadays their 1968 second album Odyssey and Oracle regularly...

With all the talk – and, frankly, fear – around AI and the increasing dominance of the digital world, it’s fascinating to see what dance has to...

Mansfield Park was written to be a country house opera – that...

1982 is only A Certain Ratio’s third album this century but it’s one that’s brimming with funky vibes that are more than enough to get...

How much more is there left to be said about the excellence of Succession? It’s back for a final season, and devotees will pore over...

As Inspiral Carpets play “She Comes in the Fall”, a great song and one of their signature tunes, its martial drumming drags me into my own past....

“There is another world… a way of perceiving that is chaotic and awesome and terrifying,” announces Seraphina Madsen’s cigarillo-smoking,...