The Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva endured and indulged in a life of high drama. One of her young daughters died of starvation during the famine that followed the Russian Revolution. A lover of both men and women, she followed her White Russian husband into exile in Europe, then returned after he was accused of changing […]

Sophia Romma's The Past is Still Ahead, based on a monologue by Israeli playwright Oded Be'eri, will play at Cherry Lane's Studio Theatre from 6 - 15 Dec 2007. An English-speaking troupe drawn from Moscow's Mayakovsky Academic Art Theatre will perform The Past is Still Ahead a five-character play about Marina Tsvetaeva, Soviet Russia's most famous poet. The […]

The Mayakovski Academic Art Theatre's main stage production of The Past Is Still Ahead, penned by Sophia Romma, directed by Francois Rochaix and Yuri Joffe, premiered in April of 2007. The award-winning international play exposes the turbulent symphonic life of exiled poet, Marina Tsvetaeva.

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.

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).

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 […]

"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" […]

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 […]