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...

I live in Brixton, south London. A few days ago, the borough’s aptly named Windrush Square hosted events which celebrated the contribution of the...

It takes some confidence for a first-time feature director to interrupt her essentially realistic...

Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian writer who came in from the...

Director Alice Diop read an article by Pierre Bergounioux in which he described how he began writing to draw attention to his overlooked neck of...

Could this be the summer Bayreuth finally sees a new Ring production that comes anywhere near its last great epic success, Harry Kupfer’s, which...

He’s the most haunting, at times terrifying Wozzeck I’ve seen, in Richard Jones's Welsh National Opera baked-bean-factory production, and the...

The last time that Paolo Nutini was on the public stage, he was knocking out fine blue-eyed soul and having substantial hits like “Scream (Funk my...

A few spots of rain greeted the arrival of the...

For sheer extremes of family dysfunction Theresa Rebeck’s Mad House must be aiming to set new records in American drama. The latest in a...

There’s a sharp observation, delivered in Alan Bennett’s soft tones, that sums up the reputation of the painter Eric Ravilious: “Because his...