The Negro Ensemble Company presents: "The Mire" (excerpted) and "With Aaron’s Arms Around Me" (excerpted) at the Cherry Lane Theater, directed by Charles Weldon circa Dec, 2010. Misha Gutkin for Voices of America interviews the director, Charles Weldon and the playwright, Sophia Romma.

NEW YORK -- Negro Ensemble Company (www.necinc.org), America's legendary black theater company, will present "With Aaron's Arms Around Me and The Mire," an evening of two one-acts by Sophia Romma, a Russian-American playwright, both on the theme of intolerance. The first play, "With Aaron's Arms Around Me," is directed by Negro Ensemble Company's Artistic Director, […]

THE PAST IS STILL AHEAD Returns To NYC 11/27 "The Past is Still Ahead," a five-character play about Marina Tsvetaeva, Soviet Russia's most famous poet, debuted in the Cherry Lane Theater, Manhattan in December 2007. It's returning to New York November 27 for one performance (in Russian this time) at The Millennium Theatre, 10-29 Brigton […]

"The Past is Still Ahead," a five-character play about Marina Tsvetaeva, Soviet Russia's most famous poet, debuted in the Cherry Lane Theater, Manhattan in December 2007. It's returning to New York November 27 for one performance (in Russian this time) at The Millennium Theatre, 10-29 Brigton Beach Ave, Brooklyn. The play was written in English […]

On May 21, the Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow presented an outstanding cross-cultural event. A searing play about Marina Tsvetaeva, one of Russia’s most intense and uncompromising poets, who was very Russian and international herself was performed. Tsvetaeva spent much time abroad and spoke several languages. The Past Is Still Ahead premiered at the legendary Mayakovsky […]

The JCC of Manhattan Presents Sophia Romma's stage-play, "The Past Is Still Ahead" sponsored by the JCC and Zabar's, circa January, 2008. The production highlights the unconventional life of the exiled Soviet Poetess, Marina Tsvetaeva as she converses with the late great poets of our time.

Inna Bodner and The Pushkin House in London, United Kingdom, presents Sophia Romma's internationally heralded play, "The Past Is Still Ahead," which toured the United Kingdom and Ireland. The play depicts the tumultuous life of one of Soviet Russia's most notoriously infamous poet's, Marina Tsvetaeva for whom constellations are named.