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...

A gorgeous song exists in search of a show to match over at Bagdad Café, the 1987 film that gave the world the...

King Arthur, as every schoolgirl knows, never actually existed, so it made perfect sense that the Gabrieli Consort’s Worcester Cathedral...

Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. It seemed the right culinary equivalent to David Mamet, one of...

Already Dead’s opening cut is titled “Youth on a Spit”. As it unfolds, Willy Mason declares “I feel no pain I’ve already bled / You can’t...

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World is the most harrowing film you are ever likely to watch, but don’t let that put you off. This was a...

Now that the summer opera-house companies have pulled off staged triumphs...

Scottish singer-songwriter Dorothy Allison pretty much defines cool. Her band One Dove was the first to snare Andrew Weatherall as producer after...

It’s the trivia question no one ever thought to ask: where was the only Tennessee Williams play premiered outside America first performed? The...

Mieko Kawakami sits firmly amongst the Japanese literati for her...

ITV’s new detective mystery, Professor T, is an...