July 7, 2007
RTVI Interview with Actress Yelena Romanova

Victor Toppaler (for RTVI) interviews the celebrated award-winning actress, Yelena Romanova, of the Mayakovski Academic Art Theatre in Moscow as she speaks about her upcoming production of the internationally acclaimed play, "The Past Is Still Ahead" at the Cherry Lane Theatre, written and directed by Sophia Romma.

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June 26, 2007
The Past Is Still Ahead (Cinematic Excerpt from Cherry Lane Theater)

This cinematic excerpt from the play, The Past Is Still Ahead, pays homage to Soviet Avant-Garde, penned by Sophia Romma and directed by Sergey Levchin. The play was produced at the Cherry Lane Theater (circa 2007).

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February 28, 2007
ABSOLUTE CLARITY (About the play)

Written by Sophia Romma Directed by Yuri Joffe "Absolute Clarity" by Sophia Romma, directed by Yuri Joffe--a noted, Stanislavsky prize-winning director from Moscow's Mayakovsky Academic Theater--will be presented by ArtVoice and Cinema Anastasia as an Off-Broadway production at the Players Theater, 115 Macdougal Street, January 25 to February 25. The play is loosely based on […]

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February 25, 2007
"Absolute Clarity" By Sophia Romma, Directed By Yuri Joffe

"Absolute Clarity" by Sophia Romma, directed by Yuri Joffe--a noted, Stanislavski prize-winning director from Moscow's Mayakovsky Academic Theater--will be presented by ArtVoice and Cinema Anastasia as an Off-Broadway production at the Players Theater, 115 MacDougal Street, January 31 to February 25. The play is loosely based on "She, in the Absence of Love and Death" […]

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February 12, 2007
Director Yuri Joffe's Interview with Victor Topaller (Absolute Clarity)
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February 6, 2007
Runaway Riddle (Village Voice Review)

Despite name-checking CBGB and Delancey Street, this adaptation of the Russian playwright Edvard Radzinski’s She, in the Absence of Love and Death takes place in a geographical limbo—call it Manhattan on the Moskva. Its turgid vision of corrupt judges, sex-starved moms, and freewheeling bands of jazz-rappers survives the transition into English only superficially, leaving behind an entire submerged […]

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June 26, 2006
RTVI Interview (Absolute Clarity) at the Players Theater (2006)

Russian Television Network features an interview of the premiere of Sophia Romma's play "Absolute Clarity" at the Players Theater (circa 2006), directed by Yuri Joffe of the celebrated Mayakovski Academic Art Theatre. Nina Vishneva hosts.

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April 11, 2006
'Sickle' by Sophia Romma (New York Times Review)

A few too many theatrical experiments are being conducted simultaneously in "Sickle," a drama by Sophia Romma that would be more powerful if it were less clever. The play jumps around in time, switches between real and imagined conversation, and gives one central character a distracting speech impediment that serves little purpose. Also, it's written, […]

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April 6, 2006
"Shoot Them in the Cornfields" PC2 Theater, New York City

“Shoot Them in the Cornfields” is the shattering tale of one Russian-Jewish family, spanning two love affairs and three generations. Initially the play held high promise. First, playwright Sophia Murashkovsky’s credentials are impressive, both professionally and personally. Murashkovsky, a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, is a playwright/screenwriter/poet whose […]

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April 2, 2006
"SHOOT THEM IN THE CORNFIELDS!" By Sophia Romma

DIRECTED BY YURI JOFFE OF MOSCOW'S MAYAKOVSKY ACADEMIC THEATER This play was presented April 2 to 23, 2006 by Cinema Anastasia Productions at The Producers Club Theaters (PC2 Theater), 616 9th Avenue (between 43rd and 44th Streets), NYC. "Shoot Them in the Cornfields!", a play by Sophia Murashkovsky, was directed in its world premiere in April, […]

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