Interview with Sophia Romma, playwright and poet. Author of The Past is Still Ahead. At The Midtown International Theatre Festival

In “The Past Is Still Ahead” by Sophia Romma, one of Russia’s most ill-fated and controversial cult poets of the twentieth century, Marina Tsvetaeva, revisits the tumultuously tragic and sexy events of her life-just before she succumbs to “suicide” at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police in 1941 while exiled in Siberia. The play will be presented by […]

“The Past Is Still Ahead” premiered at the legendary Mayakovsky Academic Art Theater in Moscow on April 25, 2007, directed by Francois Rochaix (of Theatre de Carouge, Geneva) and Yuri Joffe (of the Mayakovsky Academic Art Theater). Its American debut was presented by The Past is Stilll Ahead, Inc. at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2007, […]

The 14th Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival presents “The Past Is Still Ahead” at The Jewel Box Theatre (New York, circa July, 2013), written and directed by Sophia Romma. The award-winning play exposes the ill-fated, sexy turbulent life of exiled Russian Poetess, Marina Tsvetaeva. www.midtownfestival.org

An emigrant feels like a circus man who is traveling the endless doroga, Russian for “the road.” The sins of your past are inconsequential and your future is in limbo. It’s a human condition that is painted poetically in “Cabaret Émigré,” a new play by Sophia Romma, directed by Charles Weldon.

by Jarrett Lyons The experience of an emigre is an often misunderstood one. Sophia Romma, was born to an engineer father and a microbiologist mother in Russia. By the time she arrived in New York City in 1979 at the age of six, she was the daughter of parents whose resumes had expanded to gas […]

A TALE OF TRANSIENT DISLOCATED MESHUGGAH SOULS SHATTERING THE NOSTALGIC PRISM OF THEIR PAST. Cabaret Émigré is a tale of the thirst for liberty which unfolds through the epic journey of displaced Eastern European, African, and Latino Émigrés. American, European, and Nigerian history provides the backdrop for this demanding and complex romp through time. Cabaret […]

Sophia Romma’s Cabaret Emigre officially opens off-Broadway on November 3. Directed by Charles Weldon and presented by the Negro Ensemble Company, this unique theatrical event will continue at the the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row through November 18. Cabaret Emigre tells the tale of transient dislocated Meshuggah souls from all walks of life. Their testimonials are told as […]