By Maureen Hossbacher It has been a privilege and pleasure to watch the development of Derek Murphy’s play, “Dyin’ For It,” at our Irish American Writers & Artists’ Salons.  It has also been great fun, as evidenced by the torrent of laughter at The Cell on Tuesday night. The scene was brilliantly played by Maria […]

365 Women A Year Project was founded by Jess Eisenberg and Gina Scanlon. It is an international playwriting project involving over 200 women playwrights who have signed on to write plays about extraordinary women who have left an indelible mark upon history and who are changing the landscape of the present. At the Production - […]

Collaboration with League of Professional Women in Theatre/Oral History Program, Co-Chair, Sophia Romma, at the Lincoln Center Library, featuring Lynn Nottage.

      Hossein Fassa’s Director’s Note   I have often been excited and transfixed by the magical communal aspect of the theatre mostly because it entails the delicate, intricate process of the communing of a group of nomadic folks with vastly disparate backgrounds yet a shared common goal: to bring ideas to life with themselves as the instruments. […]

Enthusiasts and admirers of musical theatre and pop culture caught an enthralling overdose of Steven Schwartz on April 16th, when a star studded ensemble of one hundred performers gathered together at legendary Symphony Space on the Upper West Side to witness “Wall to Wall Stephen Schwartz,” a free eight-hour musical smorgasbord for the discriminate palate. […]

A medieval allegory unfolds as a mystical Voodoo Body Snatcher arrives at the occult after-life bar on a mission to execute a psychiatrist committed to his personal bedlam. The anti-hero and his Mad-Hatter co-conspirators are entangled in a perverse political hoopla as they fight for their survival in the face of the mighty Grim Reaper’s […]

Two one-act plays by Sophia Romma at the Cherry Lane Theater examine relationships that span cultures. Presented by the Negro Ensemble Company and directed by Charles Weldon. From The New York Times

The NYU Alumni Association (NYUAA) represents all NYU alumni, from every NYU school and department—a community nearly half-a-million strong. The diverse and active NYUAA Board of Directors is made up of alumni volunteers who steer the Association in their mission to engage and support alumni. Sophia Romma (TSOA ’95, ’97) is a veteran member of the Board and is […]